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A History of the County of Worcester
… Parishes Broughton Hackett BROUGHTON HACKETT Broctune (x and xi cent.); Broctone Inardi, Brocheton (xii cent.); … This small parish, not 3 miles in circumference, lies on the road from Worcester to Alcester. The village includes … to Manor House Farm is a square timber-framed pigeonhouse of the 17th century. The houses are scattered along …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Berghton, Bereuton (xiii cent.); Burghton (xv cent.). The parish of Broughton contains 3,458 acres of land, of which about 6 … 2,370 acres arable land, 1,050 acres permanent grass and 16 acres woodland. 1 The village is in the south of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Brown Candover parish lies 5 miles north from Alresford and contains 2,810 acres. The village lies along the main road from Winchester to Basingstoke in the valley of the Itchen, which intersects the parish from east to west. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… WITH HODDESDON Brochesborne (xi cent.); Brokesburn. The civil parish of Broxbourne, 1 which has an area of 1,932 acres, contains … 509 acres of arable land, 658 acres of permanent grass and 686 acres of wood. 2 The ground slopes downward from the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 225; 1921, 241; 1931, 291. This small parish lies to the south and east of the River Avon, close to which on a slight rise stands the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Road, which for some distance forms its northern boundary, and from which a road branches here to Peterborough. It is … North Eastern Railway. The Kettering to Cambridge branch of the London Midland and Scottish Railway cuts through the … though externally much altered, retains in its original state a 15th- or 16th-century hall, long used as a kitchen …
A History of the County of Surrey
… cent.); Bokelond (xiv cent.). Buckland is a small parish and village 2 miles west of Reigate. It is bounded on the north by Waltonon-the-Hill, on the east and south-east by …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xiii cent.). Buckland parish contains 4,505 acres, of which 1,762 acres are arable land, 1,884 acres permanent grass and 268 acres woods and plantations. 1 The village is … the vicarage being reduced by the bishop to its former state. 148 The tithes of Carswell were granted to Wallingford …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Buckland BUCKLAND Buckland is a small parish lying on the Hertfordshire border. It is remarkably long and narrow in shape, and rises towards the south to the Childern Hills. There are 534 acres of arable land and 380 acres laid down in permanent grass. 1 …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which name it took from the Saxon words, boc, or book, and land; meaning, that it was land held by charter or … A borsholder for this parish is chosen at the court leet of the manor of Dover priory. BUCKLAND is situated in the … churches came into the hands of the crown, in the like state as the religious held them, and were again granted in …