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A History of the County of Hampshire
… is a modern watering place, there being very little more than the site to mark its ancient history. … cut up into two cottages, standing alone by the seashore a little to the east of Hook. Hook House Park, east of the … abbey of St. Mary, Titchfield, stand at a little distance to the north of the town. Founded in 1222 for …
A History of the County of Northampton
… or a former one rebuilt, early in the 14th century, and a little later the north aisle was rebuilt in its present form …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… common lands within Tockenham manor were taken into the Little Park of Vastern (Wootton Bassett), the north-eastern … were 3 small estates at Tockenham in 1086. Alfric the little, the king's thegn, held 1 hide there, another one-hide … the earlier 16th century these commons were taken into the Little Park of Vastern, and in exchange tenants were given …
A History of the County of Bedford
… for the last six years. On another branch of the stream, a little to the north-east, stand the old brick and tile …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… part of the parish. 8 In 1559 it was said that there was little wood growing in Todenham 9 and in 1962 the woodland … were then 21 customary tenants. 122 The numbers changed little during the 17th century; in 1683 there were 24 … though none had more than four, 131 and there was little change during the next two centuries. Before inclosure …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is principally employed for sheep-farming. There is very little woodland in Toft, and that is but a small plantation … it is to be noticed that Comberton church is similarly a little distance from the centre of the modern village. Within … in 1066 was assessed at 8 hides and 40 a., 40 of which a little more than three were held by the abbot as his manor of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 851 a., included much of Farnham village, then called Little Farnham, but excluded Farnham church, 7 which was … end of the village were demolished 50 and there was little new building. Most of the village was designated a … gardens known as the Larmer Grounds. Within the grounds, a little south of the county boundary, stood the Larmer tree, a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… grounds about it. Near it is a delightul water-scence. A little island, planted with some sprightly trees, appears … their newly fledged wings: the mother's attention to her little family filled me with some pleasing sensations, and profitable reflections: she flew gently over a little space of ground, and repeatedly dropped in the grass, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in fact known as Baldon St. Lawrence with Toot Baldon and Little Baldon, and the change of name did not occur until … line, but in the north it rises to about 290 ft. and at Little Baldon Farm in the south drops to about 210 ft. The … runs southwards along the line of the old Roman road to Little Baldon, skirting the east end of Marsh Baldon Green. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the north of the station Lower Tooting bridge crosses the little stream of the Graveney as it flows into Mitcham. It is … Georges Meade, Vicar's Busshes How (xvii cent.); Great and Little Dimocks, Beggory Common Mead, Hither and Further Sugger Lands, Great and Little Bushy Downe and Reach Field (xviii cent.). MANOR About …