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A History of the County of Buckingham
… Horowode (xiv cent.). Great Horwood covers 3, 270 acres. The parish has 139 acres of woods and plantations. Roddimore Covert is in the south and College …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… accounted but as a borough to the adjoining parish of Reculver, to which, as to its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, … in a lonely unfrequented country, both unwholesome and unpleasant, the soil being for the most part a deep stiff … said to have hunted in the park of Ford. Nearly in which state this palace continued till the civil wars, when the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Hothfield HOTHFIELD IS the next parish northward from Great Chart, and is so called from the bothe, or heath within it. The greatest part of this parish lies within the hundred of Chart and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Hougham HOUGHAM, OR Huffam, as it is called, and frequently written in Domesday, Hicham, being so … situation, lies the next parish eastward from Polton. Part of it only is within this hundred of Bewsborough; another … as has been already frequently mentioned before, in which state it has continued ever since, his grace the archbishop …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Houghton (xiv cent.); frequently Houghton with Wyton. The parish of Houghton lies immediately west of St. Ives and has its southern base upon the River Ouse and its …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Parishes Houghton HOUGHTON The parish of Houghton, lying south-west of Stock-bridge and north-west of King's Somborne, is detached from the other …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xii cent.); Octona, Hocton (xiii cent.). The parish of Houghton Conquest lies some 6 miles south of Bedford. It … were amalgamated, a most extraordinary and inconvenient state of affairs existed in Houghton Conquest, there being … xxxiv. Lysons, Mag. Brit. i (1), 96 (giving as reference papers in the possession of the Duke of Bedford). Cal. S. P. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Houghton Regis HOUGHTON REGIS Houstone, Houton. The parish of Houghton Regis, to the north of Dunstable, contains about 4,390 acres, of which some 3,162 are arable land and 843 permanent grass. 1 The soil is loam and chalk, and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… cent.); Howne (xiv cent.); Letelie (xi cent.). The parish of Hound, covering an area of 4,271 acres, of which 301 are foreshore and 458 tidal water, with a population of 4,548 inhabitants, … offices, keeping the east end of it for a chapel, in which state it continued till about fifteen years ago, when Sir B L …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Parishes Hovingham HOVINGHAM The parish is composed of the townships of Hovingham, Airyholme with Howthorpe and Baxtonhowe (Backstone Howe, 1749), Coulton, Fryton, Ness, …