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A History of the County of Berkshire
… 5,897 acres, lying along the ridge which divides the Vale of the White Horse from the low land lying about the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… slope of the Chiltern Hills and stretches down to the Vale of Aylesbury in the north. In the upland part of the … is chalk 1 and the surface soil chalk and flints. In the Vale the subsoil is Upper Greensand and Gault 2 and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 27 In the buildings of Great Washbourne, lying in the vale but close to the Cotswolds, the timber-framing and … and a thatched roof, representing the tradition of the vale, but its end wall is of rubble. One cottage, formerly …
A History of the County of Northampton
… is seated on high ground commanding a view over a fine vale of pastureland, 1 miles south-east from the Castle Ashby …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the present Cogden Hall, 'a conspicuous object in the Vale,' in the 18th century. 52 Roman remains have been found … and about a mile from the valley known as the Bloody Vale iron armour and battle-axes have been discovered. 53 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Hedenham (xiii cent.). The parish of Haddenham lies in the Vale of Aylesbury towards its western limit. Its boundaries …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Roughly triangular in shape, it lies in the fertile vale of Taunton Deane, 1.75 km. east of the hundred boundary …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… around the 152 m. contour line and is locally called the vale of Ham. 6 In 1976, as in former times, it was covered by … woodland in the north-east corner at Spray. 7 Beyond the vale successive strata of Lower, Middle, and Upper Chalk … 183 m. on the southern boundary. Although the greensand vale was apparently not settled until Saxon times, 10 the …
A History of the County of Rutland
… 417 ft. above the Ordnance datum, and fine views over the Vale of Catmos can be had from it. The land falls away from …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xi cent.). The parish of Hanney covers 4,300 acres in the Vale of the White Horse, and includes the townships of West … and are endowed with 12 a. 2 r. at Stanford in the Vale, 140 acres at Childrey known as Parson's Farm and a …