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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the Gifford water flows, between banks richly crowned with wood and thriving plantations, and comprehending much … surrounded by a spacious and richly wooded demesne. Newton Hall and Newhall are also good houses. The village of Gifford … 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, and the remainder …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Durobrivae shows twelve iron-working sites within the wood and two more to the N. (E. T. Artis, Durobrivae (1828), pl. I). The N. part of the wood where eight of the sites are shown, has been cleared and quarried. The remainder of the wood is dotted with many pits and hollows; some are recent …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Ib, now two cottages. A stop-chamfered axial beam in the hall is inscribed '1591' and may indicate the building date …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is interwoven with the history of Yealand-Conyers. Yealand Hall, an ancient dwelling at Yealand-Storrs in the township, … 18 p., of which 793 acres are arable, 81 pasture, and 42 wood; the soil is strong and rather wet, but the lands …
A Dictionary of London
… "Aula Dacorum," the Guildhalla Teutonicorum, called "Olde Hall" by Stow in his description of Dowgate Ward (Memorials, … "Olde Halle" with the "Guildhalla Teutonicorum," the hall of the Hanse merchants. See Steelyard; Olde Halle. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and it … 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of 'old leys', and 75½ a. of wood and coppice, a total of 407 a.; 51 Boys wood and the Lawns, c. 29 a. of pasture acquired with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish, was bounded on the north and north-east by Boys wood and Home wood on a line which in 958 seems to have marked the limits … village was 12th- century pottery found beneath the hall of Yelford Manor. 96 The place name, of which the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… c. 21 m. Originally the central range comprised a 2-bayed hall, open to the roof and with a central hearth, at the … and Philip Walwyn were acting jointly over rent from Boys wood in Standlake, 2 and the bulk of the Yelford family's … the Walwyns' manor also included the Lawns, south of Boys wood and in Standlake, which as Boys breach had been granted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the only window retaining its old transomed and mullioned wood frame; both door-ways on the side fronts are now … finials. Between the walls above the bottom step is a flat wood arch, semi-circular in shape and supported on moulded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a moated manor house site for the area is known as Hall Close (local inf.). Immediately S.E. of this assumed …