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A History of the County of Hertford
… Colne. The whole parish lies on the chalk formation, more or less deeply covered with gravel, sand, and brick earth. It … a very common feature in the old cottages in this part of Hertfordshire. The upper part of the sides and front of the … in Cassiobury Park, and the A and G companies of 2nd (Herts) Volunteer Battalion are stationed in the town. Inns in …
A History of the County of Hertford
… There is, however, still extant the will of Ethelgiva or Ethelgifu (9426), in which she leaves the 'land of … William Earl Cowper, in 1764, in the Lord Lieutenancy of Hertfordshire. From him the manor of Watford has descended … 572. Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. (Rolls Ser.), vi, 33. V.C.H. Herts. i, 315 b. Gesta Abbat. (Rolls Ser.), i, 296. Ibid. i, …
A History of the County of Essex
… marsh near Southall bridge, was mentioned as a 'drove way' or 'defence way for cattle' in 1557. 23 In the 1950s it was … the elder (d. 1433) of Shingle Hall, Sawbridgeworth (Herts). 131 Thereafter the estate was known as Leventhorpes. … 333. See J. Warburton's Map of Essex, Middlesex and Hertfordshire (1726) which shows main roads with junctions of …
A History of the County of Essex
… established as a proprietary church, probably in the 10th or 11th century. 57 The church was held with the manor by … of the house is a timber-framed building of the later 17th or early 18th century which has a double pile plan with a … later established a nonconformist church at Braughing, Herts. 82 Holland had died or resigned by 1658 when Nathaniel …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor was held of the honor of Lancaster until 1211 or later, but of the honor of Eye from 1233. 90 The … it before 1809 to George and Anne Caswell of Sacomb Park, Herts. George died in 1825 and Anne in 1829, 8 when the manor … are sections of brick and timber-framed walls of the 17th or early 18th century. An abandoned medieval fish-stew lies …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Two branches, the Drayton Stream and the Frays River, or Cowley Stream, which carries compensation water from the … were made in 1842 for the construction of regulating sills or weirs across both streams, 13 and one sill, across the … J. Warburton, J. Bland, P. Smyth, Map of Mdx., Essex and Herts. (1710: copy in B.M. Map Room, Crace Collection). …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the arms of Shanke gules, a fess between three escallops, or, impaling gules, three arrows or, feathered argent, Hales. … thus Aston on the Trent or Derwent; and the river Ben in Hertfordshire, Ashby in Domesday, wrote Esseby, now included … Ashbourn, or Esseburn in Derbyshire; Ashwell, Escewell in Hertfordshire; Esse, in the British tongue signifies an …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which existed in the 1720s was apparently of 16th- or early 17th-century date; its entrance front, which faced … later 18th century, but the entrance range was repaired or rebuilt after 1749: the new nine-bayed, two-storeyed … locally from 1308, 56 may have come from Clothall (Herts.). 57 Adam of Clothall married one of the daughters of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Eastern line was opened from Stratford to Broxbourne (Herts.) in 1840, extended to Hertford in 1843 and Cambridge … Many of the railway stations in West Ham were enlarged or rebuilt from time to time to deal with increasing traffic. … the numbered sub-districts formed in 1917 four lay wholly or mainly in West Ham: Stratford (E. 15), Plaistow (E. 13), …
The Environs of London
… from two brooks (of which the Brent is one) which run near or through it. It is called West Twyford, to distinguish it … the Moyles. Henry Bold, the poet. Fabian Philips. A survey or visitation of the church of Twyford, anno 1251, mentions … was then Taylor, put out for scandal at Hempsted in Hertfordshire 26. He had for his salary at Twyford 10 l. The …