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A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Quarr were permitted to grind their corn in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. The Grange Farm in the south of the parish is an old house of some interest. There are 506 acres of arable land, … and is explained by the fact that Rowner was a favourite place for marriages among the naval men from Gosport and …
A History of the County of Bedford
… also a fine Congregational chapel built in 1822. Roxton House, standing in a park, is an 18th-century brick building … when John Lord Mordaunt transferred it to Gideon de Lanie or Laune, 21 a French apothecary, who held the appointment of … 47; and forty years later a further transfer had taken place to John Corner of Norfolk and Anora his wife, who in …
A History of the County of Essex
… boundary, and flows north to the Stort as the Meeting or Chapel brook. 5 One of a network of small watercourses … pattern of settlement before 1777. By then a gentleman's house, Mount Pleasant (later Fedsden), had been built in … was a bridge over the old Lea, built in the 1830s in place of a deep ford. 33 A brick bridge over the new Lea, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Crux Roys, 1 Crux Roaesie, Rhosiae, Roais, Roeis, Roheise or Roihes (xii cent.); Crux Roesia or Roys (xiii cent.) 2; … name to the 'Royston Crow.' 5 It was a favourite hunting-place of James I, 6 was the site of the Royston races 7 and … up in the myddest of Icknell Streate . . . a fayer House or Crosse . . . for a clockhowse and a Pryson Howse.' …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… as to be but little known, it is a dreary unpleasant place, the roads are very narrow and miry, as bad as any in … Marsh, which lies at the foot of it southward. The upper or northern side of it is mostly coppice wood. It contains … of it is at this time vested. The MANOR OF BARDINDEN, or Barbodindenne, was likewise most probably situated in this …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… of the Domesday Survey, 2 but the name Hutton-next-Rudby, or Hutton Rudby, which it has borne since the 13th century, … the south-west is known as Enterpen, a name which has no place in the records of the village, and is commemorated only … Rudby, founded by Charles Bathurst in 1740. 9 It was to a house in this parish that Mary Ward, foundress of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… stands a little to the east of this road. The old manor-house of Northbury Farm is now converted into two cottages. … 15 who also purchased other property in the parish. Garth. Or two lions passant between three crosslets fitchy sable. … but that the windows were broken. 24 Apparently the place was left to its fate, since in a report on the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Plain. There its boundaries are sometimes marked by ridges or dry valleys but for the most part follow straight rather … from Wood Bridge through Rushall parish to Upavon market-place. Under an Act of 1762 the road from Chirton to … to have greatly enlarged, or perhaps replaced, the manor-house and to have imparked the land around it. By 1803 the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Church End is a plastered timber building of the 16th or 17th century, formerly used as a post office. It has a … son and heir of Christopher Mole, late of the East India House, deceased, 61 third son of Dorothy Mole. 62 In this … living to his own nominee. In 1272 a similar dispute took place between the prior and Peter Basset, who presented his …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the boot-making industry. The present rectory-house appears to have been built about 1870, and cannot … and has a good four-centred arched fireplace. The east, or terrace front has also projecting ends with curved gables … that Thomas Ekyns did keep more persons in his family, did place in the dwelling house of Thomas a chest'. The key of …