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Survey of London
… Chester Terrace CHESTER TERRACE To the south of Cumberland Place runs another remarkable line of mansions taking its name from the royal earldom of … Carsdale, 1838. No. 29. Robert Kirby, 183235; James Le Man, 1836. No. 30. William Fox, 1828. No. 31. Peter Tevezant, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (b)V N.W.) Chesterton is a small parish on the S. bank of the Nene, 4 m. W. of Peterborough. The Roman station and the church are the … kneeling on either side of prayer-desk dated 1611; each man with his wife behind him, wearing turn-over head-dress, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Churches CHURCHES The patronage of the parish church at first belonged with the manor to the … 1190s 50and 1215. 51In 1217 Henry III presented a clerk of the papal legate, Cardinal Gualo, 52and the same year, out … 12possibly neglected their parochial duties. A Chesterton man was one of three Lollards compelled to abjure in 1455. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for £13 8 s. 4 d., besides £15 blanch in cash. Most of its arable, 12 out of 16 ploughlands, was apparently then in demesne, but there … manor in 1334 Robert the clerk held 52 a. and one other man 23 a., but most holdings were of 5 a. or less. 13 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 92The parishioners, however, agreed in 1729 to the use of £5 a year of the town land income to teach poor children to read. 93The … advertised for a master for its charity children; 95the man chosen was perhaps he who then opened a school teaching …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the manor, in which freeholds could be conveyed by a kind of fine. 78The priory had its own prison, from which an … house, where in 1287 a village constable placed a local man arrested for stealing. When the sheriff broke down the … and peace-breakers, apparently because Chesterton was part of the ancient demesne. 80 The privileges attached to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cheveley CHEVELEY Cheveley occupies a slice of chalk downland and clay-capped hills stretching south-east … (300 ft.), is on Middle and Upper Chalk underlying soils of gravelly loam, incised by the valley of a stream followed by the Newmarket-Ashley road. 53 In the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was divided into arable land in the Chalk valley north of the village, pasture closes and woods with a little arable … three fields, may be implied by the mid 13th-century names of West and Middle fields, 81 but otherwise a regular … never crystallized, and fields proliferated and were of irregular sizes. 82 On the clay, Stubbing field west of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The parish included two manors, Cheveley itself (the core of the Cheveley estate) and the much smaller and later … for Woodditton. 62 In 1066 it comprised five sixths of the township. 63 Between 1086 and 1130 the Crown granted … have been divided, since until the 1180s both the bishop of Ely and Aubrey de Vere, earl of Oxford, had interests in …
Survey of London
… L. K. Hall, Esq., F.R.I.B.A. General description and date of structure. Both these houses were built in 1717, and occupied the two first plots of the Great Garden, eastward from the Manor House. Indeed, … house itself, and it may be seen that the frontage line of the existing buildings changes at this point. The two …