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A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2,667 acres of the sweep of chalk down country which rises south and east of the city. Of the whole parish 947 acres are … About half a mile or so from Highcliff a lane branching south from the main road to Petersfield, which cuts across … village it joins with another lane which comes from the south-west from Winchester and then curves slightly west past …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Billericay (later Basildon). 2 In 1938 the area south of the railway was transferred from Billericay to … m. in the north, at Thorndon country park, to 6 m. in the south. The soil is London clay. Several streams flow south. One, which was part of the parish boundary with Little …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… over 2,700 acres, extends from a point on the downs a mile south of the Ridgeway to the bottom of the Vale of the White … and has a tablet recording its erection in 1732. To the south of the church is the manor-house of Rampayns Manor, … been re-erected and the windows are not in situ. At the south end of the screens is a fourcentred doorway giving the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and the vales clay. There is some coppice wood in the south west part of it towards Molash, where it becomes, among … the long barrow of earth upon the chalk-hill, close on the south-east side of the river here, near French Mill, almost … Laberius. It is in its present state, from north to south, one hundred and forty-eight feet, and in breadth …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which consists of twenty two houses; on the south side stands the church. The soil is chalky and poor, … a circular arch, but plainer than the other, over the south door. It has nothing further worth mention in it. This …
A History of the County of Somerset
… by the early 15th century. 7 Higher Chillington, in the south-west, developed probably in the 18th century from … called Blacklands north of Hill farm and others to the south of it still bore traces of open-field arable in the … some in Clay Lane, Lower Chillington, and more in Moor Lane, Higher Chillington, each having a potato plot …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Salisbury. 1 It is a rectangular parish on a north and south axis and measures 4.5 km. by 3 km., 1,299 ha. … parish is in the Nadder valley. It slopes down to its south-east corner whence the boundary stream flows south-eastwards, but the geology and landscape of its north …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… barley and roots. The general slope of the land is from south to north, the height above the ordnance datum varying … the settlement. A little distance below the church on the south side of the roadway stand the remains of the house … by 12 ft. 3 in., a nave 31 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 8 in., a south aisle 21 ft. by 11 ft. 7 in., and a modern west tower …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… springs and ponds near the rectory and flows thence in a south-westerly direction to Brown Candover. Near the sources … half a mile in length and of some antiquity, which leads south-east to the road to Preston Candover. Afterwards this … Breaches, Chilton Wood, Dundridge, Shilton Warren and South Downs.' 3 'The Breaches' is preserved in Breach Farm …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1931, 13,269. The parish of Chilvers Coton lies to the south of Nuneaton, into which borough it was absorbed in … 4 miles from east to west and about 2 miles from north to south. Its eastern boundary is formed by the Wem Brook, which runs into the Anker below Nuneaton; and on the south a branch of the River Sowe forms the boundary for a …