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A History of the County of Hertford
… 1,727 acres are arable land, 686 acres permanent grass, and 138 acres woods and plantations. 1 Nearly all the western half is over 300 …
A History of the County of Hertford
… to Baldock. The village has a plentiful water supply, and the hill on which it stands is almost surrounded by the … 466 ft. above the ordnance datum, is Wallington Bury, and just below it lie the church and rectory faced by the Manor Farm. Below these the street …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from Petham, taking its name from its situation among the woods. It is written in antient records, Temple Waltham, from … This parish is only part of it in the hundred of Bridge and Petham; another part, that is, so much as is in Town … obscutely situated among the hills, and interspersed with woods, having a deep valley running through the midst of it, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… are 1,090 acres of arable land, 1,598 of permanent pasture and 342 of woods and plantations. 1 The parish is low-lying, and near the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the woodland formerly covering the hills to the north-west and south, lies immediately west of Street and 5 km. … of the village. 180 Woodland In 1086 there were demesne woods measuring 7 furlongs by 3 or 4 probably in the south … his land. 185 In 1300 4 bu. of nuts were collected in the woods for the abbey larder 186 and in 13334 alder was used …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 17th century, when the inhabitants of Walton struggled for and won parochial independence. 1 The parish was 649 a. in area 2 and roughly square in shape, bounded on the west by the River Swilgate and on most of the north by the Tirle brook. 3 In 1935 the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… on Thames WALTON ON THAMES Waleton (xi cent.); Waletone and Walletone (xiii cent.); Waletone (xiv cent.); Waletone on … Azor held WALTON Manor, with a mill, meadow land, woods, &c. William the Conqueror granted it to Edward of … loads of timber were obtained from Southwood, or the South Woods, for that purpose. 112 In 1540 Henry VIII purchased …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1 mile WSW. from Chard, extending for 2 miles east to west and 1 mile north to south. Formerly in Dorset, the civil … Beaminster hundred by 1286, in Sherborne hundred in 1346, and by 1428 again in Beaminster, known as the hundred of Beaminster and Redborne in the 19th century. 4 Its northern boundary, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… parish, 4 miles west of Guildford, containing 1,823 acres and measuring about 3 miles from east to west and one from north to south. It is bounded on the north by Ash and Worplesdon, on the east by Compton, on the south by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is roughly rectangular in shape, some 5 miles long and varying from a mile to 2 miles in width. 1 Before 1884 a … parish of Little Hinton. In the 11th century Wanborough and Little Hinton together formed a single estate, though the … 854 apparently describes the boundaries of Little Hinton, and the Domesday entry suggests that Earlscourt, while …