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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a unit of aesthetic and historical interest. Manor Farm at Monkton Up Wimborne has a 16th-century timber-framed … almost entirely rebuilt. Close affinities with the church at Blandford Forum ( Dorset III, 19) suggest John and William … with the capitals of the pilasters define the stages. At the top a modillion cornice is surmounted by a plain …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… on the south and west and by the cliff on the north; at the south-west corner was the entrance. At the upper end the lower bailey was crossed by the ditch … in 1095. 6 Of Henry I it is stated that he held his court at Whitsuntide in 1110 'at New Windsor, which he himself had …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic record, but are … the Saxon period, when Edward the Confessor held his court at his hall at Old Windsor, 2 the site of the later castle formed part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the later English style, with a large square tower. At Guyhirn is a neat chapel, built in 1666, of which the … signifying either a running stream, or a tongue of land at the confluence of two rivers: before the diversion of their streams, the town might be described as situated at the confluence of the Ouse with the Nene. Corporation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… allotted in respect of the inn; this piece of land was let at £10 15 s. in 1851. In 1802 the Corporation sold the inn … classes of honest poor. The estate so purchased was at Fleet (Lincs.). In 1837 it produced £396, of which £180 … £49 annually in 1851. Parke also gave 28 acres of land at Elm to augment the salary of the Grammar School master. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… been a natural daughter of James II, who sought refuge at Wisbech after her father's downfall, earned a living as a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house show that there was high-quality stone building from at least the 12th century. 3 Stone and lime from Witney … in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at Westminster in 12923 and at Exeter and Winchester a little later, was presumably a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Hailey. There is, however, no evidence of a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly … of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster Lovell, and those south of the river dependent … 4 and an isolated medieval reference to a church at Curbridge was probably an error, arising possibly from the …
A Dictionary of London
… See Wolsies Gate. Wood and Co.'s Wharf On the Thames at the south end of William Street, west of Chatham Place … Dwellings (q.v.). Wood Street North out of Cheapside, at No.122, to London Wall (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon … Wood Wharf On the east and west sides of Trigg Lane, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677, and Strype, 1720 and 1755). …
The Environs of London
… now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from … pays the sum of 374l. 12s. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of about one shilling in the pound. The manor. … was lord of the manor of Woodfordhall in Essex, and died at his manor-house there, in 1420 10. Whether this was …