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A History of the County of Warwick
… joins it. The boundary then runs northwards along a brook and west to the road from Norton Lindsey, down which it runs … near Pathlow. Here it turns south-east to Clopton Gorse and then for mile up King's Lane, down which tradition says … to the Bushes there are several coppices and small woods. In 1766 some 1,610 acres were inclosed; there were at …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… intervening, is Snodland, called in Domesday, ESNOILAND, and in the Textus Roffensis, SNODDINGLAND and SNODILAND. SNODLAND lies on the western bank of the … and much covered with flints. Upon these hills among the woods is an estate, corruptly called Punish, for it takes its …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Parishes Soberton SOBERTON Sudbertune (xi cent.); Subertune and Sobertona (xiii cent.); Subberton (xv cent.); Supporton … land, 1,104 acres of permanent grass, and 1,668 acres of woods and plantations. 1 Soberton Heath, Southend Plain, … it from his grandfather Roger. 14 As early as 1229 the woods of the abbot and convent in Soberton were extensive …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the 16th century, for the church had disappeared by 1575 2 and the area was described c. 1585 as 'a manor of itself with … just over 117 a. of land at Chestermead to Tintinhull and the rest to Ilchester for ecclesiastical purposes. The … until 1957, when it was divided between Tintinhull and Ilchester in the same proportions. 5 The parish lay …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Sockburn includes the three townships of Sockburn, Girsby and Over Dinsdale, which cover altogether 2,757 acres. Of … 1 The Tees forms the boundary between the two counties, and also the boundary between the townships, except at one … near the parish church where the boundary leaves the river and runs alongside it on the right bank. In this part of its …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of a main block some 5 miles wide from east to west and between 3 and 4 miles from north to south, of undulating country mostly … 4 miles south-west, bounded on the west by Worcestershire and on the east by the parish of Tanworth. This strip is …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of Somersham lies on the eastern boundary of the county and adjoins the parish of Chatteris in Cambridgeshire. The … liking and he greatly regretted the waste of the game and woods there. He ordered that the park should be restocked … 56 The boundaries between Somersham Chace and the Royal Forests were perambulated at divers times. 57 In some of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… parish, the largest in the hundred, shares with Pitney and Kingsdon the 200 ft. Lower Lias ridge between the valleys of the Yeo and the Cary. 1 It is over 6 miles from the Eighteen Feet … Sedgemoor in the north-west to Catsgore in the south-east, and is up to 4 miles from east to west. The river Cary forms …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the north by Aston Mill the line has been drawn east of it and in the south-west the boundary follows the western arm of … escarpment which forms the watershed between the Thames and the Ouse. 4 Most of it is a bleak and treeless tableland, … out, the Fermors only keeping in hand Ladyham Close, some woods and several plots of furze in the common fields. There …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Parishes Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford SONNING with EARLEY, WOODLEY and SANDFORD Sonninges (xi cent.); Sunning, Sunninges (xii … are arable land, 2,633 acres permanent grass and 658 acres woods and plantations. 1 The common fields were inclosed in …