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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… number of coins, were discovered in 1738: higher up the hill are the remains of an ancient town. Welford (St. … are some good gravel-pits. The village is seated upon a hill. The Grand Junction canal passes through the parish, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of the parish, on a steep-sided spur known as Downtown Hill, on clays and silts at 168 m. above OD. Air photographs … and silts at 152 m. above OD, on the crest of a small hill. Air photographs (in NMR) show a possible double-ditched …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was a longer building with a thatched roof. 14 J. H. Hill (180986), Rector of Cranoe and author of a History of … copies of marriage settlement. Complete Peerage, v. 6012. Hill, Gartree, i. 324. Kelly's Handbk. to the Official … P. W. Phillimore, i. 261. Welham par. recs. in church; cf. Hill, Gartree, i. 333. Poor Law Abstract, 1803, 2567; cf. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… nearly destroyed by fire, and rebuilt on the slope of a hill nearly a mile northward from the navigable river Nene. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… North East, South East, Town Side, Upper, West, South Hill, Calwell Hill, Ryeborough Hill, Neasdale, Wells Hill and North Side Fields. The whole …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Its slopes and those of its northern foothills, Maddock's Hill (280 metres), the Ercall (265 metres), and Lawrence's Hill ( c. 215 metres), descend steeply northwards and … frequented in the Bronze Age, 62 was occupied by a large hill fort in the Iron Age, 63 presumably the pre-Roman …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… opened c. 1822 at Ketleybrook 95 and in 1835 at Overley Hill. 96 Watling Street west of Pottersbank and the … Wellington-Coalbrookdale turnpike road at Lawley to Ball's Hill in Dawley. 13 The new length and its continuation to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 67 and Walcot waste, 68 and in the east around Buttington hill. 69 Leegomery township had three open fields: Mack field … 70 were being quarried at the Ercall and Lawrence's Hill, both in Watling Street township, by 1882. 71 In 1982 … there were similar quarries at the Ercall and at Maddock's Hill 72 nearby (opened 1936). 73 Sandpits at Ketleysands were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the boys and girls moved to a new building at Constitution Hill in 1855. 83 There were 288 pupils in 1851. 84 In 1876 … In 1897 the infants moved to new buildings at Constitution Hill, where there were 440 places (including infants') by … was held in the parish hall, two others at Constitution Hill in classrooms made available by the county council. 97 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1539. 87 In 1544 the Crown sold Walcot to Sir Rowland Hill 88 (d. 1561) 89 and it was from 1549, at latest, … Henry Nevill, Lord Bergavenny, sold the hay to Sir Rowland Hill and Thomas Leigh, aldermen of London. In the same year Hill acquired Leigh's share and conveyed the whole estate to …