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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 3, 387 a., 2 lies 10 miles east of Cambridge and 3 south of Newmarket. It stretches, narrowing gradually south-eastwards, from north-west of the CambridgeNewmarket … Lammas meadow. At the western end of those closes lay the moor covering 48 a., held in 1800 by the lord in severalty. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… downhill enters the parish of Dummer about half a mile south of the Wheat Sheaf Inn. Thence it continues north, … side of the street, and along the branch road which leads south from the west end of the village. On the south side of the road, nearly half-way along the village …
A History of the County of Warwick
… where it is crossed by that from Southam to Rugby, 3 miles south-west of the last-named town. In 1931 a portion of … Cawston to the Avon, and 260 ft. by the Rains Brook, the south-eastern boundary. Minor roads lead from the village … in 1754. 7 Thurlaston hamlet is on a by-road a little south of the main Coventry road, which on its way across …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Duns Tew DUNS TEW Duns Tew parish lies just south of Deddington and 16 miles (26 km.) north of Oxford. … north Oxfordshire claylands and the limestone belt to the south. The northern boundary is formed by a brook, and the … the two parishes was accepted and known. 3 The centre and south-east parts of the parish are fairly level, the ground …
A History of the County of Surrey
… and Bramley, on the east by Hascombe and Alfold, on the south by the county of Sussex. It contains 4,028 acres of … parish is roughly a parallelogram of 3 miles from north to south and 2 miles from east to west. An outlying portion to … Mr. Samuel Barrow. FIELD PLACE FIELD PLACE, a farm in the south of the parish, is a reputed manor. 32 In the 15th …
A History of the County of Bedford
… famous Dunstable Downs, to 800 ft. The Blows Downs, to the south-east, reach nearly 700 ft., but north of Dunstable the … water drawn from two wells sunk on Half Moon Hill, on the south side of the town. As this water is filtered through … Street, the Roman military road, runs from north-east to south-west, and the possibly still older Icknield Way, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… when Richard Hampden lost nearly all his property in the South Sea Bubble. 46 In 1731 Dunton was sold by the trustees … ft. 3 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., west tower 7 ft. by 8 ft. and a south porch. It is built of flint and stone rubble with stone … of the nave roof at the end of the 18th century the south wall of the nave had to be rebuilt; about the same time …
A History of the County of Bedford
… parish of Dunton covers 2,649 acres, and is bounded on the south-east by Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, from which it … one in the west of the parish, running from north to south, the second crossing the other, running from east to … The road from Edworth, which enters Dunton from the south, is marked at first by a sharp rise in the ground, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The levels fall from 250 ft. at the north to 60 ft. at the south. In the north-east corner of the parish, where the … a fine view of the Hamble valley. About half a mile south-east of the Robin Hood is another piece of high ground, … church to school, the old stocks are said to have stood. South of Durley Street, where the road falls quickly to the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… road across downland on the east: an estate in the south part of the parish was defined by those boundaries in … steeply to the river. The highest land is at c. 140 m. south-east of Great Durnford, and the Avon is at c. 55 m. … little woodland. 7 In the 20th century the high land south-east of Great Durnford was used for an airfield. 8 The …