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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… house; and about a mile eastward almost surrounded with wood, and just above the village of Newnham, the mansion of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Fitz Jocelin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to impark his wood, 27 and in 1228 leave was obtained by his successor …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Donhead St. Andrew in 1768. The land included Berry Wood Copse and Privett Copse, and closes of meadow west of … Higher Berry Court farm had no land in the parish. Berry Wood Copse, 33 a., and other lands formerly part of Lower … Donhead St. Andrew parish. Leigh Court farm had a 9a. wood in 1819. 225 There were 315 a. of woodland in the parish …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… altered in the 19th and 20th. On the east side of Berry Wood Lane east of the church, Pilgrims Cottage incorporates a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… roof may be original. This was the farm-house mentioned by Wood in 1657 as belonging to Mr. Clerk 'which some say was … traces of other similar windows and of a stone doorway. Wood speaks of the school-house being built about 1654, and … in the 17th century also revealed a small vault which Wood seems to have considered a place of punishment. In the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… hills, which rise to the fir-tree clad heights of Redlands Wood, and to Anstiebury and Leith Hill beyond. The lower … Hanger, on Lower Merriden Farm, west of Redlands Wood. 8 The town of Dorking used to consist of many houses of … was a congregation of Presbyterians under the Rev. John Wood, late rector of North Chapel in Sussex, meeting at his …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… ' ill-disposed and myschievous persons' inclosed Dorney Wood with great hedges quickset and deep ditches and built a house in the wood wherein 'divers arrant theves' resorted with his consent … rights in return for a fixed payment, 100 loads of wood and the use of the manor-house. 47 Thomas Garrard had …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of a chancel, nave and modern south vestry, with a western wood steeple. Some of the walling of the nave appears to date … bellturret is of modern woodwork and is supported on heavy wood posts in the nave and capped by a foursided spire …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… north side of the valley at Woodlands farm and Dowdeswell wood and on the south side of the valley at Upper Dowdeswell … (near the head of the Coombs), Rossley, and Lineover wood. 16 Plans to employ the Chelt's headwater springs to … The slopes of the Chelt valley are well wooded. Dowdeswell wood, which occupies the bulk of the land within the parish …