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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… a smithy and a windmill, is about a third of a mile to the west of the Highway on a bye-road to Pertenhall (co. Bed.). … Staughton: Place House before restoration To the north-west of the church, on the opposite side of the road, is … it was rebuilt. 11 A farmhouse on the north bank of Duloe Brook opposite Bushmead Priory represents the former manor of …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… east. The land is low-lying and fertile; towards the south-west, where Alconbury Brook forms part of the boundary, the pasture land is liable … ft.), north aisle (16 ft. wide), south aisle (8 ft. wide) west tower (12 ft. by 12 ft.), and a south porch. The walls …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 3,007 a. (1,217 ha.) lies 16 miles (26 km.) north-west of Oxford and 8 miles (13 km.) south-west of Banbury on the edge of the north Oxfordshire uplands. … few surviving 18th-century houses is Tulip Tree cottage on Brook Road, which has wooden mullioned and transomed windows, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… rectangular in shape, with a projection reaching north-west to the road from Tewkesbury to Evesham which formed part … followed the post-1931 county boundary to the Washbourne brook, which marked the south-west boundary of the parish. From the brook, the southeast …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… GREAT WISHFORD Great Wishford village is 8.5 km. north-west of Salisbury. 1 The parish measures 680 ha. (1,679 a.). … and there is also a small area of clay-with-flints on the west side of the village. Near the Wylye, at c. 60 m., there … to have crossed the south-east end of the parish, running west from the Wylye and north of Heath wood. 8 Also to the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… WITLEY Wyteleye (xiv cent.). This parish lies in the north-west of the county, at the foot of a range of well-watered … reached at Woodbury Hill. Wallsgrove Hill, to the north-west of it, is over 800 ft., and 900 ft. is again reached on … The site of the earlier manor-house was a mile away to the west, where the Home Farm now stands. This is partly …
A History of the County of Durham
… to about 100 ft. above the ordnance datum in the north-west of the township of Claxton, and most of the parish is … running south from the high road between Wolviston and West Hartlepool. In the 15th century an attempt was made to … Midsummer.' The hospital of Greatham stands on the west side of the village street. The buildings date only from …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to distinguish it from Deptford, which was called West Greenwich. It was not so famous formerly for its … &c. in two sheets, near a yard long, in 1637A north-west view was published by Buck Another from the Observatory, … of Dartmouth's, and on the opposite side, at the south west corner of Greenwich-park are the late duke os …
A History of the County of Rutland
… 3,081 acres. The land falls gradually about 100 ft. from west to the eastern boundary, where it is about 300 ft. above … shows a declining population. The stream called the North Brook flows through the village in a south-westerly direction … a lane leading to the church, which stands to the north-west of the village. Most of the cottages have stone or tile …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of pontage in 1332. 1 The boundary then runs up the Innage Brook between Grendon and Atherstone to the Watling Street, … and up the street for mile. It then diverges to the south-west down Waste Lane to Grendon Wood, the largest block of … Anker, which river divides Grendon from Polesworth on the west. In the south-west the parish is crossed by the Coventry …