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A History of the County of Somerset
… in shape and measures approximately 3.5 km. north to south and between 3.5 km. and 4 km. east to west. Most of the … northern, and eastern boundaries follow roads. In the south-east the boundary follows two streams which converge south of Moor Mill Farm. 1 The northern boundary near Holcombe Water …
A History of the County of Worcester
… The Spadesbourne brook, rising in the Lickey Hills, flows south-west through the parish, and passing through the centre … falls from 940 ft. at Windmill Hill in the north to the south, the lowest point, 261 ft., being in the town of … commanding position on the summit of rising ground to the south of the main road, which in its course through the town …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… consists of a few scattered cottages, mostly to the south of the road from Shorwell to Freshwater, which here … early separated into Upper and Lower Brook, 2 north and south of the little stream from which it apparently takes its … church the only evidence is the arch 43 in the south wall opening to the tower, which must have originally …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Brock (xiv cent.). The parish of Brooke lies to the south of Oakham near the Leicestershire border, and was … They stand at the place where the road or path from the south divides, one branch going west and then north to … church, towards Egleton. The priory of Brooke stood on the south bank of the river about half a mile to the north-west …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 124 acres, which lie in detached pieces at some distance south-eastward from the rest of it, mostly near Ivychurch, … church stands in the middle of it. The lands towards the south are by far the most fertile, for towards Snargate they …
A History of the County of Worcester
… a threestory building of late 18th-century erection. The south or principal front is faced with stone and has a … by round-headed windows, one in the east and two in the south wall, and the nave by threeone on the north and two on the south. Between the windows in the south wall of the chancel …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… datum, is liable to floods, but the land rises towards the south near Hungry Farm to 131 ft. The total area is 2,372 … the date 1[6]76. On the west side of the road leading south from the church is a typical late 17th-century brick … How, a breeder of specially pure bred shorthorns. To the south-east of this farm is a 16th-century timber framed house …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xi cent.); Brocton (xiii cent.). Broughton lies to the south of Cransley, and has Kettering to the east of it, its … village, which is large, lies where this road bends to run south through the parish, and is situated between it and … in the eastern gable is inscribed 'w. f., 1685'. On the south side of the main road is a 17th-century house of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… BROUGHTON Broughton parish (2,083 a.) lies some 2 miles south-west of Banbury and includes the townships of Broughton … from at least 1805. 3 The parish is bounded on the west, south, and north-east, by the Sor Brook and one of its … Cal. Chart. R. 130026, 1; Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, pp. 2078. C. Moor, Knights of Edw. I (Harl. Soc. lxxx), 152. For the tomb …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… adjoins Melksham on the west. A small strip of land south-east of Broughton Gifford, beyond the Avon, is common … Bradford (A 3053) enters the parish in the east and runs south-west; parallel with it is the railway line from Melksham to Weymouth, which is joined in the extreme south of the parish by the line between Devizes and Bradford. …