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A History of the County of Buckingham
… the ordnance datum in the north-east and 190 ft. in the south of the parish, where it is divided from Oxfordshire by … liable to floods. The village is situated towards the south of the parish and is very irregular. The Thame flows past the south-east end of the village, under a narrow bridge by the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… above the ordnance datum in the north to 319 ft. in the south, where the land is liable to floods from a tributary of … of stone with tiled roofs. The church is situated at the south-east, with the rectory, a good building of stone with a … Purefoy Purefoy, M.V.O., R.N., is approached from the south end of the village by an avenue of trees. The house was …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… into the two hundreds of Newport and Cottesloe, to the south-west of Watling Street. The more important portion, the … Mary's Church is, lies in Newport Hundred, and has to the south of it the hamlet of Brook End in Cottesloe Hundred. … woods 'all well sett with yonge oke.' 3 Howe Park in the south of Brook End was returned at 88 acres in the 17th …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… datum in the north to about 200 ft. in the west and south, where the River Ouse and Chicheley Brook form the … Parson's Lane) and Perry Lane branch off to the east and south-east from the High Street, and with it almost encircle … on elevated ground, with the rectory about 300 yds. to the south. The latter is a 17th-century stone house of two …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bletchley Urban District Council. Watling Street forms the south-west boundary and becomes the High Street of Fenny Stratford in the south. The River Ouzel is the eastern boundary, and the Grand … Junction Canal passes through the parish from north to south. The Bedford branch of the London and North Western …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… the subsoil clay. The slope of the ground is from the south, where the highest point is 353 ft. above the ordnance … an aisle, or chapel, since destroyed, was built on the south side of the chancel, and in the 13th century the north … when the arcade was blocked and the north porch built. The south wall of the chancel, which is unusually thick, is …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… branch of the London and North Western railway crosses its south-east corner and has a station called Claydon. The … had lapsed in 1795. 63 Steeple Claydon Church From The South-west Church The church of ST. MICHAEL consists of a chancel, north vestry, nave, north and south transepts, north aisle, south porch, and west tower; …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… of quarter sessions. Ram Alley is a small hamlet to the south-east of the village, comprising a group of 17th-century … of ST. PETER consists of a chancel 29 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft., south chapel 29 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft., nave 38 ft. by 18 ft. 6 in., north aisle 7 ft. wide, south aisle 8 ft. wide, west tower 11 ft. square and a south …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… parish. The somewhat scattered village is situated in the south-east. It contains many halftimber 17th-century … are two yew trees planted in 1687. The rectory is on the south-west of the church and the school a short distance east of it. Stoke Lodge, to the south of the road between the Bell Inn and the post office, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… two mortuary chapels opened in 1856 at Galley Hill. To the south of the market square is a Methodist chapel built in … of ST. GILES, consisting of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, vestries and west tower, was built originally … at that period, and has a lofty nave with north and south arcades and a groined plastered ceiling, the clustered …