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A History of the County of Hertford
… of the whole extent. 1 There are large patches of wood in the higher part of the parish: Easneye Wood on the north-west, Newgate Wood and Black Bushes on the north-east. The parish lies on …
A History of the County of Hertford
… chiefly in the extreme west of the parish where Golding's Wood is situated. The soil is mixed on a subsoil of chalk and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of flint stones; in the western part there is some coppice wood. The church and village through which the road leads … to William Skrene, from which name it was alienated to Wood, in whose descendants it remained until the latter end of the reign of king Henry VII. when Thomas Wood passed it away to Robert Barefoot. He died in the 1st …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and 21 coscez who shared 8 ploughs. There were 3 a. of wood, 60 a. of meadow, and pasture a league long by half a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… broadens out to form a stony plateau around Stanton Great Wood. 5 East again, the ground falls away to between 200 and … stands on the rising ground to the west of Stanton Great Wood, just above the 300-ft. contour, and between two springs … derived from the O.E. wudu-pyrige, 'the pear-tree near the wood', 12 and it is interesting to note that in the 17th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… survive: they include a cottage at the west end of Stanton wood, a possibly late 18th-century pair of cottages and … near Lower Stanton. At the north-west corner of Stanton wood a barn was built, 59 and a pair of cottages was built … was sold separately in 1972 103 and in 1989 was a hotel. Wood Barn farm, 128 a., was bought in 1920 by Frank Hughes. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Didbrook, and Hailes. 3 The parish includes the hamlets of Wood Stanway (a mile south of Stanway village) and Taddington … the parish to 975 ft. at the highest point near Lidcombe Wood, and the east side of the parish lies at about 800 ft. … crossing the south part of the parish just north of Wood Stanway. The main source of the River Windrush rises …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… names. 62 In the 1570s the lease was acquired by Edward Wood (d. 1599) of Fulbourn, 63 also lord of Sternes manor, … perhaps Simon's widow and son, sold Sternes to Edward Wood, 99 who acquired two other Stapleford farms. Dying in … 100 a clerk of the signet, knighted in 1603. 101 Sir John Wood dispersed those lands by sale and mortgage. 102 In 1626 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… wooded. In 1603 parishioners were accustomed to take wood and ferns from Grovely forest c. 3 km. to the south. …