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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 4th Earl of First Lord 12 June 1711-5/16 Aug. 1712. D. 5 or 16 Aug. 1712. Windsor, Thomas (Windsor) 7th Lord …
A History of the County of Stafford
… name Alstonefield is Old English, meaning Alfstan's feld or open ground and perhaps reflecting the situation of the … derives from the Old English lad, meaning a watercourse or a crossing of a watercourse. 2 Gipsy Lane branching … 4 The early spelling of the name was normally Beveresford or a variant. 5 It has been suggested that the name derives …
A History of the County of Stafford
… is set on a barn attached to the 19th-century farmhouse, or on that of Big Fernyford, which is of the 18th or early 19th century. Further upstream Lower Fleetgreen, a house partly of the 17th century, probably stands on or near the site of a house called Fleetgreen in 1514. 52 By …
A History of the County of Stafford
… combines Old English hord, treasure, and hlaw, a hill or possibly a barrow. 77 There was a house at Stoney Cliffe … of Alstonefield manor. The house was known as Butcher's or Badger's Croft in the 18th century. 83 A house called … was bottomless and that cattle would not drink from it or birds fly over it was dismissed as fanciful by the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… area. 80 A village with a chapel and a school but no inn or shop lies in a secluded valley in the north-east corner. … directly from manufacturers in Manchester and employed two or three men to sell for him. He was declared bankrupt in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… who had extended their holdings paid only small rents or nothing at all. 8 About 1806 Sir Henry Harpur was advised … 11 He first visited his Alstonefield estate in 1819 or 1820, and he remarked later that he was probably the first … a fortnight of leaving office at either Archford bridge or Hayesgate, those being the customary places; he was not to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Carboniferous Limestone. On the sandstone the soil is clay or fine loam over clay; on the limestone it is loam. 34 … as Elkesdon, the name presumably referring to the dun, or hill, south-west of Upper Elkstone village. By the earlier … for Warslow and Longnor was held either on the day after or the day before a view for the rest of Alstonefield manor. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the parish. Monuments generally are located by six or eight-figure grid references and by orientation and … with recessed round-headed panels, moulded base; late 15th or early 16th century. Monument and Floor-slabs. Monument: In … a single-storied brick building of the late 18th or early 19th century containing coppers and a fireplace; a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundaries reflected a planned partition, during the 10th or early 11th century, of part of the large royal manor of … neighbouring Black Bourton at an unknown date. 6 Puttes or Pitlands closes, south of Alvescot village, and Bazeland or Batesland closes, adjoining the southern boundary, …