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A History of the County of Surrey
… River Wey just below Guildford. It is bounded on the west and north by Worplesdon, on the east by Merrow, on the south by St. Martha's, Shalford, and the Guildford parishes. It measures 3 miles from north-west to south-east, and 1 miles from south-west to north-east. The total area of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lost to Ardley 685 acres, including its hamlet of Fewcot, and has since comprised 3,216 acres. 2 The parish is well … Cornbrash. On the eastern boundary the land is low-lying and liable to flooding, but the rest of the parish is upland, … it a well-known hunting district. Stoke and Little Stoke Woods lie on either side of Swift's House (see below), and …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… parish of Stoke Mandeville lies in the Vale of Aylesbury and now contains over 1,499 acres of land. Until 1885 some … in that year it was attached for civil purposes to Great and Little Hampden parish. 1 This estate, lying close to … strife, he upheld the rights of the people under the law and became entitled to grateful remembrance. His work on …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… are 651 acres of arable land, 1,432 of permanent grass and 381 of woods and plantations. 1 The general slope of the land in the … when John de Moleyns obtained a licence to inclose three woods, 197 and a reference to his new park occurs ten years …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 1 of which 994 are arable land, 2,232 permanent grass and 1 woods. 2 The village of Stoke Prior, in the west of the … of over 400 ft. at Finstall. The subsoil is Keuper Marl and the upper soil is clay, growing crops of wheat, barley …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a. 1 It lies 5 miles west of Yeovil, between Montacute and the Foss Way, and measures nearly 3 miles from east to west, and 1 mile … on Ham Hill, some of which was woodland. There were also woods round the hill, of unknown value and extent. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… STOKE TALMAGE The parish is a small one of 869 acres and so far as is known its boundaries have not changed since at least the 8th century: 1 it is long and narrow in shape and lies between Watlington and Thame to the north of the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… acres, including 2,427 of arable, 1,215 of permanent grass and 970 of woods and plantations. 1 The slope of the land varies from … in the east of the parish between Fillington and Barn Woods to 800 ft. near the Aston Rowant border on the main …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (xi cent.). Stokesley is the central parish of Cleveland and covers about 6,700 acres of fertile country in the valley … by the Leven itself, but by its two tributaries, the Tame and the Eller Beck, which join it, one from the north and the other from the south, just below the town of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Parishes Stone STONE Stanes (xi and xiii cent.). The parish of Stone has an area of 2,516 … water, 1,405 acres are arable land, 415 permanent grass, and 90 wood. 1 It is situated immediately south-east of … Kidderminster, from which it is divided by the River Stour and by one of its tributaries. There is a rifle range for …