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A History of the County of Leicester
… formerly a chapelry of Glenfield, is about 2 miles south-west of the centre of Leicester. In 1891 the civil … then crossed the Hinckley road to take in the area to the south-east of the Braunstone Frith estate. In 1892 254 acres … still stand along Braunstone Lane. At Hall Farm, at the south-east end of the village, the brick surrounding wall and …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of the ancient parish of Evington lies some 2 miles south-east of the centre of Leicester. The area of the … was built on a patch of sand and gravel, close to the south-eastern boundary of the parish and not far from the … on the map. A few of the inclosed fields in the south of the parish were held by several tenants and jointly …
A History of the County of Leicester
… to Melton Mowbray runs through New Humberstone to the south. There is a station on this line at New Humberstone. … house of three stories. The Grange, on the south side of the street, is a smaller house of the same date … History. There were four open fields in Humberstone, South, Middle, North, and Mill fields. 29 The glebe terrier …
A History of the County of Leicester
… city of Leicester and is largely a built-up area two miles south-east of the town centre. It was formerly a chapelry of … 2 Knighton lies on Boulder Clay in the north, and in the south extends to the band of mixed clay and limestone which … an area of terrace houses in Francis Street. 48 To the south, beyond Knighton Road, building along the London road …
A History of the County of Leicester
… absorbed into the abbey's lands adjoining it to the south. 20 The Hospitallers' lands at Beaumont were … which was leasing from the Crown the grange in the South Fields formerly owned by the dissolved College of St. … with Ashe Meadow, lay within the later parish, in its south-east portion near the river Soar. 168 The location of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 10 HINTON PARVA 11 HOLT 12 HORTON 13 LONG CRICHEL 14 MOOR CRICHEL 15 PAMPHILL 16 PENTRIDGE 17 SHAPWICK 18 SIXPENNY …
A History of the County of Worcester
… to Worcester, which runs through the parish from north to south, and is crossed by the road from Tenbury. The south-western angle of the parish is bounded by a tributary … above the ordnance datum, and the highest land is in the south-east of the parish, in the neighbourhood of Abberley …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Old Chimney Stack, Abberton Hall Abberton lies to the south of the main road from Worcester to Alcester, a branch … from which runs through the parish from north-east to south-west. The village, which is very small, is 5 miles … datum, and from it the land slopes away to the north and south, the southern boundary of the parish being formed by …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.). Abbots Langley is a long parish running north and south. The northern part is on the Chilterns, and the ground … is considerably lower, and there is a general trend in the south and west down to the valley of the River Gade, which … it is the historic farm-house called Brakespear's. In the south of Abbots Langley is Langleybury, which was formed into …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of houses of the 18th century and later. A little to the south-east of the church is a picturesque group of some … The moat still survives on its eastern side. To the south-east of the house is a further group of houses round a large green with a pond in the middle. Green Farm on the south side is a good specimen of a 17th-century house with …