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A History of the County of Buckingham
… hundred, later to become part of Cottesloe Hundred. Erlai House, a large moated mansion, formerly stood here, but was … 2 The remains of another old house, called Pitstone Place, are now part of the Church Farm, 3 while a third, … a nearly semicircular island. 5 The hamlet of Frithsden or Friesden, now in Great Berkhampstead parish, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… &c. Near the latter, at Newland green, is a good house, the property and residence of Mr. Richard Ashbye. … By which it appears that the archbishop then held this place in demesne, that is, in his own possession; but … of it in the reign of king John, and bore for his arms, Or, a fleur de lis, sable; after which, from three coheirs of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The chief crops are wheat, oats, and mangolds. Plumpton Place lies to the east of the church and the County … porch, leading to his modern bridge over the moat. The house and rose-garden occupy a square inclosure surrounded by … made under Sir Edwin Lutyens. The windows are all Georgian or modern. The north front includes some original timber …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… The Land (was then esteemed sufficient for three Ploughs, or) three Carucats. It afterwards was the Fee of Roger de … Cauord. Plumptre hath been esteemed a kind of Wapentake, or Hundred, and belonging to Donington Castle, as the Earl of … united in the Possession of Sir Godfrey Copley of that Place, who inherited them from Chetilbert, who, I suppose, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… stands the village of Plumsted, having the Plumsted park-house nearly in the center of it, and the court-lodge, … the eastward, and a little farther the hamlet of Bostall, or Boston, as it is frequently called, and the heath of the … Sir William Greene, bart. of the corps of engineers. SUFFOLK-PLACE FARM is an estate, situated in the hamlet of …
Magna Britannia
… PLYMPTON ST. MAURICE, commonly called Plympton Maurice, or Plympton Earls, a market and borough town, in the hundred … the perpetual curacy. In the year 1715 there was a meeting-house of the Presbyterians at Plympton: the congregation are … Cobham, and Bonville. After the attainder of the Duke of Suffolk, it was purchased by Mayhew. The old mansion at …
A History of the County of Somerset
… The ancient parish of Podimore Milton, known as Middleton or Milton Abbatis from its ownership by Glastonbury abbey 1 … a tollhouse near the junction with the Fosse Way. 13 The house was sold to John Wingfield Digby in 1881 when the trust … fell vacant the house would be sold but this did not take place until c. 1944. 189 Church Life A wax rent was paid to …
A History of the County of Bedford
… towards the north-east of the parish. Beyond the manor-house, on the north side of the village, is Podington Church, … crocketed ogee-panelled head; in the east wall are one or two other fragments of Gothic masonry. These are said, on … impropriator and vicar in lieu of tithes. 5 The following place-names have been found in documents relating to this …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and the rectory, Polebrook Hall, the school and Manor House on its south. The main road continues in a southerly … site of a chapel, possibly that of St. John Baptist. In or before 1791 there remained in a building here four large … 9 Armston was finally inclosed by an Act of 1807. 10 Among place names which occur are Le Lynchfurlong, Cookesgreene, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as a foot-path to Bramcote Hall, a mid18th-century house of red brick with curvilinear halfgables. A second road … Trinity) built of stone in the Early English style. Two or three cottages here show timber-framing of the 17th … the manor-house was re-used in it. This includes a fire-place, 7 ft. wide, of much perished grey-white stone with a …