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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… will dated 1692 Matthew Wilkes endowed some alms-houses in Leighton Buzzard (Beds.) with an estate of just over 50 a. in Longstowe. 112 The property, often simply known as 'Leighton Buzzard', 113 comprised by 1865 a farm and the … College was allotted 79 a., the charity estate 30 a., the Leighton Buzzard alms-houses 28 a., and the vicar of Bourn c. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… running powers over the Great Northern Company's line from Leighton Buzzard. The Great Northern Railway has a station, … whilst Camden, a generation or so later, says: 'As for Leighton Buzzard on the one side of Dunstable and Luton on … same chapel. The Friends' Monthly Meeting at Luton and Leighton.The official trustees hold a sum of 1,885 10 s. 1 d. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the erecter of the monument, and his first wife Anne Leighton; to the right are his six sisters with shields of … large canopied monument to himself and his two wives, Anne Leighton (d. 1628) and Margaret Whitmore, who did not die …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… at the east of the chancel by Frederick (Lord) Leighton of 'The Ten Virgins.' The tower is surmounted by a …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… pass through beautiful moorland scenery. High up here are Leighton, which consists of two farm-houses, and Pott Hall, … 139; it has since followed the descent of Masham (q.v.). LEIGHTON (Suthleghton, xiv cent.) was described as a member … said to have been chapels at High and Low Burton, Fearby, Leighton and probably at Aldburgh. 176 Charities By a scheme …
A History of the County of Bedford
… centre, on which the village is placed. The main road from Leighton Buzzard to Woburn crosses the parish and is …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 105 but this market was soon put down, as the Prior of Leighton (Grovebury) complained that it intercepted the usual attendants at the market at Leighton. 106 In 12789 the land of Snelshall Priory here …
A History of the County of Sussex
… died in 1727, 40 and from whom it passed to his eldest son Leighton Osborne, 41 who with his wife Elizabeth in 1741 …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… but was burnt down, and the record of a brief exists at Leighton Bromswold for the fire at Old Weston on 28 February … part of the village is built round a loop in the road from Leighton Bromswold, from which the village street runs west … purchased Old Weston. About the same time he purchased Leighton Bromswold, which had belonged to his first wife's …