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A History of the County of Surrey
… part of the Greensand. Half the parish is open common or wood. The old Common Fields, finally inclosed in 1803, lay … by the old Common Fields, is traditionally called the Pest House. It is usually known now as Cyder House Cottage. In the … in 1599 by John Austen, 72 who built Shalford House on a place called the Timber Yard, on the rectory manor, 160810. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… manor at present belongs to his widow. 12 The old manor-house was restored and enlarged by Mr. White-Popham in 1883. … Argent a chief gules with two harts' heads caboshed or therein. CHURCHES The church of ST. JOHN BAPTIST, 13 or the 'old church,' as it is called, stands at the southern …
A History of the County of Bedford
… down about 1910, stood about 180 yds. from the present new house. It was built of stone with a thatched roof, and was an … There are two Baptist chapels in Sharnbrook. The following place-names have been found in documents connected with this … Lorraine, whose lands subsequently became known as LORINGS or PIPINGS MANOR. In 1086 Albert of Lorraine, who had been …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of Newbury. The church is situated in the grounds of Shaw House, a little to the west of the village of Shaw and … the middle of either face of the main block. On the north or back face the porch has been absorbed in a modern open … married to her third husband William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk. He was created Duke of Suffolk in 1448 and executed …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… not reckoned a very pleasant one, either as to situation or soil. It lies close on the north side of the high Dover … parts. Westward from the church is Butter-street, and the Place-house, and about as far southward from thence, the hamlet of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and 1,969 in 1971. 9 Mesolithic flints and late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age pottery have been found in the southwest. … bridge to Matching. The line of Lower Road, by Durrington House, was slightly altered in the mid 18th century. 24 In … and during that period two widows served, apparently in place of their husbands. The vestry usually appointed two …
A History of the County of Warwick
… timber-framed barn by the road-side. Another farm-house, about mile north-east of it, has some 17th-century … two pairs of diagonal shafts, two with diagonal pilasters (or star-shaped in plan). In this the lower hall has a 9 … 54 He died in 1530 55 and his son and heir Henry, Duke of Suffolk, was attainted and beheaded in 1554. 56 In 1559 Queen …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… next to Badlesmere, on the Ashford road, is the manor house of Lords, which has been modernized and made a neat … in this parish, to which the reader is referred. THIS PLACE was given by the name of Schyldwic, in 784 by Alcmund, … Kent, to Wetrede, abbot, and the convent of Raculf Cestre, or Reculver, as twelve plough-lands, with all its …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Shelford SHELFORD. Doomsday, Scelford. There was in this Place of Roger de Buslie's Fee, Soc to Bingham, as much as … by Raph Haunselin; and indeed Bardolf's Moiety, of all or most of their Churches, 6 was appropriated to this Priory … 29th Year of his Reign, by his Letters Patent, granted the House and Scite of the Priory and Alms-houses, &c. within it, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… those on the front. The rectory is a gabled Elizabethan house with stone-mullioned windows, facing west. The interior … circular Doric columns, but two of these are now covered or obscured. A similar feature occurs at the first-floor … Little Newbury are mentioned as early as 1539. 5 Among place-names found in local records may be mentioned …