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A History of the County of Somerset
… they follow a lane from the Yeovil road up Hedgecock hill. This boundary was marked at its northern end by a stone, 2 and the hill itself was divided from neighbouring Montacute by a … the northern defences of the encampment on Ham or Hamdon Hill. From there the boundary runs westwards, a stream …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Great Haseley and Shirburn. Between the two lies Poppet's Hill, probably deriving its name from the Old English words … from 234 feet by Wheatfield Park to 433 feet at Gilton Hill or Gyldon as it was called in 1517 2 and continuing to … was purchased in 1769 from the guardians of Elizabeth Hill, a granddaughter of the eldest daughter of Frances …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… side of the stream, where it is commemorated by Castle Hill, on the summit of which is a memorial to Captain Cook, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of 287 ft. above the ordnance datum in the east. Stour Hill, a little to the east of the river, is partly in this … 1872. It had passed before 1876 to James Holcroft of Red Hill House, Stourbridge. He was succeeded in March 1894 by … Thatcher (date unknown); John Oldnall, will, 1690; Richard Hill, will, proved 1730; and Thomas Pratt, will, proved 1802, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… village, situated, as well as the church, on the side of a hill, which rises from the bank of the Thames; westward from … bounded by the river. The parish consists of continued hill and dale, the views of the Thames, and the opposite … the river are beautiful; behind which it stretches over hill and dale a long way southward, over a good strong soil …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… or bridle road from Faversham to the top of the latter hill, goes close by the north side of it. The walls of it …
A History of the County of Warwick
… with its hamlets of Fletchamstead, Canley, and Tile Hill, was included within the city boundary in 1927, and … and so to the road which divides 'Helynhull' [in Hill] from Stivichall. Then by the 'Merdenesyche' 3 into the … Wood and on the high ground north of this round Tile Hill. The site eventually chosen for the Cistercian Abbey of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 120 m. in the north where there are ridges of Sharp's Hill beds and Chipping Norton limestone. 2 The slate beds … irregular ellipse from the junction of the Riding and Pond Hill in the north to the junction of Brook Lane and Church … church and in the west around Boot Street and Laughton's Hill, connected by High Street. The number of 18thcentury …