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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… shrunk to a Vicarage, but I have not seen how. [Throsby] West-Bridgeford LORDSHIP is old Inclosure; and owned …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the southern parishes of the Island, about 7 miles south-west from Newport, was formerly included in Calbourne, but … Nicholas, and from this date the manor, like that of West Tisted 44 (q.v.), remained in the Tichborne family until … Winchester in 1086, 49 belonged to the Mackerels, lords of Brook, in the early 13th century. Thus in 1201 Ralph brother …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The highest point attained is 665 ft. in the north-west corner of the parish, and the lowest at the south-east … of late and there is a little down land in the north-west corner, the total area of grass land is only 176 acres. … though the Hungerford and Wantage road touches the north-west corner. There are many lanes and byways, and a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… parish extends from the Thames on the north to the Moreton Brook on the south. The soil is sandy loam, resting partly on … when it was made to form a turnpike road by Didcot into west Berkshire about 1800. 4 Several byways cross southward … Bridge. The course of the Saxon highway from east to west is seen in a direct line in a foot-path across Slade End …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… 40 ft. by 24 ft. within the walls, with a tower at the west, all in the dull Gothic of the time. The interior of the … are also some remains of a low-side window at the south-west. The north wall shows nothing earlier than a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Kennet and on the south for some distance by the Enborne Brook, which then crosses the parish and again for a time … lies at the end of a ridge, the highest point, in the west of the parish, being 340 ft. above the ordnance datum, … high road from Newbury to Silchester runs through it from west to east. Shalford Fram, Brimpton The village lies at the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… to south and covers 1,055 acres. The land rises from the brook forming the southern boundary, where the height is a … of a chancel (29 ft. by 19 ft.), nave (40 ft. by 19 ft.), west tower (9 ft. by 8 ft.) and south porch. The walls are of … corbels; the eastern tie-beam bears the date 1674. The west tower, built about 1370, has a two-centred tower-arch of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Brinkley, which covers 1,303 a., lies 5 miles south-west of Newmarket and 10 miles east of Cambridge. 1 It is long and narrow, being 5 miles from north-west to south-east and less than a mile across at its widest … area Brinkley stretches from chalk heathland in the north-west to the originally wooded area of boulder clay in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the main street running parallel about mile to the west. The land is fairly level, being mostly around the 300-ft. contour. The Smite Brook bounds the parish on the north, and the Oxford Canal … Church The parish church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, on the west side of the main street, stands in a small churchyard on …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the eastwest part of which was marked by Brinkworth brook, had been fixed by the early 13th century; 9 that with … village, passed east of the village on a roughly north-west and south-east line, and followed Brinkworth brook on … northern boundary was marked by a road at its east and west ends, from 1884 for its whole length. Woodbridge brook …