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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… than 10,000 Scotch cattle are annually brought to Brough Hill fair, whence great numbers are driven towards the rich … a stream tributary to the Avon has its source in Lansdown Hill, and flows through the village, near which it is crossed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… In nave on westernmost pier of N. arcade, (1) to Emery Hill, 1677, white marble enriched cartouche with …
Old and New London
… to distinguish it from the Abbey of Grace on Tower Hill, called "Eastminster;" Maitland, however, proves this to …
Old and New London
… which wound its way from Buckingham Palace by Constitution Hill, Piccadilly, St. James's Street, Pall Mall, Charing …
Survey of London
… 1849 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Rowland Hill, the first pastor of the Surrey Chapel in Blackfriars …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in which the steep-sided, flat-topped Corse Wood Hill is prominent. The hundred of Westminster (lower …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1 Westminster Abbey got the whole of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Corse, 2 Elmstone, Hardwicke, 3 Hasfield, … a total of 130 hides, while the 4 hides in Ashton under Hill and 2 in Stoke Orchard that were similarly attached to … as Tibblestone hundred (in which the rest of Ashton under Hill and Stoke Orchard lay) 7 a total of 70. This suggests …
Old and New London
… stood precisely, though a modern writer places it on Tower Hill. For ourselves we can only say that we have not been …
Old and New London
… GloverWilliam Gifford. The origin of the word "Tot-hill" is probably the "toot," or beacon hill, from the Welch word "twt," a spring or rising; and the … Mercury, adding that the "Tot," "Teut," "Tut," or "Thoth" Hill, often, by the way, styled "Tuttle" and "Tut-hill," was …