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A History of the County of Gloucester
… the parish and county boundary is formed by the Westcote Brook. Another stream runs south-east across the parish to … In 1862 the Bourton-onthe-Water railway, which runs north-west across the parish from Kingham station (a mile east of … clerestoried nave, south aisle, south porch, and embattled west tower. The church was lavishly rebuilt in the 15th …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of the Holy Trinity, erected in 18501, stands to the west of the old village, and nearer to the busy main road which passes through Horndean. To the north-west is Crookley, the residence of Mr. G. A. Gale, J.P.; … north vestry, nave with south aisle and south porch, and west turret with spire. It was built at a cost of nearly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and east of the parish lies on the Oxford Clay. To the west the clay is bordered successively by Cornbrash, Forest … the 18th century Davis's map shows two largish woods, one west of the Brackley road and Blackleys, the only modern … Annals (1872), 4. For the 13th-cent. Curtleford Brook see Oseney Cart. vi. 95. See map on p. 63. Davis, Oxon. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xiv cent.). Bletsoe is a parish about 6 miles north-west of Bedford on the road to Higham Ferrers. It contains … slope of the ground is irregular, but chiefly from east to west; the greatest height attained above the ordnance datum is 293 ft. in the north, the lowest 132 ft. in the west of the parish. The River Ouse flows through the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… is chalk and Upper Greensand. In the north, near the Mill Brook, the land is less than 200 ft. above the ordnance … by 11 ft. 4 in., south aisle 48 ft. 3 in. by 11 ft. 2 in., west tower 14 ft. 10 in. square, a timber south porch, and a … 15th century the south aisle was widened and the present west tower was built, the upper stages of the central tower, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and south aisles, 11 ft. 6 in. wide; north porch, and west tower, 9 ft. 10 in. by 9 ft. 6 in., all these … to date accurately without documentary evidence. Further west, its sill considerably higher than the others, is an … like those opposite, and at a lower level in the south-west angle of the chancel a plain rectangular low-side …
A History of the County of Worcester
… and Paxford. The village of Blockley lies in the south-west part of the parish on two hill-slopes and has a station … Elizabethan house which had belonged to the Childes. The west front is early Georgian. There is still a fine … stands to the north of Aston Magna, not far from Knee Brook. Dorn is situated on the west side of the Fosse Way, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bloxham parish lies on gently rising ground 3 miles south-west of Banbury. 1 The ancient parish, out of which the … partly followed the meandering course of the Sor Brook in the north and east, and of the River Swere in the … on the old High Street, and the Little Bridge to the west of the old High Street; there were also Cumberford …
A History of the County of Bedford
… the neighbourhood of the Ouse, which waters the north and west of the parish, and of the Ivel in the east, and is liable to floods. The slope is from south-west, where it attains 182 ft. above ordnance datum, to north-west, where it is in parts only 60 ft. above ordnance datum. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… that are fed by surface water, called 'sock' wells. On the west, near the Somersham road, is a chalybeate spring, where … or Inhams, stretching from Bluntisham to Earith. North-west of Higham Field lay Barnfield Farm and until … 11 This bridge, called the Great Bridge, was over the West Water, which dried up after the Bedford Rivers were …