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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the Oxford and Kimeridge Clay region of north and mid-west Wiltshire. 1 Within the parish the ground is undulating … and for about a of a mile by the River Avon. Paxcroft Brook, a tributary of the Biss, flows through the parish just … off the main road and leading to Staverton. To the north-west of the parish is a now disused stone quarry which in …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… the road from Potton to St. Ives, about four miles south-west from the latter town. The church stands at the south end … The old vicarage, now three cottages, is at the south-west end of the green. Near by is the Manor Farm, an … pigeon house, square in plan and built of brick. North-west is Hilton House. There are many 17th-century cottages in …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… is at its greatest extent about 2 miles from east to west and covers 1,391 acres, of which 711 acres are arable … river are well wooded, Scriddles Wood lying to the south-west of the village, while further west is Hilton Wood with the Mill Farm. Here the river takes …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.). Himbleton parish is watered in the north by Dean Brook, a tributary of Bow Brook, which it joins in the hamlet … projecting considerably further northward than that on the west. The house is half-timbered and two stories high with … at the north end of the east wing. The ground floor of the west wing is divided into a larger and a smaller room by an …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… and he was newly bound to shipowners of Whitby. 23 South-west of Staithes is Seaton Hall, a farm-house, and a quarter … Easington Beck at Dalehouse, 32 a hamlet with a mill south-west of Staithes, on the road from Hinderwell to Boulby. Roxby, to which a lane leads south-west from Dalehouse, lies nearly 2 miles north-east of its …
A History of the County of Worcester
… is first mentioned in 1775. 62 Hindlip Church from the west In the saxon period OFFERTON (Alhfretune, Alcrinton, xi … modern singl-elight windows in the north and south walls. West of these are modern arcades, each of two bays, opening … two-light modern windows, two on the south and one at the west end, with an original 15th-century single light between …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Ampner contains 2,378 acres of land rising gradually from west to east to a height of more than 400 ft. above the sea … of Mr. Henry John Dutton, fills up the whole of the north-west of the parish; immediately east of the park is the … House, though the house itself, standing further south-west among the trees over the brow of the hill, is hidden …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… parish lies on the heavy clay of the Lower Lias. 3 The brook called the River Isbourne runs north through the centre … village of Hinton consisted mainly of modern houses to the west of the Isbourne, but earlier the village lay mainly east … brick and stone cottages in the village area to the west of the Isbourne; the Bevans, an 18th-century brick …
A History of the County of Somerset
… boundary of the hundred, follows the course of the Lopen brook and, like the limits of Dinnington and its neighbours, … 450 ft. in Paddocks plantation and to over 375 ft. to the west on the Dinnington boundary. Clay and limestone are … 14th century, almost certainly located in the open arable West field, later part of Hinton park. 4 Park quarry and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… is an Elizabethan building with later additions on the west, north and east. The south front was entirely modernized … filled in, but the rest is well preserved. To the south-west of the inclosed area is the mount of a mount and bailey … the history of which has been wholly lost. At the north-west angle the foundations of a large stone building have …