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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Western railway to a point called Hendred Knoll on the West Ilsley and Farnborough Road. About a mile to the north, … and below the southern one a square locker. Further west on the north side is a blocked arch of brick … just below it, at the point where the Portway crosses the brook, is now known as Ludbridge. Downside House, on the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… by Effingham, on the south by Shere and Abinger, on the west by West Horsley. It measures 4 miles from north to south, and threequarters of a mile from east to west. It contains 1,826 acres. The elongated form is common …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the township. 2 The chief slope of the land is from south-west to south-east, where the height varies between 600 ft. … Road. The Icknield Way, entering the parish from the north-west at the north of the village, runs in a south-easterly … is on the east side of the Newbury road at the south-west of the village. The cottages and houses are generally …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… EAST KENNETT East Kennett, 319 ha. (788 a.), lies 7 km. west of Marlborough, separated from West Kennett in Avebury to the north by the river Kennet from … Book it was used of holdings which were later in East and West Kennett. 3 The lands of Kennett then probably lay north …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 228 a. (92 ha.). 1 The parish, on a north-east to south-west axis some 27 km. west of Salisbury and 6 km. ESE. of Mere, was rectangular, … parish boundaries were straight. The western boundary with West Knoyle, described in a mid-10th-century charter, was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LANGDON, SO called in regard to the adjoining parish of West Langdon, and from the two words, langeand dune, … this parish, is much the same as in the adjoining ones of West Langdon and Guston, described in the former part of this … to it sometime since in respect to the poor rates, Guston, West Langdon, Little Mongeham, Great Mongeham, Sutton, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… about 1 mile from north to south, and from east to west. The course of the Foss Way forms the whole of its … and situated about 2 miles north-east, was transferred to West Lydford in 1884. 2 By 1901 the parish contained 644 a. 3 The civil parishes of East and West Lydford were amalgamated in 1933. 4 The soil of the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and is a pleasant spot, though surrounded on the east and west sides by large tracts of coppice woods. The park of … Meallingas, to the nunnery of the adjoining parish of West Malling, founded by Gundulph, bishop of Rochester, his … which the queen granted this manor in lease to Sir Henry Brook alias Cobham, knt. fifth son of George, lord Cobham; …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the most part to the south of the road from Petersfield to West Meon, which here makes a sharp descent from Barrow Hill. … Le RoyLewis, stands in a park of 100 acres two miles west of the village on the borders of West Meon parish. A … Prior's Dean upon the north-east to the rising of a little brook in Brooker's mead, and so by that little brook to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of East Peckham from its situation eastward from West or Little Peckham, and of Great, from its large extent … is watered by a small stream, which rises near Yokes, in West Peckham, and runs through this parish into the river. … is a fair large building, with a square tower at the west end. It stands near the summit of the hill almost …