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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the two words, langeand dune, signifying the long down or hill, this parish being frequently written in antient … since pulled down. It is at present occupied as a farm-house. THE MANOR OF PISING, together with the lands called … removed to Dover. Philipott certainly never saw this place to give it the name of Marshton, (though it is so …
A History of the County of Somerset
… west to the Foss Way. Lydford Lane, known as Cross Keys or West Field Drove in 1838, 9 runs south from Cross Keys to … banks of the Cary south of Rubbery Farm suggest a watering place for oxen and a droveway north over lands belonging to … on the north side of the road in 1711, 18 and a rectory house was erected to the west of them soon after 1872. 19 Two …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… liberty of the corporation of Maidstone claims over this place. There once belonged a chapel to this district, called … of East Malling, at the north end of which is a handsome house, the property of Sir John Twisden, the church, and … of the Bretts, in Somersetshire, who bore for his arms, Or, a lion rampant, guies, within an orle of cross-croslets …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… building of more pretensions. Especially notable is a fine house on the north side, with heavy cornice and moulded brick … 2 The common lands were inclosed in 1860. 3 The following place-names are found in East Meon in the sixteenth century: … and lands called Bevermon, Fernhills, and Shillingworth or Shillingore in the tithing of Bordean. The following …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… PECKHAM. SOUTHWARD from Mereworth lies the parish of East or Great Peckham, written in Domesday, PECHEHAM, and in the … of Thomas, second son of Thomas Roydon, of Roydon-hall, in Suffolk, where this family had been seated many generations, … called Keamehatches; that there were to the parsonage house two gardens, one orchard, two yards, three barns, one …
A History of the County of Somerset
… undulating coastal strip, and then up the scarp by ridge or combe to the top of the Quantocks, forming a wedge-shaped … of stones above Short Combe was then described as 'the place of parley' about an encroachment made by the lord of … largely on a single street leading south from the manor house and the church, with a westward extension along what …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Parishes East Shefford or Little Shefford EAST SHEFFORD or LITTLE SHEFFORD Siford … and the few cottages lie near the river between the manor-house and the church, while a farm-house and some cottages … settlement of Hill Mussenden Leathes of Herringfleet Hall, Suffolk, and Mary Louisa his wife, and died a pauper lunatic, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Park estate, and over which glimpses can be caught of the house and grounds, and the low hedges which encircle the … another a virgate, and a third 1 virgates. 3 The grange or manor-house was leased with the demesne lands from time to … The church of ALL SAINTS was begun in 1873 to take the place of the old church in the park, now removed, by the earl …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… IT is a small parish, and would be but little known or frequented was it not for the residence of the Filmer … ash and oak, and has a fine piece of water in sight of the house in the lower part of it; about half a mile south-east … and coheir of Sir William Beversham, of Holbrookhall, in Suffolk, one of the masters in chancery, 4 by whom he had …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… meagre village pond. On the north side of the road are two or three old cottages and several modern ones which have … about 300 acres, and in it on high ground stands the manor house on the original site. Surrounding the park, especially … sable a saltire countercoloured. It is thought that Old Place Farm may have been the old manor house of East Tisted, …