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A History of the County of Northampton
… containing ten houses dispersed in the grounds and a wood called Preston park adjoined Salcey forest in the south. … in 1274 holding the manor of Preston including a foreign wood called 'Arnho' through which he had common and pannage …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… brick-built with mullioned and transomed window-frames of wood. A timber-framed cottage perhaps of the 16th century is …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 1,276 acres laid down in permanent grass, and 40 acres of wood. The subsoil is chalk, 2 but the surface soil is … 75 Earl Walter Giffard and Countess Ermengarde granted a wood called Lullested in Princes Risborough to the abbey of … called the Abbots' hold.' By Walter Giffard's grant the wood was held by the abbey in frankalmoign, 92 and the Bishop …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… House, which was built in 1753 from the designs of John Wood, architect, of Bath, is the property of Mr. Philip …
A History of the County of Surrey
… favourite, the Earl of Essex, and it is said that the wood which wainscoted the various rooms was taken from one of … 69 It afterwards came into the possession of Robert Wood, the writer and traveller, who was buried at Putney. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… on his wife Timothea in April 1621. 45 He also held the wood called Prior's Wood in Puttenham and Compton. His son Richard entered upon …