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A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xi cent.); Dumare (xiii cent.); Dommere (xiv cent.). The parish of Dummer, with Kempshot added in 1876 for civil purposes, … acres of hilly country generally rising from west to east, and reaching a height of over 660 ft. above the ordnance …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Parishes Dunchurch and Thurlaston DUNCHURCH AND THURLASTON Acreage: Dunchurch, … 1,500 (1,600 on present area). Dunchurch, with its hamlets of Thurlaston (a separate civil parish), Cawston, and Toft, … Dunchurch to Northampton was noted as being in a very bad state in 1754. 7 Thurlaston hamlet is on a by-road a little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Duns Tew DUNS TEW Duns Tew parish lies just south of Deddington and 16 miles (26 km.) north of Oxford. The parish is almost square, and comprises c. 1,750 a. (708 …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Dunsfold DUNSFOLD Duntesfaud and Dunterfeld (xiii cent.); Dunttesfold (xiv cent.). … east by Hascombe and Alfold, on the south by the county of Sussex. It contains 4,028 acres of land and 11 of water. … (who died in 1767), 26 and Manning and Bray incorrectly state that his son Anthony Joseph sold it by auction to …
A History of the County of Bedford
… a municipal borough on the old road from London to Chester and Holyhead, from the former of which it is distant 32 miles. The town stands about 480 … of Crown Lands 178792; Lysons, Mag. Brit. i (1), 76. Parl. Papers (1845), xlv, 3. Pat. 28 Vict. pt. ii, no. 9. Standard, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xvi cent.). Dunton is a parish containing 1,196 acres, of which 79 acres are arable, 1,074 acres are permanent grass, and 15 acres consist of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is rich loam with a subsoil of clay, and the chief …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Donton (xv cent.); Melnho, Milneho (xixviii cent.). The parish of Dunton covers 2,649 acres, and is bounded on the south-east by Cambridgeshire and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Durle (xiv cent.); Dyrle (xvi cent.). Durley is a parish of 2,497 acres, lying between the upper waters of the Hamble River and its tributary Ford Lake, the latter forming its western …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Durnford DURNFORD Durnford in the earlier 19th century Durnford parish 1 lies between Salisbury and Amesbury. 2 Its main part, on the east bank of the Christchurch Avon, contains the villages or hamlets of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Durrington DURRINGTON Durrington 1 is a long and narrow parish adjoining Amesbury to the south and stretching westwards from the Christchurch Avon to the watershed of the Avon and the Till. 2 Beside the Avon to the north a …