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A History of the County of Buckingham
… BURNHAM with LOWER BOVENEY Burneham (xi cent.). The old parish of Burnham consisted of several districts or … Six years later the house was described as 'certainly very old'; a pair of new gates was wanted and the fence from … baker's shop of rather a later date. Further north are the Swan Inn and a house opposite, both of the early 17th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1975, by when small groups of new houses and an old peoples' unit had been built on the south-western edge of … held in Burrough Green for two days in June. In 1961 an old Whit-Monday fair was said to have been revived several … above, plate facing p. 81. Evelyn, Diary, iii. 5523. Cart. Old Wardon (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xiii), pp. 1379. Dugdale, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… side of Netley Hill, on a southern spur of which stands an old ivy-covered windmill which serves as a landmark for miles … in distinction from the upper village, which is called Old Bursledon. Between the church and the southern part of … trade has long ago vanished, but traces of the old docks may still be seen close to the present railway …
A History of the County of Surrey
… in the middle of a very large moated inclosure; the old house has been lately rebuilt. Court Lodge Farm, just … is now no house, but which is probably the site of the old manor-house of Burstow Court, taken down in 1786. 2 … earliest mention attached to a manor (Wimbledon) in the old settled part of the county. There are Baptist chapels at …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The head is a low-pitched gable with a coping of old restoration. The north wall is of later fine-jointed … is a pointed locker with rebated jambs and fitted with an old unhinged wood shutter. Under the north window is a … has a parapet with a moulded coping and string-course, an old restoration or addition. The low-pitched roof of two bays …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the tower and spire were taken down and rebuilt with the old materials, and the flat roof of the chancel removed. In … the nave was lengthened to the east by three bays, the old arches immediately adjoining the new work being adapted … with good coupled buttresses and moulded plinth. The old stones having been used in the rebuilding, it has lost …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… conveyed to the living in 1850. Opposite the church is the old Manor House of Bury, a late 16th-century half-timber … property of Mr. Joseph Mitcham. In a field south of the old Manor House of Bury, the site of a Roman Camp is marked … arch of the south doorway was reset from the old wall. Beside it is a stoup which was found in rebuilding …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The nave is of little architectural interest. The old window on the north side is a square-headed opening of … modern or a restoration. The gable coping and finial are old. The line of the old nave roof on the east side of the tower shows the ridge …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the Bushey Heath inclosure award above referred to, and old ones were stopped and diverted. There is a railway … with tiled roofs and the later slated. There are a few old half-timbered houses notably 'Friedheim,' and No. 53, … year. John Gale, who died in 1695, as appears in the old parish register, 'gave a Haberdine fish (barrelled cod, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… four great baulks of timber which carried the frame in the old tower. This stone still remains in the churchyard, but … 104 Habington records 105 that in the east window of the old church there were the effigies of Lord Edward le … his wife, which were in 'the midst of the chancel' in the old church, are now fixed to the wall at the west end of the …