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A History of the County of York North Riding
… is a parish on the borders of the wapentakes of Allerton and Birdforth. With its township of Hutton Sessay it covers … on alluvium, passing to Keuper Marls in the higher parts, and wheat, barley, oats and beans are grown. More than 2,000 acres are under …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… parish contained 3,377 a. 1 (1,367 ha.) mostly in a long and relatively thin band of land extending eastwards from the … only woodland there in the early 19th century. 20 Puckham woods (or wood), which were partly in Prestbury parish, were … estate. 21 The bishop had established a warren in the woods by the 1270s 22 and the episcopal estate derived an …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… SEVENOKE. NEXT southward from Seale lies the parish and town of SEVENOKE, called, in the Textus Roffensis, … &c. belong ing to it, and the park of Knole, and the woods and underwoods in it, which deed was the same day … ground called Panthurst-park, and the park, forest, woods, &c. called Whytlyff-wood, or the forest of Whytlyff, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Stoke, inclusive of the hamlets of Clifton, Kinnersley and Sandford, has an area of 3,326 acres, about two-thirds of … to pasture. 1 It stands on the left bank of the Severn and contains about 188 acres of woodland. The land, low lying … stands low near the river bank, is backed by the dark woods of Severn Bank. Near it is the rectory; a little to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the hill southward, where the clay is again very deep, and the like country through the woods as that below Great Chart and Bethersden, already described. One of the principal heads …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Old Harlackenden, is in the hundred of Blackborne, and lower division of the lath of Scray, and western division … country, the whole of which is much covered with coppice woods, which makes it very dreary and unpleasant. The soil is … pounds per annum. The glebe land consists of three small woods, containing together about nine acres. Church of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… three tithings, Shalbourne or Town, Bagshot in the north and Oxenwood in the south; the two latter, which were in … of which 2,441 are arable, 1,564 permanent grass and 592 woods and plantations. 2 The soil is chiefly chalk, covered … of land in Oxenwood by serjeanty of keeping the royal woods of Hippinscombe and paying 20 s. yearly at Marlborough …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… boundary is formed by the high road from Alton to Odiham, and the village lies about half a mile to the west of this road and is connected with it by Stancombe Lane. The principal … The nearest railway station is at Alton, on the Farnham and Winchester Branch of the London and South Western …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… on the north of the Island, about midway between Newport and Freshwater, and at one time doubtless included the town of Yarmouth. The … village consists of a grouping of cottages to the north and east of the church. In the hollow of the road, which here …
A History of the County of Surrey
… It is intersected by the River Wey from south to north, and the Tillingbourne running east and west joins the Wey … Shalford village towards St. Martha's Hill, the Chantry Woods, so named from part of them having formed the endowment … implements have been found between the Chantry Woods and the chalk down. Opposite the church is an old house …