Search
A History of the County of Surrey
… been found, possibly washed down from the higher ground or carried down the brook. The elevation of Putney parish is … shops and other business premises having taken the place of the old houses which once stood there. Two hotels … Roehampton, the site of which was afterwards occupied by a house at Roehampton Grove, 34 but it is doubtful whether a …
A History of the County of Hertford
… testify to the slow decrease in population which has taken place for many years past. Depression in agriculture has … many inhabitants away, and the tendency has been to repair or build dwellings only near the high road. There is a small … his claim in the estate. 30 Either this Richard Puttenham or his elder brother George was the author of a treatise …
A History of the County of Surrey
… a nine-hole golf course has been made on it, with a club-house opened in 1897. Puttenham Common, to the south-west, is … schools were built in 1850. MANORS There are four manors or reputed manors in Puttenham; Puttenham Bury and Puttenham … an old high hall the rafters of which are visible in one place in the wall of an upper room. There are no mills given …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 12, is of particular interest, being a fragment of a large house, possibly the manor-house, of midor late-16th-century date. Only one room remains … Manors The manor of PYECOMBE may have derived from one or both of the two manors of Pangdean held in 1086 by William …
A History of the County of Surrey
… line of the London and South Western Railway. The upper or western part of Pyrford is on the lower Bagshot Sand, the … Domesday Survey it is rated in Godley Hundred, the only place named in that hundred not held by Chertsey Abbey. … all sorts of fowle in season from his own decoy near his house and all sorts of fresh fish. After dinner we went to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century. 12 Pyrton's most ancient road, Knightsbridge Lane or 'Ruggeway' (Ridgeway), as it was called in the Middle … was its river traffic. Every sort of supply for the great house at Stonor, for instance, came by barge to Henley from … Middle Ages, probably as a result of plague in the first place and later of inclosure. 47 There are banks near the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… man under the church and churchyard, rough stone coffins, or kistvaens, and skeletons lying with faces to the east and … vicarage. 2 At the other end of the village is the Manor House, now occupied by Colonel C. H. Heycock, a principal … been built by the Washbournes, 3 and is probably the manor-house referred to by Lewis in 1849 as very dilapidated. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… here for some days, during which time he made this place a free borough, in honor of Philippa his queen, naming … saw in this castle at that time, a noble large dining-room or hall, round the top of which were placed the arms of the … number about one hundred and twenty, or more. The market house is a small antient brick building, in the middle of the …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Quethiock - Ruan Minor Quethiock, or Quithiock QUETHIOCK, or QUITHIOCK, (anciently Cruetheke,) … formerly a seat of the Chivertons, is now a farm-house. Holloughwood, or Holwood, formerly the seat of a … patron of the rectory. The barton of Rame, now called Rame-place, has passed through several hands, and is now the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of this land passed with the honor of Peverel to the house of Lancaster, and the fee itself was held by the family … chief landowners in Quinton. Dyve. Gules a fesse dancetty or between three scallops ermine. Sir John Dyve the grandson … of the transept. 39 The aisle is without buttresses or string-course, and the south doorway, as well as that of …