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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… CHOLDERTON Cholderton, 1 686 ha. (1,695 a.), is in the upper Bourne valley 15 km. north-east of Salisbury. 2 In 1086 there were eight estates called Cholderton, four in Wiltshire and four in Hampshire: 3 the Wiltshire four constitute …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.). Cholesbury is a small parish, covering an area of 178 acres, of which about 75 acres are arable land, 85 permanent grass, and 16 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay, with a subsoil of chalk, which has been …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xv cent.); Choulcey (xvii cent.). Cholsey lies low, most of it being about 200 ft. above the ordnance datum. The level in the east by the Thames is still lower. The highest ground is on Cholsey Hill and Lollingdon Hill (314 ft.) and on Cholsey Downs in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1,767. Population: 1911, 232; 1921, 271; 1931, 280. The River Avon forms the northern boundary of the parish, and on it, no doubt, was the mill worth 10 s. 6 d. which was …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Ciricleinc, Lench Roculf (xiii cent.). The parish of Church Lench lies on the eastern border of the county. The … the hamlets of Ab Lench or Hob Lench, 1 Atch Lench and Sheriff's Lench, the first being a chapelry of Fladbury … by the official trustees. Now known as Abbots Lench. Parl. Papers (1872), xlvi, 27. Statistics from Bd. of Agric. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiii cent.); Churcheokle, Chyrchocle (xiv cent.). The parish of Church Oakley covers an area of 1,630 acres: it lies between the parishes of Wootton St. Lawrence and Deane. The village stands so close to the eastern border …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (xiii cent.). Churchill, usually spoken of as Churchill in Oswaldslow to distinguish it from Churchill in Halfshire, is a small parish 5 miles to the east of Worcester. Bow Brook runs south along the eastern side and the Evesham and Worcester road forms the boundary on the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… CHURCHILL Cercehalle (xi cent.); Chirhulle (xii cent.). The parish of Churchill, containing 954 acres, of which 721 acres are arable land, 160 permanent grass, and 8 acres woodland, 1 is on the Staffordshire border, about …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1,641. 1 Population: 1911, 323; 1921, 274; 1931, 324. The parish is bounded on the east by the straight line of the Roman Watling Street, which here forms the county … where Watling Street crosses a small stream at Holywell and Caves Inn Farm, are traces of earthworks, possibly …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Cleines, Cleynes, Claynes (xiii cent.). The parish of Claines, on the left bank of the Severn and to the north of Worcester, has been considerably reduced … There were many complaints in the 17th century of the bad state of the roads in Claines. 5 Prattinton mentions an …