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A History of the County of Warwick
… the location of the Clerk holding in 1410-11, near Hall Hill and Ward Waste, suggests that the house and fields were … as of manorial status, as were the Hall Place and Hall Hill holdings. As in Coundon and Foleshill, the ancient open … 1410-11. 87 Part of Troughton's estate, and Lamb's Scotch Hill farm immediately to the north, were the only parts of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the rivers to two low hills, on one of which stood Pinley Hill Farm. The railway from Coventry to Rugby runs across the … hands of the Aston family until the 17th century. Edward Hill leased the manor from Sir Walter Aston (and the tithes … were Richard Hopkins, Humphrey Lowe, and a second Edward Hill. 47 The principal holding in the 19th century was that …
A History of the County of Warwick
… may have been the Hall Close or Hall Piece (also called Hill Close) which was listed in surveys of the glebe from … 19th century there was a small cotton-weaving factory, at Hill Top, north of the Sowe road. It failed, quite …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the modern name is uncertain. 'Walegra' or 'Wallgrave Hill' was mentioned about 1611 as a local topographical … 40 which was presumably the same as the modern Walsgrave Hill. Isolated references to the parish as 'Sowe or … to the Sowe, and beyond the valley are Walsgrave Hill and Walsgrave Hill Farm. To the north the land rises …
A History of the County of Warwick
… sold it in 1722 to the statesman and diplomat, Richard Hill of Hawkstone (Salop). After Hill's death in 1727 the estate came by a settlement to his nephew, Rowland Hill (created a baronet in the same year), and was held by …
A History of the County of Durham
… wall divided the civil from the ecclesiastical part of the hill. The gateway crossing the North Bailey was later annexed …
A History of the County of Durham
… by him at Lumley and of his house at Harwell-on-the-Hill. The house numbered 12 on the same side of the street is … the church of St. Giles, which stood on the summit of a hill north-east of the city, gathering round it, as time went … growing band of supporters and took up his position on the hill-top a mile from castle and cathedral, where a suburb had …
A History of the County of Durham
… to the cathedral. Upon this the Archbishop descended the hill and made his way to the church of St. Nicholas, which … the king was on his way to the great triumph of Halidon Hill he stopped at Durham, where a quaint episode described … towards Berwick, near which the English revived at Halidon Hill the success of Dupplin. Bishop Bury succeeded Beaumont …
A History of the County of Durham
… beacons was arranged, Gateshead signalling to Pittington Hill, and Pittington to Durham. 223 Otherwise, too, it was a …
Magna Britannia
… manor of St. Nicholas, extending over part of St. David's hill, &c. &c., to John Haydon, of St. Mary Ottery, and Thomas …