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The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… PARISH OF WHITBURN. PARISH OF WHITBURN. The boundaries of the Parish … in Germany, 13 s. 10 d.; 1762, Nov. for the Colleges in America 1 l. 10 s.; 1764, Philippen Colony, in Turkish … windows, it must be allowed that Whitburn, in its present state, is the very exemplar nitidiss. of a neat comfortable …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Eddintone (xi cent.). Addington covers 1,303 acres, of which 147 acres are arable and 1,008 acres permanent grass. 1 The soil is mixed clay and gravel. Claydon Brook bounds the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Haddestok (xiii cent.). Adstock covers 1,166 acres, of which 138 are arable, 898 permanent grass, and 15 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay. The parish is watered by Padbury Brook, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Akeley-cum-Stockholt (xviii cent.). This parish, lying on the road from Towcester to Buckingham, covers 1,325 acres, most of which is laid down as permanent grass, only 195 acres being arable land. 1 Both soil and subsoil are clay. The ground rises slightly from about …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xiv cent.). This parish includes more than 2,127 acres, of which about one-eighth is arable, while the rest, except … 11 acres of woodland, 1 is pasture. 2 The soil is loam and clay on a subsoil of Kimmeridge Clay and Corallian. 3 The … Reg. 506; Cler. Guide, 181781. Clergy List. a Accts. and Papers, 1850, xlvii, no. 524. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xxi (2), …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Samford (xiii cent.). Aston Sandford contains an area of 678 acres, of which by far the greater part is pasture land. 1 It is watered by the … about 255 ft. above the ordnance datum. The soil is gault and sandstone, the subsoil clay and limestone. The chief …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Estwode (xiii, xiv cent.). This parish covers 1,281 acres, of which 615 are arable and 564 permanent grass. 1 There are 28 acres of woods, … Wood, Wallace Wood, Snakes Meadow and Jacobs Wood being the names of small woods in the parish. The soil is strong …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Little Barton (xvi cent.). This parish covers 891 acres, of which 165 are arable and 694 permanent grass. 1 The soil is clay. The south of the parish is watered by two …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bechehampton (xiii cent.). This parish covers 1,528 acres, of which 1,229 acres are permanent grass, 229 arable and 28 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay, the subsoil … house of stone with tiled roofs, and dates in its present state principally from the first quarter of the 17th century. …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xi cent.); Bethlesdene, Betlesden (xii cent.). The area of Biddlesden parish, which was formerly 1,630 acres, 1 increased to 2,052 acres between 1871 and 1881, 2 probably under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876 … must have incorporated at least part of the old abbey, state that it contained sixteen bays, a brew-house, stable, …