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A History of the County of Surrey
… Ditton 1 is a village on the banks of the Thames, a mile and a half from Kingston, of which it was once a chapelry, … in 1769. The parish measures 3 miles from north to south and about a mile and a half from east to west. It contains 2,964 acres of land …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Stour runs through it, on the southern side is the church and courtlodge, beyond which and the Ashford road the hill rises on a poor flinty soil, among the coppice woods, as far as Iffens wood, a small part of which is within … the hill rises among much poor rough land. towards the woods. THIS PLACE was antiently held of the archbishop, as …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 2,123 acres are arable, 2,062 acres are permanent pasture and 614 acres are woods and plantations. 1 It formerly contained nine tithings, … arable land, 641 acres of permanent grass and 194 acres of woods and plantations. 4 In the northern part of Thatcham …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the Chilterns which slopes somewhat abruptly to the north and more gradually to the south. The highest part of this … on the northern border has a height of about 235 ft., and in the south the ground slopes down to 365 ft. The … with belts of wood, chiefly beech and larch. Similar woods occur in other parts of the parish, within which there …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… upper soil is clay on a subsoil chiefly of Keuper Marls and lower lias, but there is alluvium in the vicinity of … of which 1,100 are arable land, 1,376 pasture and 104 woods and plantations. The inhabitants are mainly engaged in … stands in a park of 200 acres, and is backed by the Home Woods. The village stands on the Long Causeway at a point …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… 1831 the townships of Carlton Islebeck or Carlton Miniott and Sand Hutton 1 and the chapelry of Sowerby, which are now separate … 4, 133 acres are arable, 2,976 acres pasture and 185 acres woods and plantations. 2 The soil of this district is light …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the east of the parish. The parish lies on the London Clay and consists for the most part of agricultural land, the chief crops being wheat, barley and beans. Thorley Wood in the south-east is the only wood of … from the road are situated Thorley Hall (now a farm-house) and the church of St. James. Thorley Hall stands in a moated …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Thorley, a parish 9 miles west of Newport, running north and south, comprises some 1,580 acres of land chiefly given up to wheat, oats and barley. Of this area 721 acres are arable land, 672 are permanent grass and 81 are woods and plantations. 1 There are also 27 acres of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… there was a parcel charged to the Dane-tax at one Car. and was reckoned together with those Towns before named in … of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee. Yet Walter de Clifford, 1 and Agnes his wife, by Fine in the third year of King John, … of the Church of Turnehage to Thora Prioress of Brodholme, and her Nuns there, for which they received the said Walter, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… was composed in 1866 1 of the townships of Thornton Dale and Farmanby. In earlier times Ellerburn (q.v.) and Farmanby formed a joint township and in 1824 the township of Thornton was in Thornton parish …