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Magna Britannia
… Topsham - Twitchen Topsham TOPSHAM, an ancient market and seaport town, lies in the hundred of Wonford and in the deanery of Aylesbeare, about three miles and a half from Exeter. The village of Weare is in this …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of Toseland contains 1,342 acres of land. The soil is clay and the subsoil Oxford clay and Ampthill clay, growing cereal crops. The land is high and is mainly agricultural. Gallow Brook runs through the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Parishes Totteridge TOTTERIDGE Taterugg, Titerege (xiii and xiv cent.); Tateryche, Thariges, Taregh (xv and xvi cent.); Tatteridge (xvii cent.). The parish of … is entirely separate from the rest of the hundred, and lies about 10 miles south of Hatfield. It was till 1892 a …
A History of the County of Bedford
… are arable land, producing crops of wheat, barley, beans and turnips, 347 acres of permanent grass and 16 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The soil and subsoil are chalk. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… is one of the detached parishes of Worcestershire and lies to the south-east of the county proper. Included in this parish are the township of Tredington and the hamlets of Blackwell, Darlingscott, Newbold-on-Stour … 1 of which 1,639 are arable, 3,430 permanent grass and 17 woods. 2 The chief crops raised are wheat, beans, barley and …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.). Until 1894 Tring included the hamlets of Wilstone and Long Marston, and was a large and spreading parish comprising hills, uplands, and low plain, extensive woods and large sheets of water, and monotonous stretches of … land slopes gradually down to a height of 400 ft. Large woods of beech and fir extend over a great part of the hills, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… containing not more than one thousand acres of land, and thirty-two houses and cottages. The situation of it is, … but thinly inhabited, and much covered with coppice woods, the soil of which is a heavy tillage land, consisting … at four pence, and the pasture of the meadows and the out-woods at twenty shillings, that the annual rent amounted to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… west of the county. The parish boundary between Trowbridge and Hilperton, as it then ran across Hilperton Marsh, was … separate Orders of 1897 parts of the parishes of Hilperton and Steeple Ashton were included within the urban district … carved chest for records was presented in 1911 by F. H. Woods, of Trowle Farm, Wingfield. 1077 Two chalices, two …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 To the west it was bounded by the river Cam or Granta, and to the north and north-east by a tributary brook and, further south, by the main road, called since the 19th …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… are 372 acres of arable land, 344 acres of permanent grass and 384 acres of woodland. Tubney Wood covers a large area, 2 and in 1631 it was proposed to use the oaks for the navy. 3 … The subsoil is Corallian Beds, the soil sand. Sand-pits and quarries on the Heath were in use within living memory; …