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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 … 1991. 25 Henley Farm is an early 17th-century baffle-entry house, originally timber framed. It was largely clad in stone …
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 House in 1638. Sir John Trevor bought several properties in …