Search
The Environs of London
… meadow seems to intimate that it is the site of a moated house, of which there have been several in the neighbourhood, … President, the Council of State, many of the Nobility, the House of Commons, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common … leased all this their manor of Acton, with the mansion-house, &c. to the said Geossry for his life, rendering …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… walls are stuccoed and the roofs are slate-covered. The house has been so extensively altered, particularly in 1802, … features are modern or have been renewed. There was a house here in the 16th century and it is possible that the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… or fairly good, unless noted. (2). Sinton's End Farm, house and barns 1,520 yards S.E. of the church. The House was built probably in 1633, on an L-shaped plan with … early in the 18th century. A piece of oak beam from the house and now preserved at Sevington in the same parish, is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Scott in the later 13th century 51 but no later public house is known. About 1730 the parish wake was said to be on … purchase in 1553 of a moiety of Oakwood common and a chief house at Henley. 91 William Leyngleys's daughter Margery of … Acton also planted fir, larch, Spanish chestnut, elm, beech, walnut, and lime around the manor, and established a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1725 almshouses were built in the Steyne on the site of a house which the parish had bought in 1681 for the poor. 65 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Mary existed by 1231, when Walter, rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church served the whole … a year. 88 The living consisted in 1650 of the parsonage house with outbuildings and 1 a. of pasture, valued at £10 a … also received c. £165 a year in fees. 94 The parsonage house, near the Steyne and Horn Lane, was rebuilt c. 1725 by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… its estate for 61 years in 1686 and the whole, except the house, 10 a., and an orchard, was sublet to six tenants. In … could again graze 2 sheep for every acre and 12 for each house or cottage, but bachelors could not keep any. 92 In … in East field, where a new 10-a. close south of the manor house existed at the same date, 98 and in Turnham field 5 a. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and supervised by a committee of 14; 35 the round house and coal house by the north-west corner of the church were to be … it had c. 110 pupils, taught by a salaried mistress with a house and supported entirely by subscriptions. The poor were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… c. 1735, when the Somerset family lived in Acton in a house which was not part of the estate, there were no large … Sutton bought the seat at East Acton known later as Manor House in 1610 and Sir Henry Garraway probably rebuilt Acton … were 318 flats by 1948, in 6 four-storeyed blocks along Beech Avenue, with a recreation ground on the north side. 87 …