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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it had been 70 years earlier. 10 Apart from a few outlying farm-houses, established after inclosure, the settlement … 1217. 119 The benefice has since the 13th century been a rectory. 120 The advowson has belonged to the bishop of Ely … 12 marks, evidently all or nearly all of the income of the rectory, was said to be the portion of a vicar, who is not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… distant. The name Hardwick 5 means in Old English a sheep farm or perhaps a cattle farm, or dwellingplace for flocks … in 1665 there was only one house listed, besides the small Rectory and Richard Fermor's manor-house, for the hearth tax. 12 The Rectory had evidently gone by 1682, 13 when there is a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… on the brow of a hill. The old manor-house, now used as a farm, stands to the south-east of the church and is a … Hardwick House, built by the rector in 1868, when the old rectory was in ruins. The children attend school at Little … was valued at 6 13 s. 4 d. in 1291. 66 The profits of the rectory in 1535 were returned as 8 0 s. 9 d. yearly, of which …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… all of which have been much altered and added to. Manor Farm, to the north-west of the church, is probably of this … chimney stacks with diagonal shafts of thin bricks. The rectory is a 16th-century stone house, to which considerable … of F. Bucks. Mich. 15 Hen. VIII. In 1519 the chancel and rectory are said to have been ruinous (Visit. of Bp. Atwater …
A History of the County of Northampton
… end of the Higham Ferrers road. At its southern end is Top Farm, with the Grove to the west of it, and to the north the … lies the church, pleasantly situated among trees, with the rectory to the west of it. The rectory house is a late-16th-century building of coursed …
A History of the County of Bedford
… the Wingates resided in the 18th century, is Horsehill Farm, in a field belonging to which a hollow oak is shown, … Registers of 1310. 66 At the time of the Dissolution the rectory was held from Dunstable Priory by William Belfield on … Belfield was not renewed, 68 and the Crown retained both rectory and advowson 69 until 1578, when they were granted to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was apparently disused by the late 17th century when Manor Farm was built at the west end of the village, north of High … of it was called the Moat Orchard at inclosure. 28 The Old Rectory lies southeast of the church which is connected to … farm in the north of the parish comprising c. 161 a., and Rectory farm of c. 120 a. east of Manor farm and partly south …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in this church-yard. He has improved the value of this rectory very considerably. In 1781 he had a dispensation to hold this rectory with St. Mary le Strand. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… at 11. 59 In 1537 the site of the priory together with the rectory and advowson was granted on a twenty-one-year lease … Thomas Farrar, 65 and this property (exclusive of the rectory) formed part of the marriage settlement. 66 Some … as a farmhouse, was in the possession of Lady Lucas. 72 A farm of considerable extent (probably the above, though if so …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… between them. 3 Of 1,098 a. said to tithe to Harston rectory only 820 a. lay in fields several to Harston. 4 At … street running west towards the manor house, church, and rectory, which stood together near the river. Dwellings, … the limits of the ancient inclosures, except that Manor Farm was built near the Hoffer brook. The Cambridge road …