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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Acton Beauchamp AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN EAST HEREFORDSHIRE … sentence to which reference should be made. The key-plans of those churches which are not illustrated by hatched plans … or fairly good, unless noted. (2). Sinton's End Farm, house and barns 1,520 yards S.E. of the church. The House was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (1,934 a., 783 ha.) 1 is a long, roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes … to Wall's Bank in 1878. 19 The Buildwas to Craven Arms railway line of 1867, eventually part of the G.W.R., … Scott in the later 13th century 51 but no later public house is known. About 1730 the parish wake was said to be on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… In 1725 almshouses were built in the Steyne on the site of a house which the parish had bought in 1681 for the poor. 65 … thereupon granted some copyhold tenements on the west side of the Steyne, where six cottages were built for the poor 67 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… dedicated to St. Mary existed by 1231, when Walter, rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church served the whole … until 1872. 83 The benefice was a rectory in the gift of the bishop of London. 84 The church was valued at £13 6 s. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the highway in their parishes and as far as the City of London, 8 and a Londoner left money towards its repair in … 10 In 1737 it was proposed to use the spring east of Acton town to keep the road clear. 11 The worst stretch … Avenue later joined Uxbridge Road by the former King's Arms. A highway leading south from the top of Acton hill to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Agrarian history. Agrarian History The field system of the five-hide holding that became the Somerset estate was distinct from that of Acton manor elsewhere in the parish. The estate, covering … its estate for 61 years in 1686 and the whole, except the house, 10 a., and an orchard, was sublet to six tenants. In …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… William Antrobus, in 1805 offered to assist the foundation of a school for the poor; 33 nothing further was mentioned, … said to have been established in 1808 under the auspices of the rector and supported by subscriptions. 34 In 1815 a … and supervised by a committee of 14; 35 the round house and coal house by the north-west corner of the church …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Growth GROWTH. Prehistoric settlement is attested by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill … c. 1735, when the Somerset family lived in Acton in a house which was not part of the estate, there were no large … 48 probably with the Beeches. In 1829 the Goldsmiths' Arms was built at the corner of Friars Place Lane and East …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Introduction Acton Acton, 1 parish lies c. 8 km. west of Hyde Park Corner, 2 bounded on the north by Willesden and … the 1930s. 4 From 1965 Acton has formed the eastern part of Ealing L.B. Most of the boundary with Hammersmith was … 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
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Manorial government. In 1294 the bishop of London successfully claimed view of frankpledge, … reduced. 43 In 1629 William Ball of Willesden sold his house in Acton to the parish officers, who paid a rent for it … base proper; on a chief or charged with a pale gules the arms of the Middlesex County Council, between on the dexter …