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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of a ridge, the watershed of the Avon and Test, marks the south-eastern boundary with Hampshire; the river Blackwater … rocks of the Avon valley and the younger Eocene rocks south-east of a line drawn roughly from Downton Brickworks to … was inclosed. 1675 A small area of the marsh, called the Moor, remained common, 1676 and there remained three common …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The lands of the former parish north of the London and south Wales motorway became part of Seagry parish in 1971. 8 … the centre and north, lowest, below 61 m., in the flatter south. The Cornbrash favoured arable, but most of the parish … were gates at each end, a new straight section was made south of the junction; west of it parts of the old road, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… amount of pasture. 8 A large bowl barrow lies within the south-west corner of the ancient parish north of Gipsy Lane. … Way transects the parish diagonally from north-east to south-west. The southern boundary of Draycot Foliat is formed … in Draycot and the rest in Chiseldon, was situated in the south-east corner of the parish and mainly consisted of a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… a few half-timbered cottages. In the churchyard on the south side is a cross with a modern shaft and head and a … Drayton Manor House which is now unoccupied lies on the south side of the High Street and at a little distance from … were three water-mills here. 8 The present mill is a mile south-east of the village, on Mill Brook. From 1793 to 1823 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… appearance of park land. There is a small covert in the south near Withycombe Farm. Withycombe, probably meaning … but there are still (1964) 3 cottages in the valley to the south-west of the church where the mill lay. 11 As the … further details of the Arden family at this date see C. Moor, Knights of Edw. I (Harl. Soc. lxxx), 18. Two …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… ground rises from 289 ft. above the ordnance datum in the south-west to 802 ft. in the north-east. The soil of the … with its church at the southern extremity, and just south of it the Wendover branch of the Grand Junction Canal, … rent-charge on Manor Farm, Chesham Bois, 2; rent-charge on Moor's Farm, Whelpley Hill, 14 s. 10 d.; and 167 0 s. 2 d. …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… with the adjacent rectory-house occupies a position to the south-west. There are several 17th-century thatched cottages, … Methodist chapel dating from 1847. A mound half a mile south-west of the church is possibly the remains of a … of pasture in Stewkley when the fields of Drayton on the south lay fallow each alternate year. In return the abbot …
A History of the County of Oxford
… flat, the highest point (244 ft.) being on Primrose Hill south of the river. Apart from the trees of the village, the … seems to be the 16th-century Garden Cottage by the river south-east of Drayton Manor Farm, but its neighbour, Little … noting are no. 10 Water Lane, the cottage in the lane south of the former Rectory, Ford Cottage, White Cottage with …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Meon valley, the River Meon, which here runs due north and south, flowing just within its eastern boundary for nearly … the houses of the village being to the north, west, and south. Hazleholt Park, the residence and property of Mrs. A. … son of the local squire, and an effigy of a lady in the south side of Droxford church has been supposed to be that of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… lying in the county of Stafford on the great South Staffordshire coalfield. The county boundary line makes … of a little over 300 ft. above the ordnance datum in the south to 700 ft. or 800 ft. in the north of the parish, which … land. The town of Dudley has developed entirely to the south of the castle. It probably at first consisted of one …