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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are the ruins of an ancient mansion, once the seat of the family of Hastings, earls of Pembroke. The Rev. Edward Lye, … about 400 acres of land, the property of the Tunnicliff family, who reside at the Hall, a neat mansion situated on a … way, and those upon it were plunged into the water below: 79 lives were lost. Yarmouth is not a manufacturing town, but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Early in the 15th century, when the house belonged to the family of Threlkeld, this range was largely re-built and … in the 16th century the property passed to the Dudley family when the upper part of the tower was re-built; the … in the 17th century and the house passed to the Lowther family in 1671. The house is an important example of a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… lawn in the early 20th century. 22 Members of the Sparks family, owners of an engineering works, lived at Church … Boxgrove was presented for leading dancing on Sundays. 79 The parish bounds were still beaten at Rogationtide in the … c. 1910, 22 and by 1924 had passed to the Sparks family. 23 Yapton House 24 or Place, 25 the presumed manor …
A History of the County of Somerset
… were said to be light and dark blue marls at Woolston. 79 The turnpike road from Ansford to Sherborne passed through … the 18th century. 78 It was known as the Old park in 1540 79 and thereafter was divided into large fields. 80 … A further 40 a. was under orchard. In 1838 the Rogers family had c. 940 a. and after the purchase of Woolston in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 73 Hugh Evans, 1579-1618, married a member of the Minn family and, unusual among Yarnton's incumbents, was a working … not found again in Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in Wootton parish, … undertaken in 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer. 98 A spacious family chapel was built at the east end of the south aisle, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the earl of Cornwall's yardland tenants of 1279. Of 33 family names recorded in 1327, 19 had occurred in 1279. Few … for which such farms were well suited. After the Weston family sold its estate to Exeter College in 1739 75 there … said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school, with three classrooms and an average attendance of 79. Senior children went to Gosford, in Kidlington parish. 68 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… more settlements in Yarnton at the time of Domesday Book, 79 or only a single settlement south and west of the later … recorded from the 1750s, and was for long held by the Pitt family. 32 It comprised a long thatched block, possibly … establishing a pre-eminence in the neighbourhood that his family never fully recovered after the Civil War. During the …