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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a near-by estate as an outlying tun inhabited by the lord's ceorls. 4 If so, it would seem likely that until that date … date, crosses the southern tip of the parish. 10 Charlton's contribution of 36 s. to the fifteenth of 1334 is one of … was no meeting-house in the parish. 179 An iron mission hall for Wesleyan Methodists was built in 1893 on the north …
A History of the County of Somerset
… coins, slab graves, and traces of building found in Perrin's Quarry at Bulland in the north-west of the parish, which … Broad Street. Just south of the school lies the Temperance Hall, first mentioned in 1902 33 and used in 1970 as a youth … themselves by 1861, including a draper and grocer, a butcher, and a basketmaker. 278 By 1866 a baker, tailor, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Dodoens' Cruydeboeck or Herbal, known subsequently as Lyte's Herbal, which he first published in 1578. 50 The work … Somerton Pear, an excellent pear, ripe before Kingsdon's feast'. 51 His son Thomas (III) Lyte ( c. 15681638) … part is the north-east range which contains a 15th-century hall with a screens-passage across its north-west end. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Buckinghamshire. In the 18th century the parish's circumference was said to be six miles. 4 The major part of … dug in 1815 to drain Otmoor, runs parallel with the parish's southern boundary. The Islip-Merton road crosses the … of Beckley. The money had not been repaid, but Francis Hall of Noke claimed an earlier title to the manor. John …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in this county, one at Tunbridgecastle, and the other at Hall-place, in Barming, near Maidstone, from which quantities … issue, and also two daughters, who became their brother's heirs, and on the partition of their inheritance in 1752, … essigies of Stephen Norton, who lived in king Richard II.'s reign, with his arms, Argent, a chevron between three …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… parish through the hamlets of Greenstreet-green and Spratt's bottom, southward. The soil is in general very poor and … book of Domesday, under the general title of that prelate's lands, as follows: Ernuf. de Hesding holds of the bishop … he passed this manor away by sale to John Shelley of Hall-place, in Bexley, whose ancestors had been settled at …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the local tradition that the place was called Lockshire's Moat, after a supposed Sir John Lockshire, who had a house … manors of Chelsham Court and Titsey paid annual rents of 4 s. and 6 s. respectively to Chelsham Watevile with suits of … and all the chambers and parlours at the north end of the hall of the tenement called Welles, the stable, orchard, 'the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… south the ground rises steeply to 640 ft. at Margett's Hill on the boundary of the parish. Since 1910 the … century. In the middle, east of the break, is an oval bull's-eye window to the lower story and above it is a … 312 Chas. II. Dugd. 588. Gamekeepers' Deputations, Shire Hall, Warwick. Ibid. White, Direct. of Warws. G.E.C. Complete …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the river valleys also, the most striking being St. Anne's Hill, west-by-north of the town. It is only 240 ft. above … to them. In the last is a Jacobean house, now the Queen's Head Inn, and the remains of the house where Cowley died in … as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee. St. Anne's Mission Hall was presented by Mr. Tulk in 1890. The cemetery is in …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… High Street, passing the George and Crown Hotels, the town hall is reached. It was partly rebuilt by Lord Chesham in … Great Germains to Little Germains on the slope of Fuller's Hill. The eastern branch is called Red Lion Street from the … the wheels of three corn-mills, the first of which, Lord's, is a 17th-century building with broad gables, and the …