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A History of the County of Warwick
… another arched doorway. The hall has a moulded north fire-place with four-centred arch, set in a chimney-stack that … The kitchen in the south-west wing has a plain wide fire-place. The hall has fine moulded ceiling-beams and exposed … In the west wall is a filled-in square-headed fire-place, perhaps original. Partly in the recess of the east …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… account continues: 'The water is the best feature of the place, very well coloured, half a mile long, 30 ft. wide. … from the present mansion, which is usually styled The Place House or Belmont. 1 It is a building of quite … in the parish in the eighteenth century. 4 The following place-names are found in the sixteenth century:'Hurst Down …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The church stands in the well-wooded park of Wasing Place, the residence of Mr. W. A. Mount, a plain modern … and over it is a blocked round-headed window which, in place of its keystone, has been fitted with a piece of a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… was built in the solar wing. This has a Tudor stone fire-place on the first floor and carries five diagonal shafts of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… locally as the old manorhouse. 5 It has a great stone fire-place. Farther west, at the corner of the road to the bridge, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Reformation he was receiving a modus of 1 6 s. 8 d. 307 in place it seems of part of the Thomley tithes. It seems … during the 18th century. In 1836 381 a dissenting meeting-place was licensed at Thomley, but had ceased to exist by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… settlement at Waterstock, but the name, meaning 'water place', indicates an AngloSaxon origin. In 1086 it was … to form West Field. 125 Further inclosure apparently took place between 1601 and 1609, for the later terrier was said … is clear that considerable inclosure of demesne land took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. An instance of this may …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… early 18th-century date, are built of red brick. Among the place-names found in connexion with the parish are Cokeshotte … abbot indiscreetly accepted. The combatants fought in a place appointed by the king, the knight bringing a multitude …
A History of the County of Oxford
… miles. 4 'Processioning' or beating the bounds still took place once every three years in the early 19th century, and … by being a market-town and consequently a more populous place. As its manor belonged to the honor of Wallingford it … called the commons 'the most remarkable privilege of this place'. 465 A survey of 1608 listed the commons belonging to …