Search
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Letcombe Regis LETCOMBE REGIS with EAST CHALLOW and WEST CHALLOW Ledencumbe (xi cent.); Leddecumbe, Ledecumba … principal crops are wheat, barley and oats. The Letcombe Brook, which rises in the adjoining parish of Letcombe … south of the camp, and the Icknield Way crosses East and West Challow on its way to Wantage. The township of Challow …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… excepting two, are, though within the bounds of it, on the west side of Badlesmere lees, over which, as well as along … of Thomas Easden south, and the lands of William Norton west and north, which land of old time belonged to the church …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… bailiwick. 4 There are now disused ironworks in the north-west of the parish, and limestone and freestone quarries are … Lockton; at the north end is a duck-pond. The hall on the west side is a small 18th-century building and none of the … by a ford over Levisham Beck, nearly half a mile south-west of the village and almost 300 ft. below its level. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… more considerable one of Sydenham is situated at the south-west corner of it, adjoining to Surry. It was formerly … son, was a commander in the royal navy, and died in the West-Indies in 1747. The earl died at his house at Blackheath … Cistercian monastery of Stratford Langthorne, founded at West Ham, in Essex, by William de Montsitchet, about the year …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Lewknor LEWKNOR The parish lies in the south-west of the hundred which bears its name. Like other parishes … miles broad at its widest and 5 miles in length from north-west to south-east. In 1959 it contained two divisions or … pre-Roman roads cross the parish from north-east to south-west. The Chiltern ridgeway keeps to the top of the ridge and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 1 and seems to have taken its name from the little brook or bourne which runs through this parish; lytlan … it lies low, the soil mostly fertile land. The Addington brook runs along the south and east sides of it, and near the … Leyborne and Ryarsh, and five from each of the parishes of West and East Malling, to be recommended by the churchwardens …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… neat building, of one isle, with a wooden turret at the west end, in which there is one bell. It seems not to extend … for there is the space of two or three yards between the west end of it and the remaining part of the old tower, which …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… boundary is formed by a stream anciently called the 'Liden Brook', whence the parish derives its name. The eastern … lies immediately south-east of Swindon and c. mile west of the northern part of Liddington, and is made up of … two outlying hamlets: Liddington Wick c. 1 mile north-west of the main village and Medbourne c. mile to the …
A History of the County of Rutland
… good loam and clay land mostly under grass. From the north-west part of the parish, where the land is over 500 ft. above … dressings, having its main axis from north-east to south-west, 3 and consists of three separately roofed blocks, that … four small two-light square-headed windows. Except in the west block and in the bay window there are no stringcourses, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… near the church. It belonged formerly to the abbey of West Langdon, and on the dissolution of it came to the crown, … is held for this manor. SWANTON is a manor in the south-west part of this parish, within the hundred of Folkestone, … one isle and one chancel, having a square tower at the west end, in which is one bell. The church is unceiled, …