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A History of the County of York North Riding
… The roofs are high-pitched and covered externally with green slates. There is a ring of eight bells, the tenor by …
A History of the County of Hertford
… outlier of the Woolwich and Reading Beds near Leverstock Green. The light surface soil yields good wheat and barley, … out of Hemel Hempstead in 1844, 2 and in 1850 Leverstock Green was formed as a consolidated chapelry of Holy Trinity … Hemel Hempstead. 3 In 1872 parts of Boxmoor and Leverstock Green were included in the new consolidated chapelry of St. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Grey with all dams, etc., called 'Dame Rewes,' the Green before the door of the mills, and fishing in the dams, … yeoman. 71 The four watermills, the 'Dame Rowe,' the Green, and the fishery were, as parcel of the manor … of John Gunning; Mrs. Matilda (Gore) relict of Charles Green, d. 1787, and Charles William, son of Charles and Ann …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Stourton, who purchased it of John Norton, gent. This green seems formerly to have been called Downing-green, on which was a house called Downing-house, belonging …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… away towards Shalden, rising to over 680 ft. near Shalden Green. From Basingstoke, however, the main road to Alton …
A History of the County of Hertford
… On the well-wooded slopes to the south are Brickendon Green and Grange. A part of this district was at one time … 5 Fanshaws, a little to the north of Brickendon Green, is the property of Mrs. Kingsley. The house was built … first husband, who acquired property at Brickendon Green (including Fanshaws Farm), formerly part of the manor …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Park, on the Hertford road, is the hamlet of Cole Green. Birch Green and Staines Green are farther along the road towards Hertingfordbury. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Another branch, part of an ancient drove road known as Green Lane, ran from Over Norton Common east and south-east … by eight walks radiating from a sunken circular bowling green. There was a walled garden and a very large … Thomas Archer, 213; K. Downes, Eng. Baroque Archit. 14. D. Green, Blenheim Palace, pp. 62, 6872; ibid. Gardener to Queen …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… down to the River Wye. On the opposite bank stretched the green meadow land of the Rye with a steep beech-clad ridge … parishes of High Wycombe, Penn and Hughenden; and Tylers Green, 2 miles north from Loudwater. At the last-named hamlet … Head.' 193 In 1587 it belonged to Robert Ranner. 194 The 'Green Dragon,' which has disappeared, was held in 1605 by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… widened between the church and manor-house into the town green, of c. 4 a. in 1777. 27 Another smaller green lay close to the southern manor-house. On it there … permanent common pasture was the 12 a. of St. Margaret's Green, so named by 1590, north-east of the village, where a …