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Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke) BENSON The large and thriving village of Benson - by far the most populous … (which contained most of the Benson demesne and copyhold land) remained an integral part of the manor into … 15 Outside Benson manor, a mixture of leaseholders and copyholders occupied varied holdings under the other chief …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Berrick Salome BERRICK SALOME The small and relatively scattered village of Berrick Salome occupies … mentioned in 1382, 5 the latter remaining a manorial copyhold and the former a freehold. 6 Lower Berrick Farm, on … retained more modest farms: in 1678 Magdalen had nine copyholders still including the Mores and Wises, with some of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Bassett village lies 12 km. SSW. of Swindon. 1 The long and narrow parish, 563 ha. (1,391 a.), lies east-west and a … then included a nominal 247 a. in them, and his four copyholders had a nominal 204 a. Both the demesne and the … farms worked from the village, one of 110 a. and a 45-a. copyhold of the Prebendal estate, both with buildings beside …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Hackney boundary, between marshland to the east and west which is included in the district described below. The heath was waste of Stepney manor and used as common pasture in 1275 when at least one … 4 There was no building on the adjoining freehold and copyhold estates, although it was contemplated on Sotheby's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… grants of waste on the west side of the road, initially as copyhold but converted to 500-year leases in 1585. The plots … with frontages from north to south of 120 ft., 120 ft., and 450 ft. respectively. Between 1582 and 1585 one house had been built on the first plot and two …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard … Some 9 a. in two closes 57 abutting Markhams and Colemans copyhold were sold by Smyth and others to David Murray of St. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Local Government LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANORIAL AND EARLY PARISH GOVERNMENT. Bethnal Green lay wholly within … By 1640 Bethnal Green had a constable, two headboroughs, and an aleconner. 83 The officers, elected at the October … elect the trustees from those possessing a freehold or copyhold estate of £8 a year or leasehold estate of £12, or …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Settlement and Building to 1836 SETTLEMENT AND BUILDING SETTLEMENT AND BUILDING TO 1836. Early … the medieval houses, mostly cottages which gave rise to copyhold tenements, clustered around it, chiefly on the north …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The East: Old Ford Lane, Green Street, and Globe Town THE EAST: OLD FORD LANE, GREEN STREET, AND GLOBE TOWN. For centuries the area east of the green was … disappeared by 1750. 78 In 1790 Charles Digby, whose copyhold estate of Eastfields had been enfranchised, sold …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… particularly in the north-east near St. Winifred's well and St. George's chapel, the area possibly identifiable with … The village was defined on the east by Rushy (Russia) Lane and the Back Lane (Globe Road), which separated it from the … end. North of the green and the later Old Ford Road were copyhold houses belonging to the Dickens family, probably by …