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The Environs of London
… Francis Coventry, curate of this place, was author of a well-known romance called The Life of Pompey the Little; and … Martyn. The present incumbent is the Rev. Thomas Martyn, well known for his useful publications in botany, and Regius …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… house, built of white brick, had some twenty rooms, as well as stables and outbuildings. 26 The old house was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… area and the meadowland was concentrated in the flat and well-watered area in the south. Apart from Franklin's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… been constructed to mean 'Ecgi's weir or fishing pool' may well indicate that either Dean's Brook or Edgware Brook was … and its site was being used for the erection of a close of neo-Georgian houses. Edgwarebury House, now a … 98 Apart from a few incumbents, 99 there have been no well-known residents in the parish. The AngloIrish writer …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… although later in its history the manor certainly had close connexions with the manor of Kingsbury. 3 Stanmore was … the manor had appurtenances in Kingsbury parish; the close connexion between the manors of Edgware and Kingsbury, … although until at least 1625 they were always renewed well before they fell due. Earlsbury, a name which first …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the government. The merchants raised a body of 700 men, well armed and accoutred, and the craftsmen of the various … James with the Princess Anne of Denmark, they fitted out a well-equipped vessel to Denmark, to bring home the king and … any other part of Great Britain, and for confining him in close custody for one year, for abolishing the town-guard, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… House, held by the Melliars and later by the Fields, lies close to the road on a long narrow plot and is built of local … kitchen, and two bedrooms on the first floor. A light-well between the two parts was roofed as a toplit lobby. By … former railway. 6A sulphurous spring was known as the Holy Well in 1791; 7its surroundings were restored in 1937. 8 The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Kimmeridge clay lands of mid-west Wilts; it is low and well watered, rising from about 150 ft. at the boundary with … century. 69 In 1798 the ruins of the house still stood in well-kept gardens. 70 The house now called the Priory must, … bond half-virgaters. In addition, there was a house and a close of 16 a. at Feltham, near Ivymill Farm, which were held …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… brought into profitable cultivation; the lands have been well drained, and inclosed chiefly with sunk fences, faced … 1813, and contains 500 sittings. The parochial school is well conducted; the master has a salary of 34, with a house … of Gordon, and divides that of Ednam into two parts, flows close to the village, and has two stone and two wooden …