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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… beans, but most of the land is pasture. A stream runs from west to east through the middle of the parish, where the land … nearest railway station is at Raunds, 3 miles to the south-west. Manor Alfwold (d. 990), younger brother of Aylwin, the … north aisle (4 ft. wide), south aisle (41 ft. by 8 ft.), west tower (8 ft. by 7 ft.) and south porch. The walls are …
Magna Britannia
… and part of Frogmore. Charleton is divided into East and West Charleton. The manor belonged, in ancient times, … Cheriton-Fitzpaine CHERITON-FITZPAINE, in the hundred of West-Budleigh and in the deanery of Cadbury, lies about eight …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Street at Markyate, and there is also a road running north-west from Caddington village which meets the Icknield Way a … Green, at which there is a cemetery, are to the north and west of Slip End. The entire population is employed in … the surface of the land is fairly uniform, rising to the west. The River Ver rises in the parish and runs near the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Street at Markyate, and there is also a road running north-west from Caddington village which meets the Icknield Way a … Green, at which there is a cemetery, are to the north and west of Slip End. The entire population is employed in … the surface of the land is fairly uniform, rising to the west. The River Ver rises in the parish and runs near the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 5 The two doors adjoining are but a foot apart, and the west wall is pierced by a curious square-headed window, … hall from the main house is by a modern door in the north-west angle. The undercroft was originally entered by a … a remodelling took place. Windows were inserted in the west wall, the chancel was lengthened, if not rebuilt, and …
A History of the County of Hertford
… 325 acres in extent, forms part of the plain in the north-west of the county. The highest part of the parish is in the … here the ground has a gradual slope downwards to the north-west to a level of 157 ft. near the bed of the Cat Ditch, a … manor-house with a few farm buildings lies in the south-west of the parish near the church. These are the only …
A History of the County of Warwick
… arable and pasture. 1 There are quarries in the south-west corner of the parish at Caldecote Hill, where a height … Street, separating it from Leicestershire, and on the west by the River Anker. A branch road from Watling Street … ST. CHAD consists of a chancel, organ-chamber, nave with a west turret, south porch, and north vestry in place of a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Caldecote CALDECOTE Caldecote lies 6 miles west of Cambridge. In shape the parish is a long, narrow … from St. Neots to Cambridge and on the south by the Bourn brook. A tributary of the Bourn brook running in a depression … beside Hardwick wood before joining Cambridge way. On the west St. Ives way ran north-westwards across Bourn parish. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Washingley. It is a narrow strip of country running from west to east, and crossed by the Ermine Street. The eastern … land rises to about 200 feet above Ordnance datum in the west. The soil and subsoil are clay with some gravel, and the … parish, with the church about a quarter of a mile to the west. There are three 17th-century cottages, timber framed …
A History of the County of Rutland
… where the parish and county boundary is formed by the Eye Brook and River Welland. The village is about 4 miles from … Eye Brook by a stone bridge with brick parapets, to the west of which is the mill, now disused. In a will of 1615 … by 17 ft., south aisle 12 ft. 3 in. wide, south porch, and west tower 10 ft. square, all these measurements being …