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Magna Britannia
… and appears to have been granted to Sir William West, whose son, Edmund West, Esq., sold it in the year 1570 to Anthony and Gervase … is a farm-house. Walton lies about a mile and a half west from Chesterfield. The manor of Walton was the property, …
Magna Britannia
… a singular ancient mansion, beautifully situated on the west bank of the Tamer, came into the possession of the … division of the hundred of Penwith, lies four miles to the west of Redruth, and eight miles to the north of Helston. The … annum. Cardinham CARDINHAM, in the hundred and deanery of West, lies about four miles nearly west from Bodmin, which is …
A History of the County of Surrey
… The Kent Road ran diagonally from southeast to north-west across the lower part of the parish towards the Thames. … of the parish (now crowned by houses and gardens), to the west of the line of the Crystal Palace High Level railway, … Nunhead, Peckham, Peckham Rye, Dulwich, East Dulwich, West Dulwich and part of Herne Hill (the rest being in …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and Lower Alders. The general fall of the ground is from west to east, the highest point being above the 200 ft. line near Highlands Farm on the west boundary, and the lowest about one hundred and thirty … junction with the road to Campton village. Further to the west, opposite the entrance gates of Chicksands Priory, a …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Newdigate, on the south by the county of Sussex, on the west by Wotton and Ockley. A part of Capel lying across the … parish is 4 miles from north to south and 1 miles east to west, but this projecting tongue makes the breadth at the … soil of the greater part is Wealden Clay, but the north-west part abuts upon the high Green Sands of Leith Hill and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… one isle and one chancel, having a low square tower at the west end. This church was always esteemed as a chapel to the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… his House, as Francis Hacker did of those lying in the west Part towards Bingham; which latter Parcel (belonging to … Church, of which he was also Rector. At the south-west End of the Town lying next Bingham, is situate a …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and plantations. 1 The parish is watered by Cardington Brook, a feeder of the Ouse. The land slopes from the … beans, peas, potatoes and turnips. The village occupies a west central position in the parish, and is grouped around a … Harrowden and Fenlake are small hamlets lying in the north-west of the parish, and in the former there is a Wesleyan …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… cent.). Carisbrooke, once the most extensive parish in the West Medineoriginally stretching from sea to sea and … centuryhas had the parishes of Newport, 1 Northwood and West Cowes 2 taken out of it. Part of Chillerton was … . AVELINE . PASSELEWE.' John Passelewe held land in Brook in the 13th century. Stone, op. cit. ii, plate lxxvi. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… grass and 23 woods and plantations. 1 On the north-west the Ouse divides this parish from Harrold, and in the … in rubble courses with thatch or tile roofs, lie to the west of the Turvey Road. The modern cottages are mostly of … 6 ft. 9 in. wide, and south aisle 8 ft. 8 in. wide, and a west tower 12 ft. 2 in. by 11 ft. 7 in. Early masonry remains …