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A History of the County of Buckingham
… 5 and the Town Meadow are mentioned in the 17th century. 6 MANOR Before the Conquest CUBLINGTON was held of Edward the … the barons against Henry III and therefore forfeited the manor. 17 It had been restored to him by 1276, when he … 21 Desire Lucy died some time after 1323, 22 when the manor passed to her son Geoffrey, who held it until his death …
A History of the County of Sussex
… where five roads meet. One of these leads south to Legh Manor. Hanlye Lane turns east from the main street before it … north. The building, which has beams like those at Legh Manor, Old Beech Farm, &c., is of the second half of the 16th … Farm, both of which have 17th-century chimney-stacks. Legh Manor 9 stands about 1 miles south-west of the parish church. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the deserted hamlet of Old Wheatley, and the detached 'manor' of the Vent. The earliest reliable estimate of the … is mention of a gate in 1593. 17 In 1638 the lord of the manor made 60 acres of the wood into a warren, and by 1667 it … off the main road. The vicarage lies to the north and Manor Farm (see below) to the south. Opposite Manor Farm is …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of Cuddington; Henry VIII pulled down the church, the old manor-house, and the village, to make Nonsuch Palace. 1 It … but no map older than the time of Henry VIII exists. The Manor Farm is on the chalk and the Thanet sand, and may show the neighbourhood of the old manor-house. The South Western Railway line from Wimbledon to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… settlement is also visible east of the church and former manor-house. The main roads in the parish form an H-shaped … church, the former prebendal house, and the site of the manor-house, together with West Farm, a dairy house, and … of complicity in Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. 19 MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of CUDWORTH was held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… west end of the village green and just south of it is the manor-house. The village was rebuilt in 186970 49 and … and 1694. 50 The oldest building in the village is Culham Manor, which was originally the medieval grange of the Abbots … Bisshopp) and the date 1685. 55 When in the 1660's the manor passed from the Bury family to the Bisshopps the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… after it ceased to be the residence of the lords of the manor the ghost of the lady was said to haunt the place, and … Wood and Cumnor Grove were granted to George Owen with the manor, 20 but the woods in Wytham parish were granted to Sir John afterwards Lord Williams, lord of the manor of Wytham, and the boundary between the two was quite …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… in the 16th and 17th centuries as an appurtenance of the manor. 3 The village lies near the banks of the Swale. It … its berewicks of Norton and Leckby it formed an important 'manor' of 21 carucates, which had been held by Wallef. In … and 'Caldwelle' in Marton-on-the-Moor, 8 was soke of the manor. Cundall, with other lands of the Count of Mortain, 9 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… succeeded by his son John, who was in possession of the manor in 1524. 35 This John de Arderne is the hero of an … John de Arderne, who held Curdworth of the king as of his manor of Sutton Coldfield, died in 1526, leaving as his heir … in 15445, and ten years later Thomas Ardern settled the manor on his grandson Edward and his wife Mary, possibly on …
Magna Britannia
… Crown till the year 1228, when King Henry III. gave the manor of Dalston to Walter Bishop of Carlisle, and his successors in the see 4. Michael Hercla claimed this manor against the Bishop in a writ of right in the reign of … but without success. King Henry's charter disforests the manor, and gives the Bishop and his successors authority to …