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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Houghton HOUGHTON The parish of Houghton, lying south-west of Stock-bridge and north-west of King's Somborne, is detached from the other parishes … of land, which rises generally from south-east to north-west from the low-lying country near the River Test, which …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of a moat are still to be seen. On a hill to the north-west is a windmill which is still worked. To the south-west of Houghton Conquest is the hamlet of Haw End, which … while a division wall runs across the house east and west parallel with the front wall. In the centre of the south …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Baptist, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. At the west end of the straight village street a path leads across a … is a small Wesleyan chapel. From here a road leads south-west to Sewell, another hamlet, which is the subject of a … Bidwell is a picturesque hamlet lying to the north-west of Houghton village and separated from it by a hill. It …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… no natural waterways of any size in the parish, but in the west are two sheets of water, used in earlier times by the … Western Railway passes through the parish from east to west, and has a station at Netley midway between the villages … ground on the north and east, and open only towards the west and south-west. Netley Castle, standing between the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… obtained. A prehistoric track traverses the uplands to the west of New Malton towards Easthorpe and Hovingham, and is … a pleasing example of the period, the ground stage of the west front of the principal block being occupied by a … of four bays, north and south aisles, a south porch and west tower. The oldest part of the church is the tower, which …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the wide hedge-rows round the fields, and on the north-west side the parish joins to a large tract of woodland, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 166 are arable, 637 permanent grass and 111 woods. 2 Bow Brook and Little Brook, 3 one of its tributaries, form the … is Trench Lane, which runs from Huddington village north-west to Droitwich, being intersected at Shaftland Cross, to the north-west of the village, by a road running south-west to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… portion of Stoke Mandeville. Naphill hamlet is in the west of the parish, and Widmer End in the east is now … in the southern part of the parish, and to the south-west of it there is a range of early 17th-century almshouses … Prestwood. 7 The hamlet of Naphill, 2 miles to the north-west of Hughenden Church, has a mission hall and school and a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the downs. 1 The roughly square parish is crossed east-west by the scarp. Its land rises above 850 ft. on Huish … to the lord. It was arranged in four bands running east-west across the parish. There were 27 a. of several meadow … Oare to Draycot. North of that lane lay two open fields, West field, 127 a., and East field, 120 a. They were divided …
A History of the County of Somerset
… village of Huish, occupies an irregular area rising to the west of the river Tone, including the valleys of two parallel … It is irregular in shape, its north-east and south-west boundaries marked by streams now running into Clatworthy … of the river Tone, 5 was disputed in 1231. 6 To the north-west the parish reaches the plateau of Brendon Hill (375 m.) …