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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of … Winterborne Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each … parish which included the modern parish of Herringston and from the 17th century until the 19th century both were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… across the Winterborne valley at altitudes between 250 ft. and 600 ft. above sea-level; it formerly included some 60 … the river appear to represent three separate villages and manors. Philipston, in the N., lay around the present … by the present Manor House; Nicholson was sited near and to the S. of St. Nicholas's Church. In 1340 Nicholson and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 70 SE, ST 80 NW, ST 80 SW) The parish covers 1,974 acres and lies entirely upon Chalk between 350 ft. and 870 ft. above sea-level. The village stands at the head of the Winterborne stream and dry tributary valleys extend from it to W. and N.W. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Chalk, which is overlaid by extensive areas of gravels and sands in its higher parts, especially in the S. on … in the parish, Martinstown in the centre, Ashton in the E. and Rew (not recorded as such until 1283, but probably much … prehistoric earthwork in Britain. The complex structure and history of the monument, from the Neolithic to the Late …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The parish, of over 2,100 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land … Winterborne brook, which flows into the parish from the W. and turns S. at the village. The area was formerly divided into two settlements and manors, Stickland and Quarleston, 1 each with its own …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 … Abbas parish included the W. part of Whitechurch village, and the parish church thus stood outside its own parish. … in the W. part of the village. The walls are of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings, and of banded flint and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The parish has 49 round barrows and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … now no longer held. The parish is tolerably extensive, and the village, which is long and straggling, occupies a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … Rectory Act (1870). It had long maintained its own poor, 1 and its separate existence for civil purposes was virtually … end of Leverington; it has no separate manorial history, and may be compared in status with Gedney Hill over the …