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A History of the County of Hampshire
… datum. It is fertile and densely wooded. Lords Wood in the south and Chilworth Common in the south-east cover a considerable portion of the parish. There … this village attend the schools at North Baddesley. In the south of the parish, towards Southampton, are Chilworth …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the Icknield Way, and a third running from north to south. The more southerly of the two east-west roads is the … over by the G.W.R. in 1884. 14 There was a halt a -mile south of Chinnor village and another at Wainhill. In 1957 … inclosure at this date. They said that they knew when the 'Moor' was taken out of the 'Great Close' called 'Whyttleys' …
A History of the County of Somerset
… measured 2 km. from east to west and 3.5 km. from north to south. A detached area some 2.5 km. north of the northern … Heydon Hill in the north-west to c. 120 m. in the extreme south-east, on slates, siltstones, and sandstones of the … wooded in the north, but widening sufficiently further south for the establishment of two farmsteads and the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… is a small parish, 4 miles north from Redhill, and 6 miles south-west of Croydon. It is bounded by Banstead and … by Coulsdon and Merstham on the east, by Gatton on the south, and by Kingswood in Ewell on the west. It measures 3 miles north-east and south-west by 2 miles north-west to south-east, and contains …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as Cherrington until the 20th century, lies 5 miles south-east of Devizes at the western end of the Vale of … near Chirton bottom, and extends 3 miles from north to south across the greensand vale, the northern escarpment, and … cattle were pastured there in 1970. A few hundred yards south a steep greensand bank rises to the road which formerly …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… chalk escarpment of the Marlborough Downs. From north to south the distance is some 5 miles. Across the northern tip … it is less than mile wide, but at its widest point, in the south, it is about 3 miles broad. 2 In 1891 the area was … to the Upper Chalk of the Marlborough Downs in the south. 8 At their lowest point the clay lands do not rise …
A History of the County of Oxford
… eight arches and five stone pillars. About 40 feet to the south there is a subsidiary bridge of one arch, which spans a … in the village. It lies on the Thame 200 yards west by south of Chislehampton Bridge, and incorporates part of a … moat. The house is built of coursed rubble on a north and south axis with gables at each end; it has a square …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… parish extends over a level of marshes, called North and South Chistlet levels, between Reculver and the Isle of … the manor of Grays, alias Ores, as far as the antient south wall of Reculver castle. It extends westward to the … than the rest of the church. In the former, against the south wall, is a monument for Stephen Hunt, gent. of this …
A History of the County of Surrey
… a village 3 miles north-west of Woking Junction, 6 miles south-west of Chertsey. The parish is bounded on the north-east by Egham and Chertsey, on the south by Horsell, Bisley, and Pirbright, on the west by Ash, … by Windlesham. It measures about 6 miles from northeast to south-west, 4 miles from north-west to southeast at the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… boundary with Bulford, and roads mark the boundary on the south and east. The parish is entirely on Upper Chalk. Where … river, which leaves the parish at below 91 m., and in the south-east corner of the parish there is land at c. 100 m. … occurred. 7 There was downland pasture in the north and south parts of the parish, arable on lower land east, west, …