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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to south, and between two and three miles from east to west. The soil, excepting in the vale, where it is a fertile … a great height, is another part of this town, called the Brook, from its having been built on land of that name, … of the dock-yard, at Brompton, in the year 1756, on the west side, a little below the summit of the hill, at the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Chalk Downs, 3 miles north-east of Epsom, 5 miles south-west of Croydon. It measures about 3 miles from north-west to south-east, and is about a mile wide, of a regular … to a few flint flakes picked up on the Downs. The Beverley Brook rises in the chalk in Cheam parish. The London, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… The soil is of Oxford Clay and the subsoil of gault. West End and South End Hills, in the south-west of the parish, are, however, composed of chalk, which has been worked in a pit at the base of West End Hill. Here the elevation above the ordnance datum …
A History of the County of Bedford
… main road running north-east from Felmersham to the south-west of the parish, where it passes to Carlton. It is said … 7 ft. 2 in. wide, south aisle 6 ft. 3 in. wide, and a west tower 9 ft. 6 in. square, with a tall stone spire. No … c. 1330 and the south some thirty years later. The fine west tower was added about the middle of the same century, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… obt. April 25, anno 1417. On the south side, at the west end of the chancel, is a mural monument, for John Brown, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Chellesham (xiii cent.). Chelsham lies 5 miles south-west of Croydon, on the borders of Kent, and to the east of … has been very much dug into at various times. On the south-west of the road from Warlingham to Westerham, which crosses … eastern side of the heath, beyond a little pine wood south-west of the road, and to the north of the heath, and in a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… changes took place in the 15th century, when the present west window of the nave was put in and the chancel probably … form in 1849, in which year the church was restored and a west gallery pulled down. The church is built throughout of … and aisle arches, and giving support to the tower. At the west end of the nave are massive buttresses of two stages to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… church is placed. It falls away to under 300 ft. in the west and to 270 ft. in the extreme south-east near Chorley … round the cottages. A road leads to the church on the west, behind which is Great Home Farm, while opposite stands … of Bedford. A road running parallel with the river leads west through park-land bordered by woods to Dell Farm, near …
A History of the County of Warwick
… near the centre of the parish, it is crossed from east to west by the River Stour. The country is hilly, rising rapidly … Dairy', a two-storied building about 500 yds. south-west of the church, now two tenements. The north front towards the road is of two periods, the west half being built of coursed rough ashlar and the east …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… centre of the parish. Cheriton Wood lies away to the north-west of the parish, while stretching west of the wood is the wide plain on which the Battle of … are two or three groups of thatched cottages facing south-west, while along the north side of the road runs the high …