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A History of the County of Oxford
… (i.e. willow beds) and windmilhill. 5 The windmill on the hill in Catsbrayn Field must once have been an important … Baldon Row. Parsonage Farm lies to the south by Pebble Hill; at the end of the 19th century it was a group of four … Baldon. In the first place, its position on its commanding hill is more central and therefore more likely to be chosen …
A History of the County of Surrey
… extremity of the parish, and in the south stands Hill House, the manor-house of 1802, 4 which afterwards … on the site of the capital messuage known in 1802 as Hill House. 79 There was one dovecote here in 1314, 80 two …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Northallerton to Boroughbridge on the east. On a small hill at the south end of the village there was an elaborate … description of the site is rather misleading. There is no hill properly so called; the general level of the plateau is … it is one of these escarpments which Leland describes as a hill. Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 65, m. 16. Cal. Pat. …
Magna Britannia
… Nearly half a mile from the church, on the summit of a hill, is the shell of a chapel dedicated to St. Michael. … the deanery of Totton, is situated on the side of a steep hill, on the banks of the Dart, about eight miles from …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Brook, to about 230 ft. The road from Whetstone to Mill Hill runs through the parish from east to west along the … road, towards Laurel Farm. A short distance further up the hill westwards is the church of St. Andrew, on the north side … Andrew The parish church of ST. ANDREW, which stands on a hill in the middle of the village, consists of a chancel with …
A History of the County of Bedford
… well wooded. Opposite the 'Cross Keys' is a considerable hill known as the 'Castle,' the slopes of which are covered …
A History of the County of Hertford
… canal; Upper Dunsley, near the Park Estate; Hastoe, on the hill in the south; and Tring Grove, on the east. The parish … century were Samuel Collins, doctor and author, and Robert Hill, born at Miswell hamlet, a poor plough boy, who by his … exchange the 100 acres so awarded for land at Mortimer's Hill, containing 10 acres 1 rood 23 poles or thereabouts, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a separate Act of 1752, had improved the road from Tinhead Hill to the Round Stone in Trowbridge and extended it through … and granary, were on lease to a Mr. Drinkwater at a rack rent of 12. 12 s., and the other part, including the … offered for sale the mill, adjacent dwelling-house, 'rack field', engines of 100 h.p., and other property, …