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A History of the County of Worcester
… Sheldesleye Beauchaump (xiv cent.); Shellesley Bewchampe or Great Shellesley (xvii cent.). This parish lies on the … 17th century, and a square 18th-century two-storied brick house. At Stanford Bridge, 3 miles north-east of the church, … Farm, about half a mile north of the church, is a brick house of two stories with an attic, built during the early …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (xv cent.); Sheldesley Walsh, Shellesley Gildon, or Gyldon (xvi cent.); Shelsley, Sheldesley Welch, Little … a little to the west of the Stanford road. The Court House, now the residence of Mr. William Walker, formerly the … west of the church. It is a half-timber and brick house, probably of the late 16th century, with 18th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… passes through the parish, but lanes connect Shelswell House and Home Farm with Newton Purcell, Hethe, and … the site of the medieval village: the earliest form of the place-name suggests that it meant the spring or stream of Scield, the personal name of some Saxon settler. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Mrs. Whitehead, the present lady of the manor. The actual house is only part of the west wing of a large rectangular … as highly as 2 s. 4 d. an acre. 28 Malory of Shelton. Or a lion with a forked tail in a border gules. Ralph … and the lengthening of the north arcade probably took place at this time. The south arcade is curious; it appears …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… and sixty Acres of Meadow, two Acres and one Virg. of Wood or Pasture. In King Edward the Confessors Time this was … as seven Bov. . The Land two Car. There Robert the Man (or Tenant) of Roger had one Car. six Vill. two Board. having … the Prosterity of that Robert, had their Name from this Place: however it is certain that a Family of that Name here …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was transferred to Oxfordshire. 2 The origin of the place-name is uncertain. Its earliest form was Shenedon and … surrounding open fields. The water-mill and the miller's house lay on Shenington Brook in the southeast corner of the … were assessed on 6 hearths, 1 on 5 hearths, and 7 on 3 or 4 hearths. Thirty-two were assessed on 2 hearths or less. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Grange, the residence of Mr. John Charrington, Wilton House, the residence of Mr. George Lionel Dashwood, J.P., and … through the northern portion of the parish. There are two or three cross roads connecting these main roads, and others … Mortimer and later Charles Brandon, afterwards duke of Suffolk; Lucy the wife of Sir Thomas FitzWilliam and secondly …
A History of the County of Hertford
… are largely poor except the vicarage, which is an old farm-house of red brick, with a good wing added some fifty years … at that time it is mentioned as being totally decayed. 2 Place-names occurring in old deeds are Stapelfordfield, … time of King Edward the Confessor, and he could not sell or alienate it from that church. 5 Shortly after the Survey …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and is bounded on the north-west by the river Cam or Rhee. Other boundaries follow the course of several … road. Shepreth meant the brook of the sheep, or the place where sheep may be washed, 8 and was a convenient … estate in the early 19th century. 10 At the former mill house (no. 8 Fowlmere Road), however, the survival of what is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… access to the eastern side of Church Street. The manor-house stood isolated to the south-west. More scattered … Most of the houses in the centre of the village were built or reconstructed in the 19th century, and are of stone with … century. The parish was described in 1868 as a 'curious place, much over-populated, nearly a person to every acre'. …