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A History of the County of Northampton
… 300 ft. above the Ordnance datum. The subsoil is Great and Inferior Oolite. One of the many small streams of the … the parish in the south. Twywell station, on the Kettering and Huntingdon branch of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, lies to the south-east of the village. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 700 ft. From here the ground falls sharply to the west, and on the steep side of the hill near Sunrising was at one time a figure of a horse, cut in the red sandstone and known as the Red Horse. 1 A 'tradition', not apparently … it scoured was imposed on the holder of Red Horse Farm and was apparently still kept up, or perhaps revived, in the …
Magna Britannia
… UFFCULM, a decayed market-town, in the hundred of Bampton and in the deanery of Tiverton, lies on the borders of … about five miles from Collumpton, 17 from Exeter, and about 189 from London. A market at this place on Wednesday, and two fairs, one for three days at the festival of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… which 939 acres are arable land, 506 acres permanent grass and 604 acres woodland. 1 The soil is sand and gravel with a subsoil of clay, and there are several gravel-pits in the district. The …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 181; 1921, 187; 1931, 208. This is a small parish and village on the main road from Northampton to Warwick, 2 … Two small streams rise near the centre of the parish and flow eastwards to the Itchen at Southam, and northwards to join a nameless tributary of the Leam …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from East Sutton. It is usually pronounced Uckham, and is variously spelt in antient records; in Domesday it is written Olecumbe, in others Wulcombe, and of late Ulcomb. Part of this parish below, or to the … the borough of Kingsnorth, is in the lath of Scray and hundred of Faversham, it having formerly belonged to the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… parish on 27 June 1861, including Aspley, Forde Hall, and Mockley, all of which were formerly separate manors. … of Ullenhall. The village is known as Ullenhall Street, and is surrounded by well-wooded country. The Village Hall … a late-16th-century house with a projecting upper story and porch-wing on the north front. Much of the original …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Up Nately is situated 4 miles east from Basingstoke and 2 miles south-west from Hook station on the main line of the London and South Western Railway. The parish contains 1,143 acres of … arable land, 281 acres of permanent grass and 122 acres of woods and plantations. 2 Among place-names found in early …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… opens into the Vale of Pewsey, some 9 miles from Devizes and Marlborough and 8 miles from Amesbury. 1 The parish is shaped roughly … village beside it. From the village the narrow western arm and the wider eastern arm reach up to Salisbury Plain, 4 and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LIES the next parish northward from that of Hartlip, and is so named from its high situation. This parish lies in a most unhealthy situation, close to the marshes, and a large extent of some hundreds of acres of salts beyond … and shipping of corn, and the produce of the neighbouring woods. The creek, called by the same name, flows up by it …