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A History of the County of Surrey
… miles from north to south, and under 2 miles from east to west, tapering to the south, and includes 1,817 acres of land … six more were found in 1906. The bodies lay with heads to west-by-south and south-west, and Mr. Smith attributes the burials to the 5th or 6th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with the Nadder and measured 1.5 km. from east to west. A narrow strip, in most places no more than 125 m. … became Fifield Bavant parish were, like those east and west of them, part of Wilton abbey's estate called Chalke. 3 … rough pasture and the arable lands of the parish lay west and north of Fifield Bavant hamlet and in the northern …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish until the mid 19th century. 3 It lies east-west and is crossed from north to south by the Christchurch … and Syrencot to the east, Alton and Knighton to the west. Figheldean had a church, and Ablington, Knighton, and … Robin Hood's Ball, straddles the boundary on the west. The Avon forms two stretches of the boundary, and in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Bourne River, a tributary of the River Tame, and on the west by two small streams running respectively north and … roads on the north and south, linked by a third on the west. The old parish boundary skirts Kinwalsey and then runs south-east by Birchley Hays Wood, along the Pickford Brook for a short distance and then north-east over Corley …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… which is now in the garden of Banisters. The house called West Court stands on the road. 5 Under the years 1029, 1098, … fair was held on the first Wednesday in April within the West Court Manor, 9 but this is also no longer held, and the … The church stands on an eminence about half a mile north-west of the village, which has the usual type of red brick …
A History of the County of Northampton
… prominent landmark. The rectory house stands on the north-west of the church and is a well-designed building of two … the same street, built in 1847 and by the Bell Inn. At the west end of the town is the Old Hall or manor house which was … twenty years later, 3 but it incorporates on the north-west side some rooms belonging to a former structure, which …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… ft. 2 in. by 15 ft. 10 in., north aisle 7 ft. 2 in. and a west porch. These dimensions are all internal. A church … doorway and the jambs of an earlier window, while to the west is another blocked squareheaded doorway apparently … are wider; both windows are late 14thcentury insertions. West of the second window are a straight joint and the quoins …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… runs the road from Great Marlow to Oxford in the south-west. The parish is well-wooded, containing some 206 acres, 2 … Fingest is picturesquely situated in a hollow in the south-west of the parish surrounded by steep hills covered with … by 14 ft., nave 40 ft. by 13 ft. 6 in., south porch, and west tower 19 ft. 6 in. square. The peculiar plan of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ancient and modern village lies to the north of a small brook, which was covered over in 1872. 9 The village is … several outlying farm-houses: Widmore Farm in the south-west of the parish, Warren Farm to the west of the village, Finmere Grounds to the north, probably …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… valley to the plain is fairly gentle except in the south-west corner of the parish where the slope forms an almost sheer cliff of chalk. In the north-west corner a steep sided coomb, made by a now dry tributary … group of bowl-barrows and a long barrow is situated on the west side of Weather hill. 3 Several stretches of bank and …