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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Breccles-Magna, or Graet Breccles BRECCLES-MAGNA, OR GREAT BRECCLES. The church of Breccles-Magna was dedicated to St. Margaret, and was … manor, called Breccles Mere, and a good old seat, or manor-house, in which the present owner resides; it is called …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Caston CASTON Church is dedicated in honour of the … marks, and paid 20 d. Peter-pence; 1 there is a noble new house built by Mr. Shuckburgh, and about 60 acres of glebe. … The present valuation is 479 l. 6 s. 8 d. There is an old house cross the road at the end of the steeple, said to be an …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Elingham-Parva or Little Elingham ELINGHAM-PARVA, … Joins to Rockland and Elingham-Magna, and was the lordship of Aluric, a freeman in the time of the Confessor. It was … the vicarage of Elingham-Magna. There is a neat parsonage-house, built by Mr. Cater, adjoining to the north-west part …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Great Carbrook GREAT CARBROOK. This town is … sons, that might probably be the first Commander of this house; but to say positively it is so, I do not pretend; they … always were obliged to eat together in publick, or be in commons, as we now express it, there being vast numbers of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Griston GRISTON. Greston, or Griston, as it is … and indeed it is a soil that produces abundance of it. The Church here was dedicated to St. Margaret, and was … Percy Bishop of Norwich assigned the vicar his vicarage-house, which was to be the south part of the rectoryhouse, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Little Carbrook LITTLE CARBROOK. Carbrook-Parva was an exempt belonging to the Commandry of St. John at Great Carbrook, to which house it was appropriated, along with Carbrook-Magna, and the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Merton MERTON, Meretuna, Merton, or Martin, as it … was a great favourer of the monks of Lewes, 3 to which house he confirmed 60 acres of his demeans in this town, and … his deed of confirmation, which is dated in Lewes chapter-house, in the presence of Sir Osbert de Cailly, Sir John de …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Saham-tony SAHAM-TONY Church is dedicated to St. … rectory, as it now continues. There is a very good house, to which belongs a rectory manor and 23 acres of … wood called North-Tweyt, and liberty of commonage on Saham commons, and also the tithes of all the wood sold out of his …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Scoulton SCOULTON Church is dedicated to the Holy … manor had free-warren, assize of bread and beer, a manor-house, windmill and fishery, and was worth 11 l. 7 s. per … which Constantine had license to embattle his manor-house here in 1319. In 1402, on the division of the Mortimers …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Hundred of Wayland Stow STOW Joins to the east side of Breccles, and … Stow-Bydon, from its ancient lords; [stou] signifies a house, or place of habitation, and often, by way of eminence, … called Bekerton-Hamlet, and Bekerton, alias Water-House manor. The most ancient lord that I meet with after the …