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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… with 4 carucates of land, 6 villains, 6 borderers, and one servus; there was also one carucate in demean, &c. and 2 carucates of the tenants, &c. 10 acres of meadow, &c. a … carucate, with another that was held by commendation only, and 4 carucates of meadow. Ralph Earl of Norfolk added to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… in his Warpentac of Wardebec or Ofwaldbec, was one car. and six bov. for the geld. 1 The land three car. twelve … bord: had ten car: meadow two quarent. long, one qu: and an half broad. The value in the Conquerours time was 26s. … sochm: three bord: with three car: meadow two quarent. and an half long, and eighteen perches broad, pasture wood …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of persons belonging to Clearwell are employed in the coal and iron mines in the parish and in the adjacent Forest of … the scenery is rich and pleasing, and abounding with fine orchards. There are quarries of lias and blue limestone, … near their site. Of these houses, which generally had tea-gardens, and were rendered more attractive by musical …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Together with the adjoining parishes of Whittlebury and Silverstone (in Greens Norton hundred), it forms a … the 1580s replaced the medieval manor house and laid out gardens on the adjoining closes. Throckmorton inherited … also built a new mansion, again with elaborate gardens, in 1582, which was used to accommodate James I or …
Survey of London
… by properties along the north side of Clerkenwell Green and on the north by Bowling Green Lane and Corporation Row, … were converted to form private mansions with spacious gardens (Ill. 9). Demolition within the core of the convent … Infilling and building development on some of the old gardens in the precinct is evident on Ogilby & Morgan's …
Survey of London
… Clerkenwell Close area Middlesex House of Detention site, and other buildings Middlesex House of Detention site 43. The … north-west corner of the field, with a 'Great Orchard' and gardens, which he left to his male heirs to become the … or so houses and an inn, the Cherry Tree, with large gardens ranged between a burial ground and a public laystall. …
Survey of London
… is the only known building of importance by the architect and surveyor James Carr. It replaced the ancient church of … since the creation of the parish of Clerkenwell in 1176, and after the nunnery's suppression the building was retained … was augmented before 1500 to include St James the Less, and by 1540 the church seems to have been rededicated to St …
Survey of London
… 92). But though it is widely thought of as the natural and historic centre of Clerkenwell, its origins are not those … priory, had by the 1570s been walled off and divided into gardens, soon afterwards covered with houses, some facing the … apartments fronting the two streets, there are gardens, pedestrianized courtyards and walkways in the space …
Survey of London
… Road CHAPTER XIV. Clerkenwell Road Clerkenwell Road and Theobalds Road were constructed by the Metropolitan Board … an intended cross-capital arterial road, linking West End and East End. Less than half the route passes through the old … (Ills 546, 547). For some of the way, between Goswell Road and St John Street, Clerkenwell Road was adapted from …
Old and New London
… of 2) CHAPTER XL. CLERKENWELL. House of DetentionExplosion and Attempted Rescue of Fenian PrisonersSt. John's GateKnights Hospitallers and Knights Templars Rules and Privileges of the Knights of … father had been proprietor of the fashionable "Marybone Gardens," and his sister made the seed and plum-cake for that …