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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish 7 m. W.S.W. of Ross. The church and Pembridge Castle are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical (1). … under edge, medival. ConditionGood. Secular (2). Pembridge Castle (Plate 200), house and moat stand in the N.W. corner … The walls are of local sandstone rubble and ashlar. The castle occupies a roughly rectangular site surrounded by a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… riding of York; containing, with the chapelries of Bolton-Castle and Redmire, and the townships of Leyburn and … of St. Agatha, near Richmond. The chapelries of Bolton-Castle and Redmire form a separate incumbency, in the … S. division of Salop, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Bishop's-Castle, on the road to Shrewsbury; containing 715 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… early 17th-century. ConditionGood. Secular c(2). Weobley Castle (Plan, p. 198), earthworks, at the S. end of the town, … on the early plan seem to indicate that the former masonry castle was of the 13th century, but of this there are no remains above ground. The castle belonged to the family of Lacy in the early Middle …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the south side of the town are the remains of an ancient castle which was taken by Stephen in the war between him and …
A History of the County of Essex
… One son had joined him by 1872 and other sons ran the Castle Brewery in Colchester and the Donyland Brewery in …
Old and New London
… and which belonged to John Winckley, executed at Lancaster Castle with the Earl of Derwentwater, after the rising of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Botetourt. 32 The overlordship then descended with Weoley Castle in Northfield (Worcs.) until at least 1560, when it … C 142/ 114/28; below p. 16. For the descent of Weoley Castle see V.C.H. Worcs. iii. 194-6. V.C.H. Staffs. iii. 216. … Mountfort. Mountfort has no apparent connexion with Weoley Castle (then belonging to Wm. Berkeley), to whose owners the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… below p. 279 and references there cited. N.R.A., Chilham Castle, Kent, Massereene (Staffs.) deeds, 29. S.H.C. xv. 149. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Heath near what is now Oak Lane during the siege of Dudley castle in 1644. 92 By the later 18th century there was some …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… This point was the obvious site for the erection of the castle; while the whole peninsula formed a natural fortress, … the modern Exchange Flags forming the centre from which Castle Street struck off to the south, Oldhall Street to the … the Wallfield, the Milnefield, the Sheriffacres, the Castle field, the Whiteacres, the Wetearth. 6 Some of these …