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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and there was an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery nearby at Dam Hill. 12 Trumpington has been relatively populous since … Lane joins the high street. At that site, called Cross Hill, had once stood the village cross, put up by John … 369 later Kneighton, near the Hills Road, and Foulden Hill to the south-west. In the 1790s the parish was supposed …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… dun, or dune, in the Saxon language signifying a hill, and Stealle, a place. Indeed this seems to have been … Elizabeth the eldest, married Sir John Stede, of Stede-hill) the manor of Tunstall was, among others, allotted to … esq. of Norfolk, the only son of Thomas Astley, esq. of Hill Morton and Melton Constable, in Norfolk, by his first …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… main part of the village. 8 The principal spring on Chalk hill, in the north on the east side of the Turkdean valley, … the village by following a route south-westwards down Kite hill into the Turkdean valley and along the line of the … 82 A pair of cottages standing at Smith's (formerly Hill) barn in the east of the parish in 1851 83 had been …
A History of the County of Bedford
… is well wooded, and includes Allebones Spinney, Picts' Hill Gorse, Davis's Spinney, Dobbin Spinney, Gullet Wood and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… which stretch northwards to the foot of St. Catherine's Hill and are bounded on the east and north-west by the Roman …
A History of the County of Warwick
… is formed by the road running along the ridge of Edge Hill, at a height of about 700 ft. From here the ground falls sharply to the west, and on the steep side of the hill near Sunrising was at one time a figure of a horse, cut … the road from Banbury to Stratford-on-Avon descends the hill; it then crosses the parish, running north-west for …
Magna Britannia
… the harbour. There are some embankments on the brow of the hill which overhangs the village of King's Weare, said to … Heath barton was successively in the families of Langdon, Hill, Dowrish, and Pollard. It is now the property of James …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Portway or Icknield Street, and then climbs White Horse Hill. 'There it stands,' wrote Hughes, 'right up above all … above the sea, and the boldest, bravest shape for a chalk hill that you ever saw. 8 It is crowned by Uffington Castle, … the rampart of the camp, and on the northwest slope of the hill, the famous White Horse is cut in the turf. 10 'Right …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… manor-house of Ufton Robert could formerly be seen on the hill halfway between the Court and St. Peter's Church. 11 A …