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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Marsh, Hill field, and Windmill Hill field further north, Wilmoor and Stanley fields between Cleeve and Bollow, … driven by the Westbury brook stood in Westbury village north of the main road. In 1717, when it comprised two … tithe award. In one of the former open fields, Newlands north of Northwood, a line of merestones, bearing the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… although no part rises to more than c. 200 ft. Part of the north-east, however, is occupied by Walmore Common, a level … man-made channels and natural watercourses, those in the north mostly connecting with either the Westbury brook … Severn near Garden Cliff or the Ley brook which forms the north-eastern boundary to its confluence with the river. Much …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… mainly lying around the house called Old Ley Court in the north-east part of the parish. Henry sold the manor and c. … Burghill manor appears to have been at Court Farm at the north end of Westbury village: the house bears the initials … T-shaped end of the eastern canal. A brick wall along the north side of the garden contains two sets of rusticated …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the pastoral, dairy-farming region of the clay vale in the north-west. But less evidence has survived for the agrarian … was disparked, 42 and much of the cultivated land in the north-western part of the parish was already inclosed by the … the 20th century. In this century the dairy farming of the north-west pastoral region is the principal type of farming …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr, in a chapel on the north side of the church, by William of Westbury, … assigned lands and rent in Westbury and Honeybridge (North Bradley) worth £10 a year. 14 Neither the chantry … be buried in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist on the north side of the church and bequeathed £100 to found a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Iron Co. was formed to exploit the iron ore beds to the north of the town, discovered over ten years earlier when the … by open-cast methods, and furnaces were built to the north of the railway line. At first the enterprise … ceased. The first bank opened in Westbury was that of the North Wilts. Banking Co., in 1858. The Wilts. & Dorset …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… miles from east to west, and approximately four miles from north to south, and included within its bounds were the later … and Stoke in the east, Hawkeridge and Heywood in the north, Brook, Penleigh, Bremeridge, Dilton Marsh, and … on the strip of upper greensand, which runs beneath the north-western escarpment of Salisbury Plain, and divides the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Farm, which probably represents this estate, lies in the north of the parish of Bratton. 49 An estate, lying partly in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… least 3 rooms, each of which had an external door in the north wall. The central room has a blocked stone fireplace. … ancient parish. 43 In 1840 the demesne lands, which lay north of Leigh Road near its junction with Warminster Road, … besides Leigh House, another house in Leighton Park to the north of the road which cut the park in two and apparently …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and elsewhere. An 8-bay range at right angles to the north end of the above building has similar windows but … have been the corn mill on the Bitham Brook, about ½ mile north from Bitham Mill, marked on a map of 1890 87 and … of the buildings erected c. 1800 (see above). 30 Further north the former manager's house, used in 1960 as …