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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a forest-pasture region. The Chalk Country of south Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… all inclosures in Wiltshire after 1700. The fact that the south was too far from towns to provide a market for a … were few, 15 although rents rose more rapidly than in the south. 16 Much unsuitable land which had been used for arable … the large farmer more than the small, especially in the south. 28 The man with 20 worth of downland found that his …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the lowest cost as the new price levels demanded. In the south, at any rate, even the technically efficient farmers of … per cent. of the area of Wiltshire. If it is assumed that south, or Chalk, Wiltshire covered two-thirds of the county, … defined lay within it, then they covered 34 per cent. of south Wiltshire. The three largest estates which have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Aighton, Bailey, and Chaigley, meet on the north and south summit of the eastern side of the crescent of Longridge Fell. Aighton occupies the east-south-east brow, whence it gradually recedes by a gentle … object to the whole of the surrounding country. On the south angle of the front of the college, is a handsome chapel …
A History of the County of Somerset
… village on the eastern side of the Quantock ridge 4 km. south of Nether Stowey; the smaller was 4.5 km. north-east of … 3.5 km. from east to west and 1 km. from nsorth to south, the smaller was roughly oval, 1.7 km. east to west. 1 … is on Hangman grits. 5 The parish boundary on the east and south followed a footpath, lanes, and a stream, on the west …
A History of the County of Somerset
… House, it dates from the 18th century and has a main south front of three bays and three storeys. Its recessed end … and consists of a chancel, a nave with north vestry, south aisle, and south porch, and a west tower. With the possible exception of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 96 A tanyard established at Postridge by 1832 belonged to South Holmes farm in Spaxton. 97 The name Rack close recorded …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 62 Postridge Farm has a double-pile plan incorporating a south range of late 16th or 17th-century origin, remodelled …
A Dictionary of London
… Court West out of Wood Street at No.91 with a passage south to Oat Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward … name: "Fryingpan Alley" (q.v.). Albert Buildings On the south side of Queen Victoria Street at No.37, at the corner … Albion Chapel, Moorfields A Presbyterian chapel at the south-east corner of Finsbury Pavement, on the north side of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the main road, about three hundred yards to the south, the former circuitous and dangerous route through the … is a public clock. At the distance of half a mile to the south-east, are some fine remains of the nunnery of Sopwell, … Ethelbert), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N. by E.) …