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A History of the County of Leicester
… just over 1 acre of land allotted for the repair of the church, the whole of the land went to the Manners family. … in the village. This can be seen from a comparison of the church-rate books for 1869, one of which was compiled before … civil parish. 78 Churches. There is no record of a church at Aylestone until the beginning of the 13th century, …
A History of the County of Leicester
… to Melton and Loughborough. The area around the parish church (St. Peter's) and along the Thurcaston road retains … of Leicester. Houses were concentrated around St. Peter's Church and along Bath Street, and there were a few out along … 1881 they were separate civil parishes. 138 Churches. The church of Belgrave with its tithes and eleven virgates was …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and from 1836 was in Blaby union for poor relief purposes. Church. In the 12th century Braunstone church was a chapel dependent on the parish church of Glenfield. The chapel is first mentioned in a …
A History of the County of Leicester
… stood on the moated site still visible to the west of the church, where there is also a well. 39 In 141213 payments … carried on in a small area to the north and east of the church and is clearly differentiated on the map. A few of the … not survived, 66 little is known of either peculiar or church. Sir John Lambe doubted the validity of the claim to …
A History of the County of Leicester
… to be known as Swan's Orchard, a little to the east of the church in Steins Lane. Excavation of this site was carried … Billesdon union under the new Poor Law. 48 Churches. No church is mentioned in Humberstone until the early 13th … 50 In 1329 the abbey received a licence to appropriate the church although this was not done until about 1351. 51 Before …
A History of the County of Leicester
… the whole of the parish is now a built-up area. Church. Ecclesiastically, Knighton was separated from the … Park Road, was formed from Knighton in 1917, 55 the church having been built as a chapel of ease in 1885. The architects were Goddard and Paget of Leicester and the church was built largely from a gift of 6,000 from Miss Sarah …
A History of the County of Leicester
… still extraparochial for ecclesiastical purposes; 184 the Church of England then possessed on the Stocking Farm estate … from Leicester Corporation, for the building of a church. A Methodist chapel was erected in Fosse Road North, … parish, in 1903. 185 The Baptist Archdeacon Lane Memorial church in Buckminster Road was built in 1936, in place of the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… the chief portion of the village clustering about the old church, now in ruins, where the roads fork, forming a small … hill are some brick cottages of little interest. The new church stands upon an outlying spur of the hill, about a quarter of a mile north-west of the old church. Abberley Hall, formerly Abberley Lodge, is in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… section of the Great Western railway. To the east of the church are the remains of a moat. Abberton Hall, the seat of … Whitsun Brook in the south of the parish. Old Cottages and Church Tower, Abberton CHURCH The church of St. Eadburgawas entirely rebuilt in …
A History of the County of Hertford
… side, but there are several new streets leading off. The church is at the eastern end of the village, where the road … trees at the edge of the churchyard. One mile north of the church is the hamlet of Bedmond, which is now a village in itself containing some 100 houses and an iron church built in 1880 by Mr. W. H. Solly of Serge Hill. It …