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A History of the County of Oxford
… more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, … to the river meadows, sometimes caused inconvenience as high as the village. When the Thames Navigation Commission … paper mill: the river level was kept permanently high, so that low-lying ground was almost always flooded and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… increased its dinner allowance from 20 s. to the unusually high figure of 30 s., and set an upper limit as high as £3 10 s. 25 In 1776 Yarnton spent £32 on poor relief, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The house was sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… forest; the chief are some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than … woodland and plantations, sixty undivided common, and 2522 hill pasture. The surface is generally elevated, rising … and comprises 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… not alter its main N.W.-S.E. alignment. It is up to 1 m. high and 5 m.-6 m. wide with side ditches 0.5 m. deep and 4 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… corner takes in the lower, western, slopes of Windmill Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land … and a signals school was built south-west of Windmill Hill and in Yatesbury parish. The station was closed in 1964, … Bourne field, c. 150 a., lay north of the village, and Hill field, c. 175 a., was a long and narrow field extending …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (11). Cottage, on the E. side of the road at Perrystone Hill, 1,000 yards S. of the church, has exposed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… fitting together, of effigy of priest in mass-vestments in high relief, middle part of figure remains, dark marble, late …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high moorland affording tolerable pasture; the surface is … has a well-built village, seated about a mile east of the high road from Ashbourn to Sudbury: Earl Ferrers is a … eight yards in breadth, built on the very edge of the hill, with an entrance on the south; within this is another …
A Dictionary of London
… and P.H. VIII. XIX. (t), p.86). On the east side of Peter Hill (S. 369). York House Wheatley says Baynard's Castle was …