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A History of the County of Buckingham
… Chechele (xiv cent.). This parish covers 2,070 acres, of which about 70 acres are woodland and the remainder is nearly equally divided between arable … are found later in this parish, but it is impossible to state with certainty the exact origin of each. Two of them …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xiii cent.). This parish, which lies 3 miles south-east of Brill, contains 2,067 acres. About 404 of these are arable, 19 woodland and the rest laid down in permanent grass, 1 the soil being loam …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… next Olneye 1 (xiv cent.). Clifton Reynes is bounded on the north and northwest by the Ouse, where the land is liable to … above ordnance datum. The Bedford and Northampton branch of the Midland railway crosses the north of the parish. The …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… small parish, first mentioned as 'Cold' Brayfield towards the end of the 16th century, 1 was formerly included in Lavendon. The River Ouse is on two sides the parish boundary, and the road from Olney to Bedford, after passing through the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Durton (xiii cent.). This parish contains 1,477 acres, of which 122 are arable land and 1,108 permanent grass. 1 The land, of which the surface is clay on a subsoil of …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… This parish contains 2,395 acres, including 1,936 acres of permanent grass and 181 acres of arable land. 1 The slope of the land above the ordnance datum varies from …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Achecot (xiii cent.); Eggecote, Attchecott (xvi cent.). The parish of Edgcott contains 1,140 acres, of which only 82 are arable … with a subsoil of clay. The parish is bordered on the west and southeast by branches of the River Ray. The land here and …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Ambretone (xi cent.); Embirtone (xiv cent.). The parish of Emberton is well watered by the Ouse and its tributaries. The river divides it from Olney, but … to the north of which is the rectory, in its present state mainly of the 18th century, and the school. Along the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xiii cent.). Fleet Marston is a small parish of three farms and several cottages with an area of 934 acres, 1 which, with … Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 257 b, 261 b. Bruce, Verney Papers (Camden Soc.), 5, quoting here and elsewhere Fleet …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.); Foscote (xv cent.); Foxcott, Foscott (xvi cent.). The parish of Foscott or Foxcott covers 718 acres, of which 501 are permanent grass, 157 arable and 47 woods or plantations. 1 The land falls from over 400 …