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A History of the County of Hampshire
… datum, and climbs up to a height of over 332 ft. in a little over half a mile. The village is situated to the south … one in the centre to the east and one on each side a little east of the spring of the apse. Beneath the window on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… alluvial deposits which make good meadows. The parish has little woodland and in the 18th century it was suggested that … ancient site of the manor. 13 A group of cottages, called Little Worth, north of the church was built in the 17th and … 18th centuries, but tradition associates the cottages with Little Malvern Priory 14 and they may be on a site built over …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Naunton, and that its inhabitants, though civil, seemed little accustomed to strangers. 1 The soil, chiefly clay, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a concentration on cloth production and there is very little surviving evidence for farming. A flax pit was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… roof, with walls of close-set studding, of which only a little is left in the lower. The north gable-head has … yearly out of land called Fruitful or Woodstill lying near Little Sutton, to be given to the poor on Christmas Day, one …
A History of the County of Oxford
… considered a separate parish. 3 It was sometimes called Little Worton, 4 presumably because its population was then … 1478), and in 1500 her son William Birmingham died holding LITTLE WORTON manor. 46 It passed to his second wife Margaret … (d. 1545) and his son Richard (d. 1571) probably held little more than the original estate and an additional 1 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… open downland to the Christchurch Avon and extends a little over 3 km. from north to south. 2 The ancient parish … Haxton bridge, probably that known in the Middle Ages as 'little bridge'. 27 In 1773 a lane led south from High Street … for modern infilling in the north-west corner, it appeared little altered externally in 1975 but internally had been …
A History of the County of Essex
… ha.), was bounded east by Latton and west by Great and Little Parndon. Like Latton it was a long, narrow parish extending south from the river Stort. 1 When Little Parndon parish was abolished in 1946 that area was … pattern of roads and settlement appears to have changed little until the later 19 th century. 10 A spinal road from …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and west. Nettleden is connected by road with Great and Little Gaddesden. The nearest railway station is about two … are of fifteenth-century design, and in a few cases a little tracery of this date has been re-used. The chancel has …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (1) 'I hope to make it understood, That tho' I'm little yet I'm good'; (2) 'If you have a judicious ear, …