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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and continues south to Sutton Veny. West of it the large houses called Eastleigh Court and Draytons (formerly The … was inclosed in 1808, the surveyor did not include these houses on the map, possibly because they were then being … has been little recent building apart from a few council houses. Agriculture has always been the chief pursuit carried …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… given the hundred its numerous stone and stone-tiled farm-houses and clothiers' houses and stimulated a tradition of fine masonry which shows …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the lands that were held on lease with the two manor-houses in 1608; Over Court then had 291 a. and Higons Court … had been considerably reduced by the conversion of farm-houses to private residences, some large arable farms … who in 1842, when the mill was apparently used only as dye-houses, was leasing it to David Farrar. 4 The younger Charles …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… estates and the compact settlement of mills and clothiers' houses in Chalford Bottom, and the late 17th and early 18th … parish was the conversion of the traditional stone farm-houses as the homes of professional and retired people. The … before 1882, except that Chalford, where some of the houses and mills lay within Minchinhampton, is dealt with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in paupers was overcrowding the workhouse and parish houses the officers bought two cottages at Oakridge. 71 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the estate in 1919. 83 In the 16th century two manor-houses, Over Court and Higons Court standing near the church, … to the manor estate and presumably represented the chief houses of the estates of the earls of March and the Bisley … in the early 19th. An octagonal building in the grounds houses a cock-pit. In 1066 a hide, representing the later …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 18th and earlier 19th centuries numerous other meeting-houses and chapels, many of them Wesleyan or Primitive …