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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 3 m. S.E. of Sherborne. The church, Manor House, West Hall and Font le Roi are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … The walls are of local rubble with freestone dressings and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The church was … later king-posts. West Hall in the Parish of Folke The Gardens have brick walls erected in 1717, the date appearing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises about 1450 acres: the surface is hilly, and from the higher grounds are some of the finest views in … is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at 12, and in the gift of Earl Delawarr: the tithes have been commuted for 200, and the glebe comprises 10 acres. The church is in the early …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… 6 in. (a)V S.W., (b)IX N.W.) Folksworth is a small parish and village 6 m. S.W. of Peterborough. The church is the … are covered with slates. The church, consisting of chancel and Nave, was built about the middle of the 12th century. The South Transept was added c. 1300, and the South Porch in the first half of the 16th century. …
The Environs of London
… CRAY. Name. This place takes its name from the river Cray, and from Godwin Fot, its owner, in the reign of Edward the … bounded by Chislehurst, North Cray, Paul's Cray, Bexley, and Eltham, It contains between seven and eight hundred acres of land; about two-thirds of which …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the 20th century gave its name first to an airfield and then to an open prison, lies on the west bank of the … corroborates. 38 The parish had 474 a. (192 ha.) in 1881 and in 1971, 39 and was enlarged in 1985 by the addition of … earthworks were still visible in the 1980s. 39 A garden or gardens were mentioned in 1284 and later, 40 but although …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 36 lying over four miles (7 km.) north of Newmarket and thirteen north-east of Cambridge, covered 4,204 a. until … oblong, but with substantial projections to north, west, and south. 38 The incurving boundaries to the east and south … and early 20th centuries Fordham was notable for nursery gardens. Traces have been found in Fordham, in the form of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hayward arranged in 1811-12 to pull down those almshouses and take their site, buying for the parish in exchange a plot … a house on Market Street bought in 1713 as a town house and bought in 1812 a house next to that given by Hayward. In the 1830s the six dwellings housed widows and old people rent free, and the new house, in better …
A History of the County of Essex
… presenting, except in 1391, 1451, 1454, 1486, 1492, and 1533 when the king presented. After the ownership of the … the patronage alternated between the lords of Fordham Hall and Great Fordham manors, except that the bishop of London … 6 a. adjoining the house, which included 'pretty pleasure gardens'. 52 In the Middle Ages rectors, some pluralists, …