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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wiltshire, on the E. by Hampshire and on the S. by the R. Stour and the expanding city of Bournemouth. The underlying … are tributaries of the Allen, which flows S. to meet the Stour at Wimborne Minster. Numerous dry re-entrant valleys … [62]. It occupies a prominent Chalk knoll overlooking the Stour valley, on the S. edge of Cranborne Chase. Further E., …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… western area is drained by the south-westward flowing R. Stour, and its tributaries, the R. Lodden and the Filley, … hamlets. The major villages of Gillingham and Milton-on-Stour owe their existence to river terraces. The Corallian … a cross-shaft of about the same period, formerly at East Stour, has recently been taken to the British Museum. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N. from the foot of the Chalk escarpment to the River Stour; the latter flows generally south-eastwards, close to … to the churches of the Winterborne valley and of the Stour valley S.E. of the escarpment. Ham Hill stone from … N.W. is devoid of major settlements, except where the R. Stour crosses the outcrop; here on the river terraces are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Blandford-Forum; containing 437 inhabitants. The river Stour bounds the parish on the south. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yell, Fetlar, Bressay, Scalloway, Northmavine, Papa-Stour, and other places. Among the fish taken are, tusk, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… roughly square in outline, lies on the N.E. bank of the R. Stour; the land, entirely Chalk, rises from 80 ft. above O.D. … ditches on the undulating land which slopes down to the R. Stour, S. and S.W. of (34). They appear as crop-marks and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 512 inhabitants. It is bounded on the north by the river Stour; and comprises 2223 acres, of which 745 are common or …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 80 NW) The parish covers 2,272 acres of land beside the R. Stour, which forms the N.E. boundary. In the S. of the parish … near the N. end of the village on a hill overlooking the Stour valley. The walls are of flint, rubble, banded flint … (821122) lies on a river terrace on the W. side of the R. Stour, immediately W. of Bere Marsh Farm. The history of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and comprising 370 a. 3 r. 17 p. Shipston-upon-Stour (St. Edmund) SHIPSTON-upon-Stour ( St. Edmund), a markettown and parish, and the head of … sheep in the kingdom. The town is situated on the river Stour, in a fertile and rather hilly country, about two miles …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at the confluence of the navigable rivers Orwell and Stour, opposite to the town of Harwich, and comprises 2051 a. …