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A History of the County of Oxford
… the ground rises steadily to c. 110 m. at the parish church, reaching c. 150 m. at the western boundary. The … 19th coins, pottery, and a burial site were found near the church and on the site of the infant school. 13 The name … Middle Aston. The name 'Steeple', referring to the church tower, first occurs in 1220. 17 In 1086 Steeple Aston …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rayford, to join the road from Middle to Steeple Barton. Church Lane, a hollow way, called Woodstock Way in 1849, 16 runs south from the church along the west side of the Dorn valley. It ends … on the site of the modern bridge north-east of the church. The parish constable repaired footbridges at Middle …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… above sea-level. The site of the old Hall is close to the church; and the avenue, which gives its name to Avenue Farm, … Dennis together with Avenue Farm, lies eastward from the church. Adjoining a footpath leading northeast from the church is a timber-framed thatched cottage of mid …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… bridge may for long have been that immediately west of the church, called Maskell's from 1592 or earlier. 11 Further … possibly of the Iron Age, 24 and to the south-west Church End ring and Hanging Langford camp were late Iron-Age … in use in 1285, 34 is probably derived from a spire on the church. 35 Like others in the Wylye valley Steeple Langford …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… stood beside a street running north and south past the church. It was called Hay Street from the 13th century to the 19th, 24 when there were c. 30 houses north of the church, while others, almost 40 by the 1860s, were spreading … called by 1800 Cheyneys street, leading east from the church towards the rectory and Cheyneys manor house. At Brook …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Stellinges. The greatest part of it, in which the church stands, is in this hundred of Loning borough, and the … there is no other. A little beyond the minnis stands the church, on an hill, and a little further the court-lodge, at … demesne there is nothing, except one borderer. There is a church. Wood for the pannage of two bags. In the time of king …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of the parish, and is small and compact in appearance. The church, rebuilt in 1860 by the Duke of Bedford and the … commanding position in the centre of the village. The old church was described in 1849 in the Gentleman's Magazine as … above the neighbouring hayricks.' 2 Northeast of the church are the school buildings, built in the same style as …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Etchilhampton and south-westwards to Stert village and the church. The road to the church leads on as a narrow lane to the sites of the former … ridge where it narrows between the chalk and Gault. The church and Stert Farm stand close together towards the edge …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… seems to have grown from a cluster of houses around the church and the manor-house near the north-eastern road along … mid 17th century and 1807, having 5060 houses. 19 In 1770 Church Lane ran north of the church, between it and Stetchworth House; 20 by 1814 it had …
A History of the County of Hertford
… same point Julian's Road turns west to Fisher's Green. The church of the Holy Trinity is situated at the south end of … behind it in a northeasterly direction leads to the older church of St. Nicholas and passes on to Chesfield Park, a … east up Almond's Hill to the hamlet of Pin Green. From the church of St. Nicholas a road runs west into the Baldock …