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A History of the County of Hampshire
… cent.); Burstlesden (xiv cent.); Bristelden (xvi cent.). The parish of Bursledon is a beautiful little tract of country, 1,100 … of Netley Hill is a tract of moorland covered with bracken and heather; thence the country slopes rapidly down to the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Burstow BURSTOW Burstowe and Burghstowe (xiv cent.); Byrstowe (xv cent.); Bristowe (xvii cent.). Burstow is a country parish on the Sussex border. The church is 7 miles south-east of Reigate, and about 2 miles south-south-east of Horley …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 4,975. Population: 1911, 475; 1921, 486; 1931, 445. The eastern boundary of the parish is formed by a stream as far north as Ham … northern boundary runs along a road due west for 1 miles and then follows hedgerows southwards to meet the stream …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 169; 1921, 197; 1931, 227. Burton Hastings is a parish in the north-east of Knightlow hundred, 3 miles south of Hinckley in … Brook divides it on the north from Stretton Baskerville, and the River Anker on the west and south from Nuneaton, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xv cent.); Burton Lattimer (xvii cent.). The parish of Burton Latimer, which was constituted an urban district in 1923, comprises 2,756 acres. 1 The soil is clay and limestone lying on Upper Lias, Great Oolite and Cornbrash … occupy the spandrels of the nave arcades and are in a fair state of preservation, though two have perished. 114 There is …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Heitmundgrave, Hetumgrove, Heytmongrave (xiv cent.). The parish of Bury cum Hepmangrove lies to the south of Ramsey. It is of … From east to west at its widest part, it is about 2 miles and from north to south about 1 miles. It consists of 1446 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Burewardsci (xii cent.); Burghwardescote (xiiixv cent.). The parish of Buscot has an area of 2,887 acres, of which more than half is grass land and only 866 acres are arable, while woods and plantations …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Bushey BUSHEY Bisseia, viii cent.; Bissheye, xiv. cent. The parish of Bushey, formerly called also Hartshead (Hertesheved, … a part, about 1166. 1 It lies to the south of the county, and is bounded by the River Colne on the north, and the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Bussheley (xv cent.). Bushley is an agricultural parish on the right bank of the Severn, opposite Tewkesbury. It has an area of 1,834 … land. 1 The soil is clay, with a subsoil of Keuper Marls, and Alluvium near the river. The Severn forms the eastern …
A History of the County of Somerset
… parish lies largely on the gently sloping east side of a ridge which runs south-east from Street and extends north and north-east into the broad valley of the … 1467, 1476, 1479; box 15, surveys 1616, 1664; box 16A, ct. papers. Ibid. box 15, rental 178390; box 286, rental 183659; …