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A History of the County of Gloucester
… ha.). 3 The eastern end of the ancient parish 4 was at a place called Hannington hill 5 on the StowGloucester road … for its several large houses. A park adjoining Sandywell house, in the north-east part of the parish, was enlarged, or newly made, by Henry Brett who rebuilt the house in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… a conspicuous object for some distance round. Dowles Manor House, situated off the main road about half a mile north of … which seems to have been the original private chamber or withdrawing room, is a wide fireplace, the head of which … 329 permanent grass and 121 woods and plantations. 2 Among place-names have been found Trinity Meadow, 3 Redeckes Croft, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… is nucleated, largely grouped along the curving main or East Dowlish street. 7 North of the Dowlish brook in some … on the scarp above the village are the church and manor-house, joined in the 19th century by Parke House, the road … in 1322, was ordered to find a curate to serve in his place, and was subsequently licensed to absent himself for …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The village is in the southern part of it; Petley's-place, situated within it, which though now only a farm-house, was formerly one of the seats of the antient family of … window of the chancel, above the pulpit, a shield, being or a bend ermine. In the first window, on the north side of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Hall. The remains still existing may be the cellars or storehouses. 10 There is a room measuring 20 ft. by 16 ft. … These probably formed a half-sunk basement to the house, for the walls extend above the vaulted roof, and there … by the family of Egglescliffe (called also 'de Barden,' a place adjoining Ellerton), 58 who may thus have been early …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were roughly the same. In places they followed natural or topographical features. The northern side of a ridge, the … 35 In 1894 the civil parish, formerly extra-parochial place, of Langley Wood, then in the same ownership as … William I visited Downton, 44 it is likely that a manor-house had been built on the riverside site later occupied by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to the north may have been among the lands of a hamlet or farmstead called Knabwell: the 81 a., Nabals farm, were … Long family who owned Draycot manor and lived in Draycot House. 20 The population rose from 141 in 1801 to 181 in … called in 1695, 90 was c. 1542 described as a 'fair manor place' and stood in a park. 91 The Long family lived in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with later alterations. The latter is a more pretentious house with a symmetrical brick front of the earlier 18th century; several windows have been blocked or altered, but the central doorway, flanked by columns and … In 1967 it was possible to detect, from air photographs, house-sites of the former village on either side of a short …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Tomkins (1845 and 1850). The Wesleyan chapel was built in or about 1870. The village contains a few half-timbered … and a 15th-century square to octagonal base. Drayton Manor House which is now unoccupied lies on the south side of the … Subscription Poor's Houses.In 1780 an extensive fire took place in the village, and a subscription was raised for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gate if it was fixed at Drayton Town's End: as his house stood near the road, it could be used and would save … there were also 6 small farm-houses, assessed at 1 or 2 hearths each and an unknown number of cottages. 19 The … there was no resident squire in the 18th century, his place was taken in the second half of the century by the …