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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 6 miles (S. E.) from Barnsley; containing 1704 inhabitants. This … outer walls. Sir Robert de Harley obtained this castle and estate in the reign of Edward II., by marriage with the … in 1832. A free school and almshouses were built by Robert Smith, about the close of the sixteenth century, and endowed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton, and Wylye. 3 Stockton, a possession of St. Swithun's priory, Winchester, was transferred to Elstub hundred, which was also the priory's, before 1249. 4 Otherwise the composition of Branch hundred … Stoford, Chilhampton, North Ugford, and possibly Burden's Ball, in Wilton parish most of Ditchampton, and in Wylye …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Most of the cultivated land was let by the abbey for 100 s. a year to a monk named Eadric, who possibly held it on … A villein called Bruning the reeve presumably managed the estate. 2 Medieval Grange There was presumably a grange (or … for the period from Candlemas (2 February) to St. James's day (25 July) as the holme was common for the rest of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton and Lichfield over the stream marking Branston's southern boundary existed by 1395. It was a county bridge … Branston township. Near the southern boundary Robin Hood's ford, so called in 1546, was presumably part of a route to … Village The name Branston is Old English and means an estate belonging to a man called Brant, a personal name of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Branston Manor Manor In 942 King Edmund granted an estate at Branston to Wulfsige the Black, possibly an … 14th century 16 was evidently associated with the abbey's grange at Shobnall in Burton Extra, but it later became … what was then called 'Seaney Lodge' and the park to Simon Smith, the park keeper. Smith seems not to have lived there, …
A Dictionary of London
… west side of Warwick Lane and north of Warwick Square (O.S. 1880). Occupied the site of the College of Physicians … Alley " (q.v.), 1559-78 (End. Charities Rep. St. Sepulchre's, 1902, p. 8). Rebuilt for business purposes. Braziers' Hall … 1761, and Boyle, 1799. Rebuilt in the 19th century. Brazil's Rents In East Smithfield (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1836. A meeting-house was erected by Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, in 1825; and there is also a national school. … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 16. 17.; net income, 227; patrons and … At Holwell and Kelmscott are chapels of ease. On the estate of Broadwell Grove may be traced the line of the Roman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Brasenose Hall, who died in 1508, bequeathing 6 13 s. 4 d. towards the building of 'Brasynose in Oxford, if such … DE. BRASIN. NOSE. IN. OXONIA. Principals 1512 Matthew Smith 1548 John Hawarden 1565 Thomas Blanchard 1574 Richard … a chapel, cloister, and library above it, his Piddington estate, valued at 1,600. 125 This bequest made it possible …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Marble which gives way on the lower slopes to Fuller's Earth interspersed on the west with a band of limestone. 7 … via Shepton Montague and through the village to Jack White's Gibbet, but it was evidently not made until after 1810. A … leaving as his heir his brother Henry, a minor. 47 The estate was then described as a manor. 48 In 1393 feoffees …