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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with ivy, has a beautifully picturesque appearance. In the park is a large sheet of water called Micklemere, near which … and Scarisbrick. His son Charles, on succeeding to this estate, assumed the name of Dicconson, while his other son, … is a handsome stone structure with two small wings; the park abounds with deer and game: on the west side of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… c. 660. 6 In 1066 it was the centre of a royal multiple estate, probably containing the 7½ berewicks mentioned in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… erected in 1696, standing on elevated ground in a fine park, and surrounded by an estate of 2319 acres. Wroughton (St. John the Baptist and St. … hills richly wooded; from that on the south are seen the park and part of the mansion of Wycombe Abbey, the seat of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… groups of houses have the style of a freehold land society estate. More cramped terraces were erected east of the … Act. 24 By 1946 the remainder of the Woodhouse Crescent estate was built, with the neighbouring Gibbons Road estate being added in the mid 1950s. 25 In the 1970s and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Reynolds of Ketley began to work the mines on the Charlton estate, including those in Wrockwardine Wood, on his own … Trinder, op. cit. 33. J. R. Wordie, 'A Great Landed Estate in the 18th Cent.' (Reading Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1967), …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Norah Shoebotham subsequently left the residue of her estate to the hall, and part of the income was put towards … known as the Pemberton chapel. Fowler had a freehold estate in Wrockwardine that had belonged in 1650 to Eleanor, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nash, and Orleton. 76 It has been argued that the multiple estate was of considerable antiquity, perhaps succeeding … In 1982 Powis's nephew V. M. E. Holt owned the Orleton estate and possibly any manorial rights. In 1324 the manor … in 1742. In 1785 Edward Cludde left it with the Orleton estate to his nephew William Pemberton (later Cludde) and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the soil, is a neat mansion, standing in a finelywooded park about a mile south of the village. The living is a … every Friday in Lent. The same benefactor left a small estate for the use of the charity school; and on the …