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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Wylye valley 10 km. south-east of Warminster; the long and narrow parish is south of the river, and the village is … was built c. 1934. 39 There may have been a lodge in the woods at the south end of the parish in 1773, 40 perhaps near … tithe award; Boyton Manor Archive, lease of Sherrington woods, 1841. W.R.O. 857/13; 1508/19; Boyton Manor Archive, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Shillington with Lower Stondon and Little Holwell SHILLINGTON WITH LOWER STONDON and LITTLE HOLWELL Sethlindone (xi cent.), Suthlingdon (xiii … 3,126 acres are arable land, 834 permanent grass, and 74 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is strong clay, the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… left bank of the River Loddon between Stratfield Mortimer and Earley, and consists of a central ridge of high land … which 1,426 are arable land, 2,247 permanent grass and 75 woods and plantations. 1 Recently a large part of the estate … showing the arms of Beke, wrought in inlaid coloured woods, dated 1509. 5 This has been removed, but the study …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Shingay SHINGAY The small and thinly populated parish 1 lay on the south side of the … was compact in shape, 3 bounded on the north by the river and separated from Wendy on the east by a stream known as the … southern boundary. The western boundary, between Shingay and Steeple Morden, is marked by Shingay Gate Farm which has …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… PARISH lies the greatest part of it below the sand hills, and consequently in that part of this county called the … Shipborne green, having the church at the west side of it; and about half a mile further westward, near the boundary of … rise of the hill is the mansion of Fairlawn, the offices and great part of the grounds of which are within this …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… land, 877 are permanent grass, mostly for sheep pasture, and 119 acres are woods and plantations. 1 The ground rises towards the centre of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Shipton Oliffe and Shipton Solers SHIPTON OLIFFE AND SHIPTON SOLERS Shipton … Sowden wood higher up to the south-east were the largest woods, 26 and after inclosure some of it, including Sowden … of woodland 30 but in the early 20th century several new woods were formed in the Coln valley and elsewhere in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Chiltern parishes, is narrow, being only -mile across, and long, though its 3 miles is nothing compared to the … valley). 5 The parish is notable for its fine beech woods. In the Middle Ages it was more thickly wooded than now, but the woods were used for pasturing animals and little care seems …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the parish, next to Otford, having both the church and the seat of New House on the eastern side of it. Hence, … the chalk hills rise, on which the soil is but barren, and much covered with flints, rise pretty high; beyond which, towards the east and western boundaries of the parish are the two small …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… lies Shorne, called in the Textus Rossensis, Scorene, and in other antient records, Sores and Schornes. THE PARISH of Shorne is about three miles in … thro it, westward of which are the hamlets of Lower Shorne and Shorne-green, where the ground is low and flat; southward …