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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 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acacia Avenue, East Acton village and the site of Manor House, and Acton park. Brickearth covers the rest of East …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… reduced. 43 In 1629 William Ball of Willesden sold his house in Acton to the parish officers, who paid a rent for it as the parish house until 1681. There was no workhouse, but almshouses were built in 1725 on the site of a house in the Steyne which the churchwardens had bought from …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to Geoffrey de Lucy, dean of St. Paul's, his mansion house in Acton and 128 a., and later also granted land near … William 5 marks a year for life. 54 In 1285 they granted a house and 2 carucates in Acton to William the seneschal of … 1312 William the seneschal granted to Adam de Herewinton a house, 1½ carucate of arable, 40 a. of meadow, 15 a. of wood, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were several Methodists, who were said to have a meeting house. 41 In the early 19th century both Independents and … In 1804 Protestant dissenters registered for worship a house in the possession of William Gee, 42 and in 1810 Calvinists registered another house for worship and a Sunday school in the western end of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in High Street in the grounds of the Bell, later Suffolk House, by Thomas Thorney, who in 1612 left a rent charge on … a pump there; 79 Friars Place Farm had a pump behind the house; 80 two deep wells were found under Derwentwater House on its demolition. 81 Edward Tuffin dug a well in front …