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A History of the County of Berkshire
… rising to a height of 300 ft. above the ordnance datum at Church Hill and 331 ft. at Ridge Farm, and sloping steeply … it was enlarged and renovated by the Rev. Henry Ellis St. John in 1835 had a moat and drawbridge. The house is of … some interesting portraits of the ancestors of the St. John family, including those of Lord and Lady …
A History of the County of Northampton
… The rectory house stands on the north-west of the church and is a well-designed building of two stories, faced … and a windmill are mentioned. 122 Church The church of ST. MARY-THEVIRGIN consists of chancel 51 ft. by 21 ft., … 142 In 1339, Edward III granted it to the Abbey of St. Michael at Antwerp, in consideration of the long …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Akebar, which now consists of three farms, stands the old church of St. Andrew among the fields near Leeming Beck. Fingall may … Odo 11 of 3 other carucates. Odo granted to the abbey of St. Mary, York, 1 carucate, 12 of which Abbot Clement …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… by steep hills covered with woodland. It consists of the church of St. Bartholomew at the north of the village, with ruins of … have been granted, together with the church and tithes, to St. Albans Abbey during the abbacy of Richard Daubeny …
A History of the County of Oxford
… straggles up the hill from the covered brook to the church. 14 Below the church, there is also a steep lane which … (17421815), successively Bishop of Chester, Bangor, and St. Asaph, and the saintly rector, W. J. Palmer (rector … charter of about 1200, which indicates that the canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, were keeping sheep on their land in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the manor had a grange with residential quarters. 19 The church, rectory-house, and manor-house stand close together … to George Fettiplace. Fettiplace's grandson John, of Coln St. Aldwyn (Glos.), sold it in 1650 to William Adlam who sold … to Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt. (later Earl St. Aldwyn, d. 1916). 59 Sir Michael sold it to the War …
A History of the County of Worcester
… In the open space between the Anchor Inn and the church a market is said to have been held in former times on … instead of passing with Stone to his sister Elizabeth St. John, passed with the baronetcy to his uncle Sir John … belonged to the chapel of Chadwick to the hospital of St. Wulfstan, Worcester, his grant being confirmed in 1232 by …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Watling Street, forms three sides of a square round the church, with the picturesque redbrick almshouses erected by … with its modern house built near the site of the Priory of St. Giles-in-the-Wood. It is tenanted by Mr. G. F. … rolls are Wydefeld, Nutmanfeld, Mathley, Orchard Hill, St. Giles Hill, les Twenty Acres and les Selfeldes. MANORS …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… have also been discovered about half a mile south of the church, while a little farther north the line of a buried … besides doing other works. They paid to the charity of St. Peter 4 sheep, 5 ells of cloth, 10 dishes, 200 loaves, … be set aside for the fair ground. 43 Church The church of ST. MARGARET consists of a chancel (28 ft. by 13 ft.), organ …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Sochm. four Vill. five Bord. having three Car. 1 There a Church and a Priest had half a Car. and (there was) sixty … Weeks, to a certain Chaplain celebrating in the Church of St. Augustine, of Flintham, for ever. 21 At the Assizes at … urns, and Roman coins. The church, which is dedicated to St. Augustin, has a square tower, with 4 bells, a nave, and …