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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… two isles and a chancel, having a low spire steeple at the west end, and is seemingly of high antiquity. It is dedicated …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… about a dozen scattered farm-houses. Half a mile to the west between Forcett and Stanwick St. John (q.v.) are the … its name to two hamlets on either side of the Tees. To the west of Barforth is Ovington, 12 the birthplace in 1791 of … with due ceremony on certain occasions. In a garden at the west end of the village are several upper stones of querns …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… gravel, clay and sand. The land rises generally east and west from the valley of the Avon from about 84 ft. above the ordnance datum to 181 ft. in the west and 267 ft. in the east. Sandhill Heath was inclosed in … Hall, built in 1879, is almost in the centre. About a mile west of the town is Fordingbridge Station on the London and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mile of the village of Stanton St. John. Part of the north-west boundary was formed by the Bayswater Brook, which rose at the eastern end of the parish and roughly divided it as it flowed west. The road from Stanton St. John to Wheatley Bridge …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Forthampton FORTHAMPTON Forthampton lies on the west bank of the Severn, opposite Tewkesbury. Its rural … regular in shape, stretching over 4 miles from east to west and little more than 1 mile across at any point. 1 The … road, and at the western end the Longdon brook; the southern boundary in large part followed lanes and …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… just within the borders of Thornton-le-Clay in the south-west of the parish. Thornton Moor lies in this direction, … allotment gardens east of it, and beyond, in the south-west of Foston itself, is the Blue Coat School Farm. From the … whilst the Wesleyan chapel is on a side lane to the south-west. The common fields of Foston were inclosed in 1639 or …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… deposits of Taele Gravels in the south-east and north-west corners. 4 The parish is approximately rectangular, with … 5 and part of the north-eastern boundary the Wallington brook, deviating eastwards near the village to include the … for prize fights in the early 19th century. 9 In the north-west the Great Moor and North Moor, c. 200 a. of marshy …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Foxley parish slopes gently from c. 100 m. at the south-west corner to below 76 m. on the Avon in the north-east. … its eastern tributary three streams flow across it from west to east before joining to form a tributary of the Avon. … long been wooded, and a walled park was made in the north-west: 11 parts of the wall survived in 1986. The polo ground …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Foxton FOXTON Foxton lies almost 9.5 km. south-south-west of Cambridge, 1 and covered in 1971 709 ha. (1,752 a.). … from Fowlmere, called by 1315 the Mareway, 4 and further west by an earthwork called once Grim's ditch, later Thriplow … bank. 5 An enclave of Foxton, 15 a., east of the Hoffer brook, recalls the period, in the mid 13th century, before …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Halesowen, the lowest part being in the north-west about 500 ft. above the ordnance datum, near the brook which divides the parish from Hunnington. The parish is … in Northfield, which cuts through the parish from east to west and then turns south towards Bromsgrove, and a road from …