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A History of the County of Buckingham
… in the north of the parish, the lowest 125 ft. in the south. The soil is light, the subsoil gravel; the chief crops … property of Mr. Frederick Burt. The village street runs south of the church. Adjoining the cottages on the east side … a small building consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, south aisle, and west tower. The whole church was rebuilt by …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… built village lying on crossroads running north and south and east and west, the former, called Marsh Lane, ascending south from the River Thames (where the height above the … in. The whole appears to be of 14th-century date. At the south end is a woodmullioned and transomed window of six …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… from the Wiltshire border on the north to Thruxton on the south. It has an area of 1,290 acres, of which 820 acres are … over 300 ft., and there is a slight slope from north to south. Fyfield village lies in a slight hollow in the south of the parish and is approached by roads from Kimpton, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… cent.); ? Saxeby (xii cent.). This parochial chapelry lies south of Whitby parish and contains the villages of Robin … 3; the foreshore, which extends at the foot of Fylingdales Moor, common to the townships of Fylingdales and … Abbey by its founder, 12 and may have been the mill of South Fyling mentioned in 1394. 13 Fyling Old Hall in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… west and nearly 2 miles at its widest point from north to south. Most of the northern boundary adjoins Waresley and … boundaries. Most of Woodbury is on Oxford Clay. To the south of the village, on the Greensand, is a small area of … Hatley St. George, flows westwards to the village and then south-westwards into Potton; there is also a small stream …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… estate given to Malmesbury abbey, and the stream to the south, Woodbridge brook, was that called Garesburn until the … boundary of Braydon forest which ran roughly north and south between Swatnage wood in Charlton and Woodbridge brook: … hill which gave Garsdon its name 10 is a north-west and south-east ridge, rising from 76 m. near the church to 110 m. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… This parish of 2,233 acres lies some three miles south-east of Oxford on the eastern boundaries of Littlemore … It is roughly pear-shaped, its narrow neck forming its south-eastern end. The old Roman way, now a footpath, partly … v, p. 387. Cal. Close, 13237, 554; 131823, 420, 522; C. Moor, Knights of Edw. I, iii (Harl. Soc. lxxxii), 11213; …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the Island, inclosing a picturesque wooded valley running south into the heart of the downs. Under 3,000 acres, it … slope of the valley sheltered by the woods from the south-west. It was rebuilt by Sir Edward Worsley in 1750. 2 Sheat House lies to the south of Gatcombe, at the foot of Chillerton Down, and is of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the North Eastern railway crosses the Roman road, 3 in the south of the parish, stands Gate Helmsley House, the Manor … 22 ft. by 12 ft. with side chapels, a nave with north and south aisles 37 ft. by 24 ft., a western tower and south porch. The church has been so thoroughly restored as to …
A History of the County of Surrey
… on the north by Chipstead, on the east by Merstham, on the south by Reigate, and on the west by Kingswood in Ewell. It … a mile from east to west, and a trifle more from north to south, and contains 1,200 acres of land and 32 of water. A tongue of the parish ran southwards, south of Merstham to the boundary of Nutfield, but was added …