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A History of the County of Berkshire
… cent.); Austenthorold (xvi cent.). Aston Tirrold lies on the southern edge of the fertile valley which crosses the county nearly east and west from Wallingford to Ashbury. The parish contains …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xi cent.), Estewike (xii cent.), Asswyk (xiii cent). The parish of Astwick, covering 664 acres, lies midway between Biggleswade and Baldock. The ground slopes from the northwhere the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 5,607; 1921, 5,957; 1931, 6,245. The parish of Atherstone comprises the northern part of the old … Grammar School, a cinema, a number of modernized shops, and some new factory buildings have all contributed to change … population slowed down, and in the sixties, when a similar state of affairs existed, the population began to decrease. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Population: 1911, 83; 1921, 83; 1931, 75 Until 1931, when the county boundaries were readjusted by a Transfer Order, 1 … a narrow tongue (4 miles in length with an average width of mile) projecting westwards from Loxley into Gloucestershire. The country is open and gently undulating, rising from about 140 ft. on the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… from Polesworth station. It lies on new red sandstone; the soil is various, principally a rich loam, and much of the parish is under grass. The parish was inclosed in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Avebury AVEBURY The parish of Avebury, at the head of the river Kennet some 8 km. west of Marlborough, measures 1,898 ha. (4,690 a.) and has the shape of an elongated lozenge, indented at the … in 1962. 545 In 1859 the National school received a state grant and there were between 40 and 50 pupils. 546 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… Aveley AVELEY Aveley lies beside the Thames, 26 km. east of London and 6.5 km. north-west of Grays Thurrock. 1 The … (1751 1878); constables' accounts (1705), rate (1729), and papers (17181863); overseers' rates (16405, 17971827), … meetings of all paying scot and lot, to consider the state of the poor, with 1 s. fine for non-attendance. From …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xi cent.); Avintun, Yabyndon, Abingdon, (xiv cent.). The parish of Avington lies to the east of Winchester, the land rising … attains a height of some 600 ft. above the sea level, and tops the chalk downs stretching to the east from …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xi cent.); Avienton, Aventon, Avington (xiii cent.). The parish of Avington lies on the north side of the Kennet Valley, … from the River Kennet to the watershed between that river and the Lambourn. It contains 1,185 acres, of which the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… more than a mile from north to south, lies mostly to the east of the road from Banbury to Warwick. Where this road enters … road leads off from it north-eastwards to Fenny Compton, and this is met by another coming from Farnborough at the …