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Survey of London Monograph
… Biographical account CHAPTER II. BIOGRAPHICAL. It will be of interest to know something of the position and character of some of those to whom Brooke House hasat one time or …
Survey of London Monograph
… Descriptive account CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTIVE. The Front of Brooke House From the Clapton High Road one is neither … with the comparatively modern front, which gives no sign of the dignity and antiquity of which it is the screen. This … owes its inception. The following is a list of the chief books and MSS. consulted for historical and other …
Survey of London Monograph
… ear his deep and drowsy chime." 1 So sang the local poet of a dead and gone generation, and the sentiment is no less … once dwelt "Percy's gallant heir"with all its associations of a regal past, and much of its original splendour, remains … gallery, a proper chapel, and a proper library to laye books, in, &c.," situated on the London Road and enclosed on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S.E. (c)xliv. S.W.) Broomfield is a parish 2 m. N. of Chelmsford. The Church and Priors are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary The Virgin (anciently St. Leonard), stands in the village. The 11th-century walls are chiefly of lumps of brown boulder-clay with a few flints and short …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Broomfield in the late 11th century. 75 Maud Arundel, wife of Gerbert de Percy, gave Broomfield church to Wells cathedral c. 1175 at the request of Bishop Reginald to endow a prebend. 76 In the event … the Wells chapter seems to have retained only a pension of 2 s. a century later, 77 although the parish was within …
A History of the County of Somerset
… built in 1849 and in 1903 there were 55 children on the books. 35 Numbers declined to 22 in 1932 when the school was … was sold in 1957 for use as a village hall. 37 Educ. of Poor Digest (1819), p. 775; Ann. Rep. B. & W. Dioc. Assoc. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Broomhill - Brougham Broomhill BROOMHILL, in the union of Rye, partly in the hundred of Goldspur, liberty of … rectory, with that of Linley united, valued in the king's books at 7. 18. 6., and in the gift of Lord Forester: the … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 5. 6. 8.; net income, 192; patrons and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The name Broseley probably means 'woodland clearing of the fort guardian', and much of Broseley remained wooded in the Middle Ages. 12 For 350 … woodpasture reserves to be, by the 18th century, one of the county's most populous towns, with mazes of hilly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… S.W., (c)VIII, N.W.) Brougham is a parish on the S. bank of the River Eamont, 11 m. N.W. of Appleby. The Roman station, the church, Brougham Chapel, … Roman b(1). Fort (Brocavum) situated immediately S.E. of the Castle and about 250 yards S.E. of the confluence of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. x. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Laurence, stands at the N.W. corner of the village; the walls are of coursed rubble; the roofs … c. 1465; sanctus, by James Keene, 1635; bell-frame, old. Books: In naveon each side of chancel arch, large, attached …