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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from Bersted. It is written in Domesday, Turneham, and is supposed to take its name from the antient castle situated in it, Thurn in Saxon signifying a tower, and ham a village. THE PARISH of Thurnham, though healthy, is … yet from the nature of its soil an unpleasant situation, and is rather an unfrequented place, of but little …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… parish of Thurning was formerly partly in Northamptonshire and partly in Huntingdonshire (Leightonstone Hundred), the … church being in the latter county. The boundary went north and south through the main street. In 1888, however, the … included in Northamptonshire. 1 The area is 1,016 acres, and the soil is clay, upon which wheat and barley, beans and …
Magna Britannia
… from Carlisle to Wigton, lies six miles from the former, and five from the latter. The parish is divided into the townships of Parton, High-Thursby, Low-Thursby, and Whinow, or Crofton-Quarter, containing collectively, in 1811, 94 houses, and 340 inhabitants. The manor of Thursby was given by Alan, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Its area is 1,271 acres, 1 of which 473 are arable land and 747 permanent grassland. 2 The soil is clay with a subsoil of Keuper Marl, and the chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The village lies to the west of the Droitwich road, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… wanders to the high downland rising in the far south, and stretches down to the borders of Morestead and Owslebury. As the two main roads from Winchester to New Alresford, the one coming through the Worthies and Itchen Abbas, and the other over Magdalen Hill and …
A History of the County of Rutland
… contains 1,293 acres, of which five are covered by water and the greater part of the remainder are laid down to permanent pasture. The subsoil is Inferior Oolite and, by the river, Great Oolite. The Great North Road, which … lying to the north-east of this road contains Warren Wood and the building known as Tickencote Warren. The village is …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of land, of which 294 are arable, 240 permanent grass and 100 woods and plantations, 1 lies immediately to the south of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of the county having the Wiltshire border for its northern and western boundaries. To the east lies Kimpton and to the south Shipton Bellinger. The total area of the … north to south, but is usually dry. The soil is light loam and the subsoil chalk. 1 The principal crops are wheat, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… The parish lies some 15 miles north-east of Bedford and rather over 2 miles south of Kimbolton. There are here … 1,044 acres of arable land, 579 acres of permanent grass and 32 acres of woods and plantation. 1 The principal crops grown in this …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… were transferred to the parish of St. Mary, Reading, and in 1894 the tithing of Theale and part of Calcot hamlet … parish contains 3,281 acres; there are 269 acres of woods or plantations and the remainder is nearly equally … ft. at Kentwood Hill and still higher to the west in the woods near Pincents Farm. The subsoil is Woolwich and Reading …