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Magna Britannia
… The chapelry of Mellor lies about eight miles south-west from Glossop, on the borders of Cheshire, and about the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the Great Oolite series. 3 The Glyme flows from west to east through the middle of the parish before turning … Middle Ages and the 17th century Boxden Lake, flows from west to east through Slape Bottom, where it is joined by … in the fields in the north of the parish and flows south-west into the river Dorn at Wootton. By the early 12th …
A History of the County of Surrey
… being 6 miles north and south, 4 miles east and west. The area is 6,980 acres of land, and 59 of water. The … sense of 'a pound,' is here intended. The meadows to the west, up the Wey, are called Salgasson. In the 14th century … brick fronts. In the outskirts of the town, on the south-west side, the houses are built on high banks above the road, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gravel, bordered by Cornbrash in the valley on the north-west and by the Oxford Clay in the south-east. 3 The greater … in the centre of the parish near Godington Hall. The south-west of the parish is crossed by the Stratton Audley-Poundon … 19 The house is of two stories with attic dormers; a west wing was added in the 19th century, possibly in 1822 …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… The road from St. Neots to Huntingdon enters the town by West Street towards the south end of what was intended for … from London and the north is carried by the road on the west side of the town, through the same place. Entering the … the 17th century and later, on either side. At the north-west corner of East Street stood the vicarage, a 17th-century …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… among them, the hills rise high on each side, those on the west being the sheep walks belonging to Godmersham-house, the … continued possessors of it, till Richard Astyn, gent. of West Peckham, conveyed them, with all lands and tenements …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Houghton. Godsfield Chapel Church At some distance to the west of the house is the site of the preceptory of the … 12th-century foundation. A chapel with livingrooms at the west still stands here, in very good preservation except for … 26 ft. by 13 ft. to the east, and the living-rooms to the west. The east window of the chapel is blocked, but was …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 70 ft. high, it was shattered by lightning in 1831. At the west end of the village is a quaint old stone house with 70 … cent.) was divided as it is now into East (or Upper) and West Appleford so far back as the time of the Great Survey, … the rush pool to the heap of stones, thence to the deep brook; from the deep brook to Beaddingburn, thence north …
A History of the County of Surrey
… part, and the Redhill and Tonbridge line crosses it from west to east, with a station in Godstone over 2 miles from … stand here still, but after the road was diverted further west in the time of Elizabeth, 4 as is supposed, a larger … it exists in the names Stretton or Stratton and Stretton Brook, still existing, and Stanestreet or Stansteadborough, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… branch road which leads to the Sewage Farm, in the south-west of the parish, stand the public elementary school, built … part of the village, which is crossed by a running brook. The Manor Farm stands back from the road opposite … restoration, with the result that excepting a room in the west wing of the first floor, which has some old oak …