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A History of the County of Warwick
… its northern neighbour Pillerton Hersey, is attached to the latter for ecclesiastical purposes. In the village the site of the ancient church, or chapel, is now marked only by its … chimney-stack contains a Tudor fire-place in an upper room and has a rectangular shaft of thin bricks, with square …
A History of the County of Rutland
… (xv cent.). Pilton is a small parish containing 347 acres of rather more pasture than arable land. The soil is clay and sand and contains a good deal of ironstone. The northern … and the pulpit was 'wretched looking' and in a 'tottering state' ( Stamford Mercury, 29 May 1863). North, Ch. Bells of …
A History of the County of Northampton
… cent.), Pilkethon, Pilkintona, Pilketun (xiii century). The parish of Pilton contains 1,406 acres of land. 1 The subsoil is mainly Oxford clay, with some great oolite and cornbrash. 2 The greater part of the land is laid down in …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Pirbright PIRBRIGHT Pirifrith and Pirifright (xiii cent.); Purifright (xiv cent.). Pirbright is a parish, formerly a chapelry of Woking, 5 miles north-west of Guildford. It contains 4,674 … and measures about 3 miles each way. It is bounded on the north by Chobham and Bisley, on the east by Woking, on …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Parishes Pirton PIRTON The parish of Pirton lies on low ground in the north-west of … the ordnance datum, but the ground rises considerably, and in the north-west, where it meets the Chilterns, it has a …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Pyrton, Pyerton (xvii cent.). This parish lies between the roads from Tewkesbury and Pershore to Worcester. Branch roads connecting these two … on the southern boundary. The village is a mile south-west of Wadborough station on the Bristol and Birmingham branch of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Pishill PISHILL The modern parish of Pishill with Stonor was first formed in 1922 and was … for about 200 years, but a thorough search of the family papers and the public records failed to reveal how or from … was said to spend many of his Sundays in London, and the state of the parish can hardly have been good earlier in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Pitney PITNEY The ancient parish of Pitney in 1876 was said to be just over … Pitney moor, is over three miles from north to south, and about a mile from east to west at its widest point. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Pidesford (xi-xii cents.); Pisseford (xiiixiv cents.). The parish of Pitsford has an area of 1,413 acres. The soil is marl and clay with a subsoil of stone, producing crops of wheat …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Pittleston, Pitchthorn, Pitstone (xvii xviii cent.). The parish of Pitstone consists of 1,644 acres, of which 949 acres are arable land, 229 acres permanent grass, and 218 acres woods and plantations. 1 The soil is variable, …