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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… city, in 738. This estate was afterwards wrested from the church of Rochester during the troublesome times of the … in 1076, and afterwards restored it, with its church, to Gundulph, bishop of Rochester, and the church of St. Andrew, 1 which gift was confirmed by …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 17th-century half-timber cottages and farm-houses. The church stands about 6 miles south-east of Tenbury. Opposite it on the east is the Church House Farm, a picturesque halftimber and stone … stories with dormers and a tiled roof. Stoke Bliss: The Church House Farm Banwalls, about three-quarters of a mile …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wife, and Stephen his Son and Heir, gave to God and the Church of St. Peter, at Thurgarton two Selions, or Leyes, by … in Stoke, Thorpe, and Eyleston, and the Advowson of the Church of Elyeston, on himself for Life; then to John his … de Mydylton, Raph de Staunton, John Bozon, Vicar of the Church of Stoke, Hugh Bozen Parson of the Church of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… a carved cornice. In a field opposite the rectory is the church of St. Michael, and in the meadow called 'Pretty Meadow' north-west of the church, the sixteenth-century manor house originally stood. … the original manor house, lies in the meadows east of the church. Stoke Farm lies well away from the village on the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… northwest of Letherhead and a mile and a half east of Church Cobham. The Mole separates the parish from the … is in the alluvium of the Mole valley, and the village, church, and manor-house are on gravel near the river. The … Stoke D'Abernon, opened in 1885. The neighbourhood of the church was presumably occupied by some Roman building, many …
A History of the County of Northampton
… rising in Lilford Wood and running into the Nene. The church stands on the east side of the road. A little distance … north wing is dated 1731. The old manor house south of the church was pulled down about 1870 and a farm house erected on … sister of Henry Doyley. John Knightley presented to the church in 1369 and 1390. 27 A settlement of Stoke Doyle was …
A History of the County of Rutland
… of a ridge with a fringe of trees on its south side. The church is on the east side of the village street, with the … about 1871, behind some farm buildings south-east of the church, what appears to have been part of the stabling, or … mother, his father's brother George Digby of Standon (co. Staffs), Eliab Harvey, who was guardian of the late …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the road ran between his house and the east end of Stoke Church, and passed the river by a ford with a long narrow … in flood time. He diverted the road to the west end of the church, where it now is, and built Stoke Bridge of brick. On … writer, was a native of Stoke, and has a monument in the church. Stoke Church Institute in the Foxenden Road was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… shows that most of the village of Stoke lay north of the church on what once may have been an open green. 18 In 1881 … still standing there, with the public house to the south; Church Farm, the smithy, the post office, and the school, … 1858 at the expense of Sir Henry Peyton, lay south of the church. 19 Much of the village had already been rebuilt in …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Field, the 18 June 1643. And he rests in Great Hampden Church.' The main part of the parish is very flat, the land … from south-west to north-east and flows close to the old church on the east side, serving the ditches of a rectangular inclosure near to the church and extending round the churchyard. There are moats at …