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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westwood is 2.5 km. south-west of Bradford on Avon and 4 km. north-west of Trowbridge. 1 On the south-west and west it adjoins Somerset and, since 1974, the new county … century. 155 Both Avoncliff, 54 a., and Becky Addy, 36 a., woods were part of the Westwood Manor estate in 1911. 156 In …
A History of the County of Worcester
… in the territoryes of the Sayes, Barons of Bureford and Lordes of Wichbaud, was by their indulgence made a parish … Hadley Mill, passing the site of the nunnery and through woods called Westwood to Boycott Bridge, and so on to … of Westwood. 20 The park was originally planted with oak woods radiating from the house. The oak is very rapidly …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… over two-thirds are permanent grass. 1 The soil is loam and clay, the subsoil gravel, and the chief crops raised are oats, wheat and barley. Gravel is worked and ragstone is also found. The …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Weybridge WEYBRIDGE Webrige and Webruge, 1086; Waybrugg (xii cent.); Weybrigge juxta … by the Thames. It measures 3 miles from north to south and 1 mile from east to west, and contains 1,330 acres of land and 41 of water. It is …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 1,214 acres of arable land, 434 acres of permanent grass and 124 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is light gravel, the subsoil …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cam or Rhee in the north to c. 23 metres in the south and west. It lies mainly on the Lower Chalk which overlies … the Gault except in the northern corner of the parish, and there is a narrow strip of alluvium along the river … in shape, the northern boundary following the river and most of the south-eastern boundary following the Hoback …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Whauddone, Whaddon (xiixiii cent.). Whaddon is a village and rural parish, its total area being 2,525 acres, of which, … in 1905, 184 were arable land, 1,907 permanent grass, and 260 woods and plantations. 1 It is watered by several small …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… who was charged to the Tax for his Manor here, as two Car. and an half. The Land being then accounted sufficient for … Car. twenty-eight Vill. twelve Bord. having nine Car. and one Mill, 4s. and eighty Acres of Meadow. There was one (Molaria ubi …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lying at the foot of the Chilterns between Watlington and Thame. The modern acreage is 740 acres, but until 1886 … Haseley Brook which separates Wheatfield from Tetsworth and Adwell in the north and east. 3 The parish lies mostly … the demesne, except for the manor-house with 30 acres of woods and gardens, was divided between the two tenant farmers …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Forest from Winchester to Cirencester. Along the eastern and south-eastern boundary flows the Test, the vicinity of … arable land, 701 acres of permanent grass and 511 acres of woods and plantations. 1 Some 34 acres are covered by water. … both armies upon his tenants and the cutting down of his woods by the soldiers; and now it was intended to make his …