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A History of the County of Hertford
… village, where a network of lanes branch off to north and south. The village lies in the centre of the parish, with the … the north of the parish is the hamlet of Aston End. In the south-east is Frogmore Hall, a modern red brick house … end of the wall is a large double piscina with a single drain and divided by a central pillar. The heads are …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… of Lieut.-Col. Henry Mitchell Sholto Douglas. To the south-west of the Abbey is Windmill Hill, an elevation of 440 ft. The hamlet of Burston lies about a mile south-west of Aston Abbots, and consists of Lower Burston and … 11 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 in., nave 47 ft. 6 in. by 17 ft., south porch and a west tower 8 ft. 9 in. by 6 ft. It has …
A History of the County of Warwick
… is an extensive parish, about 5 miles from north-west to south-east, stretching across the valley of the Alne. The … hamlet of Shelfield. The valley is bounded on the east and south by a line of low hills, partly wooded, which divide it … ridge are two more hamletsNewnham and, about a mile to the south of it, Wilmcote, which has been a separate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and its hamlets at Beacon's Bottom and Water End in the south. 2 In 1895 Stokenchurch, which was a separate civil … meaning Roundhill, recorded in the 13th century. 7 In the south the crest of the Chiltern ridge rises to 800 feet near … woodland. 342 Other large closes such as 'Inland', the 'Moor', and the 'Park', recorded in 1584, 343 may have been …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the upper portion. At the corner of the fork of the road, south of the church, is an interesting little 17th-century … angles, and a wooden cornice below the tiled roof. At the south end of the village is an 18th-century Presbyterian … roof, is lighted by round-headed windows on the north, south, and west, and by a small circular light over the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… the highest point is 249 ft. above the sea levelto the south, where it reaches only 138 ft. The soil and subsoil are … by a tributary of the Ivel, lies concentrated in the south of the parish, off the Roman road which forms the … head with marks of a shelf low down in the recess. The drain is much lower in the wall than in normal instances. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the open fields. 13 On either side of the Watling Street south of the town was the Windmill Hill Field. 14 In this … ST. MARY consists of a chancel, central tower, north and south transepts, nave, and north and south aisles. The chancel may be built on the foundations of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by 18 ft.), nave (43 ft. by 21 ft.), north vestry, and a south-west tower. It was rebuilt in 1876 with walls of grey … lights and tracery. In the north wall is one and in the south wall are two windows, each of two trefoiled lights and … clue is given as to its date and the reason for it. In the south wall the east and west windows are similar but the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… village lies mostly north of the church. In the roadway south-east of the church are the stone base and four steps of … between them which has a wide fire-place towards the south-west room. This room also has an open-timbered ceiling. … of ST. NICHOLAS consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower with a spire. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Trusloe, Beckhampton, then 790 a., which lies to the south, and West Kennett, c. 930 a., to the south-east. 2 The name Avebury is first recorded in Domesday … lands to the west, then perhaps a single unit extending south to the downs, later formed the parishes of Avebury and …