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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… largest town described in this volume, stands in a curve of the R. Stour which bounds it to S. and W. The land varies … in altitude between 100 ft. and 200 ft. above O.D. and is of Valley Gravel and Chalk. Habitation probably originated in … of Ryves. Organ: (Plate 100) built in 1794 by England ( Salisbury Journal, Sept. I, 1794), moved in 1895 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or Blackney ( St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, Second division of the wapentake of Langoe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 10 miles …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Blaston BLASTON Blaston lies eight miles north-east of Market Harborough and five miles south-west of Uppingham (Rut.) in the valley of a small stream which is a tributary of the brook flowing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace In the winter of 1704-5 John Churchill, duke of Marlborough engaged Sir John Vanbrugh to build a house in … in 1719. After the duke's death in 1722 Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, completed the chief features of Vanbrugh's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Park from 1705 Park From 1705 The laying out of the gardens and park, begun in 1705 at the same time as the building of Blenheim Palace, was the work of Henry Wise, the royal … extraordinary and to exceed anything of that nature in England'. 61 Wise, who while laying out the gardens lived in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the chase led to the establishment at Woodstock of a hunting lodge, presumably by the reign of Ethelred II (978-1016) when a witan was held 'at Woodstock … that such a rural pavilion as Everswell, unique in England, may have followed Sicilian examples known to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… medieval king's houses and park at Woodstock formed part of a conglomerate royal manor. Woodstock manor and its … contiguous royal estates 'commonly called the demesnes of Woodstock', 36 sharing customs usually associated with … Old Woodstock, which earlier had been treated as part of Wootton. The borough of New Woodstock, created out of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BLENNERHASSET, with Kirkland, a township, in the parish of Torpenhow, union of Wigton, Allerdale ward below Derwent, … manor was in the possession of Harold, afterwards king of England: William I. settled the whole on the see: and after the foundation of Norwich cathedral, the bishops held the demesne in their own hands, and had a palace …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Blidworth, Bludword Blidworth, Bludword. The Book of Doomsday shews that the Archbishop of York, before the Conquest, had in Blidword a Mannor which … three leuc. long, and one broad; Calvreton was a Berue of this Mannor, and both in the Confessours time were valued …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Blith. Blide BLITH. BLIDE. I Find little of Blyth in the book of Doomsday, saving that here was soc to Ordesach one bov. . … There four vill. and four bord. had one car. and one acre of medow. and that here was likewise soc to the Kings manor …