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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Farm to Preston Copse, is the old vicarage, now a private house, north of which is the graveyard and the remains of the … vicarage standing in good grounds. Beyond the schools two or three thatched cottages lie east and west of the road, and … being built in the middle of the village to take its place. It had no aisles, but on the north side an …
A History of the County of Northampton
… a fire in 1872 was rebuilt. 1 The greater part of the house was pulled down in 1933 and the remainder refashioned. … Sable a hart's head caboshed argent with a cross formy or between the horns. Walter fitz Winemar who held both fees … the 18th century Sir Baldwin Wake had here an estate and house built by his father Sir William when he left …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to avoid flooding and help drainage, in the early or mid-18th century. 6 The soil is loamy, overlying Lias … century the lords of the manor have made their home in the house in the park, which has been the centre of an estate … there were 6 taxpayers in Alscot, 28 but by 1534 the whole place was in a single occupation, and there was apparently …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… light and chalky, and in the lowlands either loam or strong clay. The parish lies on the north-western slope of … the three main streets, where the square, red-brick market-house stands, with open arcades and a covered walk on its … From information supplied by Mr. W. J. Grubbe, Southwold, Suffolk. Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 6 Geo. III. Ibid. Trin. 53 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… earliest records of Priors Dean, are in the parish. Other place-names found in local records are Heryngesdeene alias …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the local yellow stone, several with thatched roofs. One house, about 200 yds. south of the church, has a 17th-century … Spencer and others, 9 but apparently this was a mortgage or settlement, as he died seised thereof in 1566, and his son … New roofs were also provided and a vestry built in place of a north porch. There have been other repairs during …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of local stone, a number retaining their thatched roofs or stone tiles, but a few have ugly corrugated iron roofs. A … an arched and square-headed doorway. Inside is a wide fire-place, a moulded ceiling beam, &c. A thatched house at the north entrance to the churchyard, of T-shaped …
A History of the County of Bedford
… 39 Briers Crofts' husband, Sir John Crofts of Westow, Suffolk, united with Arabella Briers in 1660 to convey the … fessewise indented azure and argent with a leopard or in the quarter. The manor of BEECHES or UPBURY, which … in Upbury Moat, which marks the site where the manor-house formerly stood. Another estate in Pulloxhill, which …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Wallingford to Reading runs along its southern border. The house, a large modern building of Portland stone in the … windows inserted to some of the first floor rooms in the place of the original mullioned windows. The date 1719 on the rain-water head in the centre of the south or garden front probably gives the date of these alterations. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… a height of about 260 ft. above the ordnance datum. Pusey House, which was built in 1753 from the designs of John Wood, … in the churchyard to Richard Pusey alias Peasey, Pescod or Pecote, who, 'having in his lyfetime received whole … 1395 Philip Mansell of Gloucester was seised of Mansell's Place in Pusey. 42 Thomas Mansell owned property in the …