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Survey of London
… mansion begun but not completed for Sir John Denham, poet and Surveyor General of Works, of which some parts still … the same time to the west of it for the Earl of Clarendon and Lord Berkeley. It was the smallest of the three and, as … for government offices. The site was to house the learned societies which it was proposed to remove from Somerset …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) BURNETT ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (S. … rectory, valued in the king's books at 5. 10. 7., and in the gift of the Rev. J. B. Doveton: the tithes have been commuted for 85. 8., and the glebe comprises 29 acres. The church is a neat …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burntwood Churches, education and charities CHURCHES. Ecclesiastically Burntwood remained … however, a large number of people from Burntwood, Edial, and Woodhouses were baptized and buried at Hammerwich chapel. 1 In 1818, encouraged by the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burntwood Manors, local government and public services MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. There was a manor of PIPE by 1135, the … parish of St. Chad, Lichfield. 2 Held as fee by the 1240s and assessed at 1 hide c. 1255, Pipe remained a member of the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Camp, 1 an Iron Age fort which occupies a promontory and commands a wide view of the Wreake valley. The ancient … of Gartree lying north-east of the main area. The eastern and western boundaries of the parish were also those of the … the two boundaries do not appear to have coincided, 3 and part of the parish was formerly regarded as being in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Buildings, manors and estates BURSLEM The borough of Burslem consisted by 1910 of the townships of Burslem 1 and Sneyd, Cobridge (formerly the vill of Rushton Grange), … groups, all of which were probably the work of building societies, were Amicable Buildings in Upper Hadderidge …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem was a chapelry in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent 1 and retained that status until 1809 when it was made … respects, however, it had parochial status before 1809, and indeed from the late 16th century it was often called a parish. 4 It organized its own poor relief and highway maintenance, 5 and by 1553 it had its own …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burslem Local government, economic history and social life Local Government and Public Services Burslem, though anciently part of the … century. 1 The parish included the townships of Burslem and Sneyd, which manorially were part of Tunstall manor. 2 …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… ground which forms the eastern slope of the Sence valley, and in the north-east the land rises to over 500 ft. The … miles long, is formed by a small tributary of the Sence, and another small brook runs through the parish to join the … largely of boulder clay, overlying Lower Lias clay and limestone, but the village itself is situated mainly on a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Burton-upon-Trent - Bushey Burton-Upon-Trent (St. Mary and St. Modwena) BURTON-UPON-TRENT ( St. Mary and St. Modwena), a parish, and the head of a union, partly in the N. division of the …