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A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.). The parish of Fawley, which is bordered on the south and west by Oxfordshire, covers an area of 2,212 acres. … 2 The general slope of the land is from north-west to south-east, and falls from 552 ft. to 113 ft. above ordnance … Mackenzie, the lord of the manor, stands in the extreme south of the parish, with a view over the Deer Park, about …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the centre of the parish. The larger portion of this moor bears the name 'Badminston Common'; further west it is … to Hillhead. A motor-bus service, opened by the London and South-Western Railway Company on 13 August, 1906, and running … as a rule were not founded in villages. A mile and a half south of the village, the 'Floating island' used to be an …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… parish consists of three townships, North or Great Fawley, South or Little Fawley, and Whatcombe; the latter was once a … square, lies in a hollow in the downs around the church, South Fawley comprises only the Manor House and some … of the parish, is 694 ft., and the lowest point, at the south-east corner, is about 415 ft. above the ordnance datum. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… by the last Nicolls heiresses. Faxton Lodge lies to the south of the parish, where there are also brickworks. To the … nave of four bays, 42 ft. 8 in. by 18 ft. 6 in.; and south aisle, 7 ft. 9 in. wide, all these measurements being … two-light window of the same style in the north wall. The south wall is blank, except for a plain lancet at its west …
A History of the County of Worcester
… leads northwards from the main road to the church, on the south side of which is an open space surrounded by cottages, … repaired, as recorded on a tablet fixed upon the south wall, inscribed as follows: 'Erected A.D. 1611. … front. The principal rooms occupy the ground floor of the south or garden front. The kitchen was originally at the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… a parish of 1,990 acres, is bounded, except in the south-west, by the River Ouse, which divides it from Odell … bridge. 3 A small branch of the Radwell Road leads to Moor End, an outlying district of this parish. Felmersham … Bridge on the north, is pleasantly situated on the south bank of the Ouse. The parish church, dedicated in …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… lies on the Cambridgeshire borders of the county on the south side of the river Ouse. As its name implies, it is for … land, liable to floods, which rises somewhat to the south. The area is 2,565 acres of land and 16 acres of land … The main part of the village is the High Street, on the south side of which are several 17th-century timber-framed …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1931, 485. The parish is bounded on the north, west, and south by small streams, and the land, which is mostly open, … at the church and then more steeply to over 650 ft. in the south-west corner of the parish on Gredenton Hill, where … John Basse 1667.' Another house about 100 yards farther south on the same side of the road is dated 1593 and has …
A History of the County of Surrey
… from Letherhead. It measures nearly 4 miles from north to south, and under 2 miles from east to west, tapering to the south, and includes 1,817 acres of land and 22 of water. … of the chalk, but the greater part of the parish to the south is upon the chalk hills, and the northern part and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… no more than 125 m. wide, extended from the rectangle's south-western corner southwards for 5.5 km. and formed a tail … remained part of the abbey's estate. Although much land south of the river remained Wilton abbey's, the Fifield Bavant estates included meadow land south of the river at the south end of the rectangle and thus …