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Magna Britannia
… which is the post-office town, and about fourteen west-north-west from Launceston. The principal village in this parish, … in the parish of Lanlivery, on the opposite side of the brook. For some time after the Conquest, we do not find it …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Lea from Leigh Delamere in the same deanery. To the south-west the parish embraced an island of Little Somerford … of the northern and eastern by its tributary Woodbridge brook which was a boundary c. 1100, and the southern ran near … the SwindonMalmesbury road. The inclusion of c. 70 a. west of the Avon within the boundaries in 1840 was apparently …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and about a mile wide, lying for the most part to the west and north of the River Tame. The village of Lea lies in … the former Hams Hall. A farm-house, now tenements, on the west side of the green is of square framing with later brick … brick farm-house. Blackgreaves Farm, mile north-west of Lea, is of 18th-century red brick except for a …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… It lies for the most part between the Cod Beck on the west and the Hambleton Hills on the east, and has a clay soil … Two old chimneys project from the east front. On the west side is a doorway of two hollow-chamfered orders with a … inclosing the date and initials [M W A] 1679. Further west is the east jamb and pilaster of a similar doorway, but …
A History of the County of Warwick
… boundary and receives two tributaries; one flows north-west from Grandborough and, with several branches, one rising … baron of the Exchequer and lord of the manor. Towards the west there is a further inscription in a carved frame on a … that two in the same style were built on to the west in 1696, and later another was added, also at the west …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Letherhead is a small town or large village 4 miles south-west of Epsom and 5 miles north of Dorking. The parish measures 4 miles from north-west to south-east, from 2 to 1 miles across, and contains … map records that Roman coins were found in the field south-west of it in 1859. Fragments of Roman tile are not at all …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and South Western Railway, which passes the village on the west. From here the ground slopes upwards to the south-east, … angle of the nave is not in line with but to the west of the chancel arch, and a length of wall forming the … absence of any window in its north wall, except one at the west, and the face of modern plaster with which the wall is …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… On the north side is the antient seat of Lee-place; at the west end a house, which has been many years the residence of … length at each end of it, at the public expence. This brook, running from hence, passes along by the foot of the … resides in it. About a quarter of a mile towards the north-west, from the village of Lee, on the ascent of the hill, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… known as Grim's Dike, also bounds the parish on the west and south. The village of Lee lies on another by-road, … is one bell in a small stone bell-cot or gable, at the west end of the church. This bell was removed from the old … is of early 19th-century construction. There is also a west door, a late insertion with a round head, and traces of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the ground rises, at about three quarters of a mile south-west from it is Leeds abbey, the front of which is a handsome … in antient writings by the name of Le Mote. In the north-west part of it he built a chapel, in which he placed three … of king Henry III. purchased the manor of Walton, in the West Riding, where he and his successors resided for many …