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A History of the County of Oxford
… 24 Richard Paul Jodrell from this time made it his country house, laying out the grounds around the house, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the long narrow parishes of the Wiltshire chalk country. From the low-lying clays in the north, the land … the lowland clays and the higher chalk scarps of downland country, and which no doubt were organized much as were the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… lath of Shipway. THE PARISH lies in an unpleasant dreary country, having the look of poverty throughout it, the soil …
A History of the County of Bedford
… sharply to the north, where there is a stretch of flat country not rising much above 150 ft., formed by the Vale, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the Stone-street way, where it is a dreary and barren country of rough grounds, covered with woods, scrubby … of which are as wild, and in as rough a state as the country they dwell in. Near the southern boundary of the … there is a tract of fertilelands and meadows, and the country becoming far from unpleasant, is as well as the rest …
A History of the County of Worcester
… trending to the west, with fine views across the broken country beyond. There have been coal-pits at Pensax for more …
A History of the County of Surrey
… parish, slightly rising ground conspicuous over the lower country, is said by tradition (which is probably true) to …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is a beautiful, and for this inclosed part of the country, an extensive plain, being about three miles in … and below the hill a stiff strong clay, in a very miry country, and thick hedgerows interspersed with quantities of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… that the master of Pembroke might use the Hall as a country retreat, but must never sub-let it. 284 The then …
A History of the County of Rutland
… shortly afterwards. During the disturbed conditions of the country in the reign of Edward II, John Hakluyt, keeper of …