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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In its ancient form it was oval and slanted north-east to south-west. No natural feature, except the Christchurch Avon … twin. New Town, consisting of a scatter of cottages south of Enford village, was considered part of Enford … in the Early 19th Century The valley carved from north to south through Enford by the Avon divides the parish into two …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Kennet River and a smaller branch of the Kennet on the south. Cranmere, a large lake, is in Englefield Park, and … 150 ft. and 200 ft. above the ordnance datum, but in the south-west it rises to a height of just over 300 ft. … symmetrically planned with a central entrance hall on the south, now converted into the library, out of which the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Epsom is a town 16 miles north-east of Guildford, 7 miles south-by-east of Kingston, 15 miles from London. The parish measures 4 miles from north to south, and 2 miles from east to west, and contains 4,413 … the Kingston road, was re-made. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway came to Epsom by the Croydon and Epsom …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… fleurs de lis; 2d, shield on a bend, three roses. In the south chancel, on a grave-stone, is the effigies of a man … of the abbot and convent of Lesnes, obt. 1421. On the south side on a grave stone, is a large brass plate, with the … for Sir Rich. Walden, and is preserved in Weever. On the south side is a noble altar tomb of white marble, for Eliz. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… part of the parish is low-lying. The land rises rapidly south of the village, reaching 700 ft. on the Plain. The … lies on the Upper Greensand outcrop overlying Gault Clay: south of the village is the Chalk of Salisbury Plain and in … in Erlestoke and gave their name to the down lying in the south of the parish and the farm a mile south of the village. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… xiv cents.); Asher (xvi cent.). Esher is a village 4 miles south-west from Kingston. The parish is bounded on the north … by East Molesey, on the east by Thames Ditton, on the south by Cobham, and on the west by Walton on Thames. It measures barely 3 miles from north to south, and scarcely 2 miles east to west. It contains 2,044 …
A History of the County of Rutland
… are in the valley of the river Glen, and the land in the south of the village and the southern part of the parish is … is built of coursed dressed stones, but on the east and south the chancel is faced with ashlar above a high chamfered … walls are plastered internally. Though much rebuilt, the south wall of the nave retains its original doorway, the date …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the lord of the manor. 6 Essendon Place, a little to the south of the village, was until lately the seat of the Barons … Isabella married John Currie of Bedwell Park. 12 In the south-west of the parish is Camfield Place, which took its … granted a field of land called 'le Wildefeld,' with the moor belonging to it, to Peter Cheyne and Alice his wife. 80 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… away from Etchilhampton Hill, 623 ft., to below 350 ft. south of the Devizes-Upavon road. The land in the east slopes … is suitable for tillage. Upper Greensand, covered in the south by alluvium, outcrops in the rest of the parish which … across the lower slopes of the hill. It crossed the south-west of the parish and, where a road over the hill to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… town from the college on the north and from Windsor on the south. 5 About this time there was another and important … said to lie 'between the graveyard of the church on the south and the land formerly of Walter Clay on the north, to … by estimation three roods.' 43 Crown Farm lies on the south side of Eton Great Common. It is an early 17th-century …