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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and two chancels, having a low pointed steeple at the west end, in which hangs only one bell. There are no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ancient market-town of Deddington. It is bounded on the west by the Cherwell 2 and on the east by the Romano-British … Coopers Spinney is the main survivor of woods in the south-west of the parish which were cut down in the mid-19th … Heyford. The village lies above the river in the north-west of the parish, and just off the main Bicester-Enstone …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… boundaries of the ancient parish were the Foss Way on the west, the Knee brook on the north, a stream (possibly called the Leam, from … 300 ft. and 400 ft., rising to 450 ft. in the south-west corner. The village is built on glacial gravel at 400 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… and is bounded on the east for some distance by Sapey Brook. The high road from Stourport to Bromyard follows its … Brook is about 400 ft. above the ordnance datum; in the west it rises to a height of over 600 ft. The area of the … a mile south-east of the village, and near it on the north-west is the Church House Farm, a picturesque half-timber …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… is a small rural parish two and a half miles south-west of Stow-on-the-Wold and immediately north of … the whole area of the ancient parish. The Slaughter or Ey brook runs across the middle of the parish, and between it … survived in 1540 20 and gave a name to Gallows piece south-west of the village. 21 The prison in Lower Slaughter for the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Swell LOWER SWELL The parish of Lower Swell stretched west from Stowon-the-Wold, covering 2,347 a., and measuring four miles from east to west and about a mile from north to south. The Foss Way … ft. before dropping down to cross the upper end of the Ey brook which drains the western half of the parish. 4 The …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and produces wheat, barley and turnips. Harper's Brook flows in a southeasterly direction through the village … on the east side and one in the south gable; two in the west wall are blocked. There is a wide modern opening on the west side. Near the corner of the road to Aldwinkle is a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the War Memorial. Loxley Hall stands close to the church, west of the green, on the road to Wellesbourne. It is largely … road. It is a T-shaped house with the main block facing west and built of lower lias stone, considerably repaired at … alongside the grounds of Loxley Hall down to a small brook and is said to have once continued across the fields to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the Church Farm. A very winding stream called Alconbury Brook rises in the Great Hall Spinney north of the church and … by 15 ft.; south aisle, 9 ft. 6 in. wide; south porch and west tower, 6 ft. 2 in. by 6 ft. 8 in., all these … modern form. The buttresses and part of the walling at the west end of the nave may belong to the 13th-century church, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… east and was transferred to the parish in 1992. 4 In the west the parish boundary is marked by a prehistoric ditch along a ridge, and the west half of the northern boundary is marked by the bank and … part of the boundary with Hampshire follows a dry valley, west of which the boundary with North Tidworth was on its …