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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… pleasant, the soil of it is in general very fertile, being a loam, covering the quarry rock at no great depth. It is … fruit grounds, with both which it abounds, and there is a general neatness kept up here in the culture of them, which … White's Centuries, p. 2. Calamy's Life of Baxter, p. 2. Blomfield's Hist. Norf. part ii. p. 643. He was in 1731 …
A History of the County of Bedford
… cent.). Lightgrave, Litgrave (xvxvii cents.). Luton is a large parish comprising, with its hamlets, 15,434 acres, of … towns would be thrown out of employment. 11 Francis Blomfield, writing of Luton between 1724 and 1734, says: 'It … Leland mentions Luton market as famous for its barley, and Blomfield, writing between 1724 and 1734, says it was noted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Marsh Baldon Green and the village, and proceeds in a series of rightangled turns eastwards; the old southern … made in 1830 by Richard Collisson. The letters C and W denote consolidated arable holdings owned respectively by … 340; Cal. Pat. 12921301, 14, 61. Cal. Close, 128896, 485. Blomfield, Bicester Deanery ( Heyford Bridge), 7. Cal. Inq. …
A History of the County of Essex
… east of Harlow town. 1 The ancient parish comprised 2,417 a. (978.2 ha.), including a detached portion of 1.5 a. … It descended with Down Hall until 1920, when Major Horace W. Calverley sold it to Thomas J. Howard, who had been the … was restored and enlarged in 1875 to designs by Sir Arthur Blomfield, at the cost of Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt. 248 …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… It consists mainly of two parallel streets separated by a water-course and bordered with stone houses with red pantile roofs. The church stands in a prominent position at the east end of the village, the … of the manor of Lyng, a member of the honour of Richmond (Blomfield, Norf. vi, 230). Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. II, no. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The parish of Merton, 1 covering 1,932 acres, lies about a mile to the south of Bicester, mostly in the plain of the … in 1629, and a tankard flagon of silver presented by L. W. Rawlinson in 1857. 285 The western tower contains two … parish records, PageTurner family records, the Revd. J. C. Blomfield's MSS. &c. See above, p. 222. J. Harrison, Maps of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Middleton Stoney MIDDLETON STONEY Middleton Stoney is a parish of 1,853 acres, bounded on the west by the Aves … xxii. 7, 8 (1881). Dunkin, Oxon. ii. 57. The architect was W. D. Little. A copy of the printed catalogue of the library … 25(2)/198, East. 39 Eliz. O.R.O. J I a/1. According to Blomfield ( Mid. 32) Harman was descended from the family of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish of Evenley (Northants). The modern parish (2,449 a.) is smaller than the ancient one (2,972 a.), 1 which … of the cottage chimneys were constructed of wood', 14 and Blomfield, writing at the end of the century, describes them … 16308) and which was taxed on three hearths in 1665. 18 W.J. Palmer on his institution as rector in 1802 obtained a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… long and narrow, being 1 miles long and mile broad: it was a comparatively new unit, for at the time of Domesday Book a … rubble stone and are thatched. One bears the inscription w w e 1662. Two groups of cottages at the south end were … supplied by Miss B. Gough, Newton Purcell. Blo. Newt. 9. Blomfield suggests that inclosure took place during the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… to 2,228 acres. The land is mainly permanent pasture. A private Act, unprinted, 2 was passed in 1807 for the … ground floor, with a panel in the gable inscribed '1626 W.W.,' the initials being those of William Whitwell, who … of St. Thomas of Canterbury. It was designed by Sir A. W. Blomfield, and is in plan a Greek cross with central …