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A History of the County of Buckingham
… the Wickham River, which flows through it from Wycombe and enters the Thames at Bourne End. The area is 3,140 acres, … 1,436 of arable land, 699 of permanent grass, 289 of woods and plantations 1 and 21 acres covered by water, and … End, Spring Gardens, Havenslea, The Chequers, North End Woods and Wooburn Common. It is low-lying, the surface of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial. 2 The parish lies between the 200-ft. and 300-ft. contour lines, 3 and slopes gently down to the flat water-meadows along the … have double doors of mahogany inlaid with ebony and other woods, with caps ornamented with rams' heads, swags, and …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… The parish of Wood Walton now contains 3,882 acres of land and 16 acres of water. A considerable part of the parish is … Cromwell sold Wood Walton manor in 1568 to Thomas Cotton and William Lawrence he reserved the Isle of Higney 2 and attached it to Ramsey, forcing his tenants there to pay …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Woodchurch WOOD, alias WOODCHURCH. SOUTH-eastward from, and adjoining to Birchington, lies the ville or parish of … all a wood. It is, as Birchington, a limb of the town and port of Dover, and under the government of the same deputy, and assessed, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… mainly in the Vale of Pewsey some 7 miles from Devizes and 3 miles from Pewsey. 1 It is roughly rectangular but with … 1,023 a. are bounded in the south by the road to Pewsey and by the path which was perhaps an older, more direct, road to Pewsey, and also by a small stream flowing westwards towards …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… WOODCHURCH IS the next parish south-eastward from Halden, and is within the court of the bailiwic of the Seven … being a great part of it; though the manors of Apledore and of Wye claim over some parts of it. This PARISH, which … for Engeham, its original name, lies enveloped by woods, about a mile and an half northward from Woodchurch. It …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… miles west from Litchfield station on the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester line of the Great Western Railway, and 5 miles north-west from Whitchurch. It contains two … arable land, 103 acres of permanent grass and 144 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is rather heavy, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The parish of Woodmancott consists of 1,404 acres of down and country, which rises here to considerable heightsin one … recorded. The village is grouped round St. James's Church and the Manor Farm in the extreme west of the parish. A short … land at 990 acres, permanent grass at 230 acres, and woods and plantations at 295 acres. The chief crops are …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Chalk Downs. It measures some 2 miles from north to south, and a mile from east to west, and contains 1,591 acres. The village stands on a narrow … a down parish. The highest part of it, between the village and the Banstead boundary, is 500 ft. or more above the sea; …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… name according to Verstegan, from the Saxon idol Woden, (and it is spelt by some Wodensborough) whose place of worship … is within the jurisdiction of the justices of the town and port of Sandwich, and liberty of the cinque ports; and the residue is in the …