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A History of the County of Surrey
… as permanent grass, whilst there were 8 acres of woodland and 5 still cultivated as arable land. The soil is the alluvium of the Thames and Wandle, a gravel terrace originally deposited by the … about 50 ft. above the ordnance datum except in the east and south-east, where it rises to 100 ft. The River Wandle 2 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Parishes Wappenbury and Eathorpe WAPPENBURY AND EATHORPE Wappenbury Acreage: 953. Population: 1911, 74; … 1911, 153; 1921, 142; 1931, 140. The parish of Wappenbury and hamlet of Eathorpe lie on the banks of the Leam, about 4 …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… datum in the south to 2 ft. in the fen-land 1 in the north and north-east. Nearly threequarters of the area is arable, upon which potatoes are largely grown and also corn, beans, etc. Warboys Wood and Pingle Wood are the only remaining pieces of woodland and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chapelry (2,572 a.) 1 included the hamlets of Williamscot and Coton, with which it had been linked for administrative … probably always dependent, since it had no separate manor, and Williamscot, though taxed separately until the 17th … 2 was probably always included in Wardington chapelry and became increasingly dependent as government through the …
A History of the County of Rutland
… (xiv cent.). The parish of Wardley comprises 748 acres and lies on the borders of Leicestershire. The soil is clay and the subsoil consists of Middle and Lower Lias and Inferior Oolite. The land falls from the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… parish now divided into the civil parishes of Ware Urban and Ware Rural, the latter including an area of about 4,208 … against Edward II, and was by her made justice of all forests south of the Trent and Constable of the Tower of … name of the manor and tenement called Newhall, with two woods called Abbottes Gardeyn containing 1 acres, and Tyle …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… stands, is within the eastern division of the county, and lath of Shipway. So much as is in the borough of Great … the hundred of Blackborne, western division of the county, and lath of Scray. That part which is in the hundred of Ham, … HAM AND CAPEL lie within this parish, the latter among the woods near the northern boundary of it, and the former, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… WARESLEY Wedreslei (xi cent.), Wereslai, Werisleg (xii and xiii cents.), Werisley (xvi cent.). The parish of … contains 2,031 acres. 1 It is well wooded, the chief woods being Waresley Wood, Weavely Wood and Sand Wood. There … mentioned in Domesday Book 65 and the damage done to the woods of both manors by the afforestation carried out by …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… grass (2,184 acres). There are 871 acres of arable land and 120 acres of woods and plantations. 2 The subsoil is mainly London Clay; … of Sir John de Newenham held lands, 38 meadows, pastures, woods and rents in Warfield, possibly identical with this …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… which more than half are grass, while 188 are covered by woods and plantations. 1 It is bounded on the west by the River Loddon and by the Thames, and in the extreme north, near Culham …