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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Lopshill Common in the south, was inclosed in 181718. 3 Place-names which occur in connexion with South Damerham … Glastonbury Abbey. Vert a cross paty between four crowns or and a quarter argent with our Lady and the Child in their … Azure our Lady and the Child or. In 1830 the manor-house of South Damerham (West Park House) was attacked by the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… between the Thames and the Hinksey Stream. The vicarage house of New Hinksey was erected in 1888 on a site given by … of the latter's estates between his two daughters took place 16 South Hinksey fell to the younger, Margery wife of … the yearly sum of 6 s. 8 d., which is given to a poor boy or to a poor widow with children. In 1877 Charlotte …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… which leads eastward to the farm which was once the manor-house. At the junction is the village green, where stands the … in 1887. North of the village is Quarry Wood. Nevison House, a large farm, standing just outside the park on the … Viscount Irvine. Ermine a fesse gules with three scallops or thereon. The manor was transferred to the Scropes with …
A History of the County of Rutland
… In the latter year he was elected Master of Balliol. Place-names occurring in the records are Ashclose, Todley … The rent charge issuing out of a field near the Half Way House is paid by the Rutland Brewery Company and is … left an acre of land on the Morcott Road opposite Half Way House to provide a fee to the sexton to ring the bells at 5 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… John. In the eastern part, at the approach to the manor-house of Sanderville, is an elm under which were the stocks, … now a farm-house, which appears to date from the late 15th or early 16th century. It has a central hall and two wings, … Nicolas, Test. Vetusta, i, 446. In 1476 Alice Duchess of Suffolk bequeathed land in South Moreton to her son John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… therefore have been in the Hide, on the line of the Baulk or the Portway. In 1794 the ford where the Baulk crossed the … bell) and the lane called the Slibber (? a slippery place). 33 The village centre comprises a rectangle of … building with gabled attics, originally an L-shaped house on the three-unit plan; 40 there is a single-storeyed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 5 In the south-east extension there may have been, or it may have been intended to plant, a settlement beside … beside the WiltonWarminster road. The church, vicarage house, and demesne farmstead formed a group on the east side … autumn, and presentments were made by the homage of each place. Most business concerned transfers of copyholds, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… with alterations and additions, date from the 16th or 17th century. 12 Of these the most impressive is Little … additions. Streets Farm, on West Road, is a 17th-century house with an early-19th-century service wing, and Quince … William Brandon, she was the mother of Charles, duke of Suffolk (d. 1545). Cal. Pat. 147685, 358, 419, 524, 530; C 60 …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… short distance to the south is an early 18th-century farm-house of the same material, having the initials a. w. in … of crescents argent. Bishopric of Durham. Azure a cross or between four lions argent. The second moiety was probably … 18 It is always closely associated with the latter place, and followed for the most part the same descent. Both …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and the possible importance of Fouts cross as a meeting-place or market site may also account for some irregularity in the … 16 Little Lopen occurs by 1232 and by 1386 there was a house there called the 'chapel', 17 though the position of …