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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… stony soil, as its name implies, Stane signifying a stone, and stede a place in the Saxon language. THIS PARISH lies in … of chalk hills. From its high situation it lies very cold and bleak, being much exposed towards the north and north-east, where it has a beautiful and extended …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marlborough Downs. 1 Three Saxon land charters refer to it and survey its boundaries in essentially similar ways. In the … were drawn across Wansdyke to enclose Thorn Hill and in the south were marked by tributary streams of the … Tan Hill in All Cannings, the highest points in Wiltshire, and much land over 700 ft. There are Upper and Middle Chalk …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the nearest boundary of the parish being three miles, and the village itself four and a half miles, from the centre … 'Brode Mede' (160 a.) and Hillsden (18 a.); and two woods, Horley and Great Wood, of 40 acres each. No records of … on the northern boundary of the parish cut out of the woods and waste ground along the border of Beckley parish. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 5 km. from east to west, c. 1.75 km. from north to south, and measures 731 ha. (1,807 a.). From the earlier 13th century, and possibly from the later nth century or earlier, it has … two markedly different villages, in 1223 called Stanton and Nether Stanton. 2 Stanton, the site of the church, manor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… edge of the Cotswolds, 11 miles east of Tewkesbury and four miles north-east of Winchcombe. The name is derived … 19th century when timber was sold annually from three woods, Lidcombe, Thrift, and Cosgrove. 125 In 1635 c. 30 … and again after the two World Wars. About 1950 some of the woods in the north-east part of the parish were replanted by …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… was composed in 1831 of the townships of Stanwick St. John and Aldbrough, together with Caldwell, East Layton and Carkin, which lie to the east separated from the rest of … acres of land, of which rather more than half is arable and a large amount pasture. 1 The subsoil is Yoredale Rocks, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… line of the Roman road called Wool street 3 to the north and the river Granta to the south. Its north-western and south-eastern boundaries mostly follow old field and furlong divisions, and are fairly straight. North-west of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 The parish is crossed northsouth by the river Till, and consists of a rectangle on each side of it; from the … village, part of which may have been called Church Street, and Uppington hamlet; on the west bank stand the small villages called Over Street and Serrington. In 1884, 33 a. south of Stapleford village, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is in the north borough, the boroughs of King's Franchise and Faircrouch, or Lovehurst, is in the bailiwic of the Seven Hundreds, and hundred of Cranbrooke; and another part of it is in the hundred of Marden; all which …
A History of the County of Worcester
… parish of Staunton lies in the south-west of the county, and is bounded on the south by Gloucestershire, being in fact … a league long and half a league in breadth. 7 In 13434 the woods of Hawkisthurne and Hawegrove were inclosed into a … his interest in Staunton was probably only as owner of the forests of Malvern and Corse (see Deeds of D. and C. of …