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A History of the County of Hampshire
… at the back of Chalton church, while, away to the south-west, the main road from Petersfield to Portsmouth winds … on the east and Butser Hill 1 and Oxenbourn Down on the west, in the midst of wild and impressive scenery. 2 Butser … and by a narrow winding lane which turns off south-west from the road from Petersfield to South Harting by the …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Below the south front and extending a long distance to the west is a wide terrace, lordly in its dimensions. The view … A fire which occurred in 1908 destroyed the interior west of the central hall and saloon, but the fine staircase, … aisles respectively 8 ft. and 7 ft. wide, north porch, and west tower 8 ft. 6 in. square, all these measurements being …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Burmarsh BURMARSH, THE next parish south westward from West Hythe, lies in Romney Marsh, and within the liberty and … of one isle and a chancel, having a tower at the west end, which, as well as the isle, is embattled. In it are …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 101. The small parish, 1 miles in length from east to west and mile in breadth, is bounded on the south and west by the River Stour. The road from Shipston-on-Stour to … is covered with stone tiles. The old Manor House, south-west of the churchyard, appears to be of early-16th-century …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Lane, the great Roman road to the north, runs north-west and south-east through the parish, and half a mile to the west of it is a parallel lane connecting Exelby on the north … grounds planted with elm, ash and sycamore. To the north-west of the church are the Robinson Almshouses, founded in …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Inn, a 17th-century brick and timber house on the west side, a farm, and the school and some 17th-century … like unconverted infidels in church. 6 The vicarage to the west of the church was practically rebuilt in 1833; it had … Hawkshill, 22 Lydden, 23 Libsies, 24 and Droppingwell with Brook End, which covered 20 acres, 25 passed with Abbess Park …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south of Newmarket. 1 It stretches 6 miles from north-west of the main London-Newmarket road to the Suffolk border … 1 mile wide, but narrows to less than mile in the north-west where Westley Waterless has been cut out of it. From … that of the county. Parts of the north-east and south-west boundaries follow watercourses near the south-east end …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… bank of the Hamble River, which is here tidal. The north-west boundary of the parish touches the eastern side of … line from Netley to Fareham enters the parish at the south-west, and running north-east has a station on the river bank … turns sharply to the south-east and again to the south-west. The steepness of the path and the combination of woods …
A History of the County of Surrey
… by Horne, on the south by the county of Sussex, on the west by Horley, a detached part of Horne, and Nutfield. It … of the parish a ridge of higher land runs from east to west, formed by a bed of Paludina Limestone. It yields stone, … parish, for the main Brighton line and road pass to the west of it, the South Eastern line to the north of it. It is …
A History of the County of Warwick
… which point the northern boundary runs along a road due west for 1 miles and then follows hedgerows southwards to … reaches a height of 692 ft. About 100 ft. below and to the west of the summit lies the church, and here presumably was … at the top suggesting former machicolations. On the south-west side is a blocked doorway retaining the springing stones …