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A History of the County of Hertford
… is for the most part well over 300 ft., and in the north-west and along the eastern border of the parish it is over … of St. Nicholas, with Munden Bury adjoining, is at the west end of the village, and the rectory about three-quarters … with the remains of a moat, is about the same distance due west of the village. In 1606 it is described as a house …
A History of the County of Hertford
… from Hitchin, are the 'Nine Springs ' from which rises a brook flowing into the Purwell. In the southern part of the … which gave access to the cellars which were under the old west wing, now destroyed. A part of the original wall still … south wall, and there is a small bricked-up window in the west wall, which seems to show that the west wing did not …
A History of the County of Warwick
… country is undulating, rising from about 260 ft. on the west to a little over 500 ft. on the eastern boundary. There … cornice and panels with swags at the top. The east and west fronts have slightly projecting middle and end bays. The … of the original house. In front is a porch-wing, a little west of the middle. The walls are of red brick, in Flemish …
A History of the County of Essex
… 2,232 a. (903 ha.), lay 35 km. NNE of London and 5 km. west of Harlow village. 1 A short branch of the river Stort … boundary with Hertfordshire. Roydon and Nazeing lay to the west, Little Parndon and Netteswell to the east. A detached … end of the parish. The parish is intersected by Todd brook, flowing from the east, and Parndon (or Musket) brook …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… the river Ouse forming the western and the Gallow brook the southern boundaries. There is a ferry over the Ouse called Wrayhouse ferry, in the south-west of the village. The subsoil is chiefly Oxford clay, and … which goes back to the 16th century. College Farm, in the west of the parish, takes its name from St. John's College, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… has a good chimney stack. At White House Farm, at the west end of the village, is an ancient barn. A short distance north-west of this farm is a square homestead moat within which …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the boundary with Oxfordshire is marked partly by a small brook. 1 The flat land beside the Windrush, lying at 400 ft., … of the parish. Small streams flow south, southwest, and west to meet before flowing into the Windrush. From the bowl … alongside the water-courses and a cow-common in the north-west corner of the parish. East of the ridge the land was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… valley gravels along the river valley and the valley of a brook running north-west through the centre of the parish. 4 The parish is roughly rhomboidal in shape, the south-west boundary being formed by the river Cam, and the ancient …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… first sharp turn on entering the village, trending north-west in the direction of Croft. The rectory lies among trees … ft. 4 in., south aisle 7 ft. 7 in. wide, south porch and west bell-turret. On the south of the nave is a 14th-century … capitals and on respond corbels supported on heads. In the west wall are two trefoiled lancet windows with quatrefoils …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Avon until 1809, when it was redefined as a straight line west of it. 6 Elsewhere a road and a stream mark short stretches, but most of the west and south boundaries follow no prominent feature. The … built south of the church in the early 17th century, and Brook Farm in the 16th century on the east side of Park Lane. …