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A History of the County of Bedford
… 762 acres consist of arable land, 505 of permanent grass and 183 of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is gravel, the subsoil gravel and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Dartford. In the Textus Roffensis it is written Wilmentuna and Wilmintune. THIS PARISH may be well said to be aptly situated both for pleasure and health, the quantity of cherrygrounds which encircle the … distance eastward from the gate near Ruxley farm. In the woods hereabout, there have been found quantities of bricks …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… tithing, co-terminous with the modern civil parish, and Manningford Bohune, a detached tithing about 2 miles … three settlements, Wilsford village, in Wilsford tithing, and the hamlets of Bohune and Bottlesford in that of Bohune, stand considerably distant …
A History of the County of Bedford
… acres, of which 1,615 are arable land, 815 permanent grass and 198 woods and plantations. 1 The woods known as Wilshamstead Wood, St. Macute's Wood (commonly …
A History of the County of Surrey
… including the common, which consists of about 1,000 acres, and recreation grounds taking up about 35 acres. The parish … the Beverley Brook, which forms its western boundary, and the River Wandle, which skirts its eastern boundary. Both … increased from 25,777 during the preceding ten years, 1 and from about 6,000 since 1865. 2 The high gravel which caps …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… country is much the same as Nonington last-described, open and uninclosed arable land and downs, but the soil is still less fertile, being more chalky and stony. The village, having the church in it, is nearly in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… east of Ermine Street, the former Great North Road, and contains 2,468 a. 1 Wimpole Hall, the finest country … in Cambridgeshire, stands in the east part of the parish, and its park lies over the ancient site of the village. An … the result of decorative planting in the park. 200 Several woods existed in the 16th century. 201 In the 18th century, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the north-east of Odiham containing 1,582 acres of land, and 9 acres of land covered by water. The London and South Western Railway passes through the north of the parish and has a station, called Winchfield Station, at Shapley …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the county, 25 miles from London. It contains 5,672 acres, and measures 5 miles from north-east to south-west, and 3 miles from north-west to southeast. It is bounded on the north-west by Berkshire, on the east and south by Chobham, on the west by Frimley. It is in Woking …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Windrush, lying about half-way between Northleach and Burford (Oxon.), south of the River Windrush which forms its northern boundary and from which the parish takes its name, 1 is 1,834 a. in area 2 and regular in shape. The land rises from the river in the …