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A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Titsey TITSEY Ticesie (xi cent.); Tichesey and Tycheseye (xiii and xiv cent.); Tytsay (xv cent.). Titsey is a small parish … Surrey. It measures 2 miles from north-west to south-east and rather over a mile the other way. It contains 1,988 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Tockenham lies 3 miles south-west of Wootton Bassett and covers 779 a. 1 It is a narrow oblong and measures some 2 miles in length and mile in breadth. The small village lies along the western …
A History of the County of Bedford
… are arable land, producing wheat, barley, oats, beans and peas, 2,524 are permanent grass and 113 woods and plantations. 1 The ground is undulating and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… lies in the north-east corner of the county, its northern and south-eastern boundaries being the county boundary with … it is three miles north-east of Moreton-inMarsh and four miles south-west of Shipston-onStour. The parish, which is oval in shape and 2,481 a. in area, 1 includes the hamlet formerly known as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Toft consists of 1,285 a. 1 It is bounded on the east and west by the parishes of Caldecote and Comberton, and may once, like those parishes, have stretched north as …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… near the Dorset boundary 23 km. south-west of Salisbury, 1 and Tollard Royal parish consisted of lands in Wiltshire and Dorset. The Wiltshire lands were those of the village, … 100 a. of pasture in the parish were several. The lord's woods, then c. 140 a. in the Wiltshire and Dorset parts of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… After the arrival of the Saxons in this kingdom, and their victory over the Scots and Picts, at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, Vortigern, king of … with the conduct of the two Saxon chiefs, Hengist and Horsa, expressed himself very desirous of rewarding them …
A History of the County of Oxford
… narrow neck of land on its western boundary, its northern and southern parts were separated by Marsh Baldon. There are … record of its history and final decay. The parish's only woods now lie on the boundary with Nuneham, where there was … in the 19th century. 9 Instances of poaching in Nuneham Woods in the 17th century are recorded. 10 The parish 11 lies …
A History of the County of Surrey
… 1 In the 18th century the land was chiefly arable, 2 and a considerable proportion of the inhabitants were engaged … borough of Wandsworth. No arable land now remains and there are only 21 acres of permanent grass. The soil is London clay and the gravel and sand of the river deposits. The average …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Marton-le-Moor, Rainton with Newby, Skipton-upon-Swale and Topcliffe. All these are now separate civil parishes; and Baldersby (now including Rainton with Newby), Dishforth, … to Gallows Green, where the lord's gallows stood in the woods in the 13th century. 9 Until recently the green was an …