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A History of the County of Oxford
… mill used to be in the 19th century, to Little Stoke or Stoke Marmion, where at one time there was also a mill. 10 … marshy meadow bordering the river. The name Stoke means a place, and it was first called Bishopstoke, as it belonged to … oldest is Manor Farm on the site of Eynsham Abbey's manor-house ( manerium) that once stood next to the churchyard, 17 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… far as Winchester. The soil is sandy, with either a gravel or clay subsoil, and considerable crops of wheat, oats, and … south of Swaythling village, just beyond South Stoneham House, formerly the manor house, built in the early part of … the land is high, and owing to its healthy situation the place has become a suburb of Southampton. There are several …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… alias Southwargheburn (xiii cent.); Warneburn or Warnborne (xiv cent.); Warborne, Suthwarborne, … surrounded by a wooden seat, and the smithy. A plain low house, on the left hand as the road descends, in front of … his manor for a while to Richard Berton, 'parson of the place.' 14 His son Sir Roger, and after him Sir Walter, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… to form one large estate, centred on the newly built manor house of Weald Hall, which stood north of Weald Road, near … The Moat House hotel, London Road, was known as the Place in 1514, when it may have been connected with the manor … the late 18th century. Among other houses probably built or rebuilt in the 17th century are Frieze Hall, Coxtie Green …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Adwell, and Wheatfield. It had no natural boundaries or marked physical features, except for West Brook, the … lying on either side of the road to the Rectory, the manor-house on the Lewknor road and most of the cottages clustering … in 1856, 142 and little consolidation of holdings took place before it. Seventeenthcentury glebe terriers and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in the later document as 'Eldernestubbe'; the gemyoe, or stream-junction, figures as 'Myerbrygge' (now Myer … on the banks of the Stowe to nearly 300 ft. at the market-place, and then more gradually. The town developed round the … cases earlier buildings re-fronted. Except for the Manor House and the public house called 'The Old Mint', the oldest …
A History of the County of Sussex
… vicarage, which retains within it traces of a half-timber house of the end of the 16th century. The remains are of a house of three bays, two of which belonged to the hall and … was the usual outshot aisle. The mutilated three-centred or segmental door-heads from the two main rooms to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… name it acquired from its situation close to the fleet, or arm of the Thames, which now flows under Northfleet … small consequence. This PARISH is rather an unfrequented place, nor is it much known, there being no public … Hook-green, having Hook-place on it, now used as a farm-house, and the church and free school on the north-west side …
A History of the County of Bedford
… size; it consists mainly of substantial thatched or tiled cottages many bearing the initials of that Samuel … in the early part of the 19th century. 4 The following place-names have been found in documents relating to this … century; Cockinsteleland, Herteshyne, le Meredither, Doys House, Bryky Close, Duf Close, Great Hell Close, Ketilsey, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… is a homestead moat which probably marks the site of the house of the Lovetots which they made their chief home, where … moat, within which probably stood the house of Ferrers or Winchester Manor (q.v.). East of the church is the pound … 109 She was the daughter of Robert Garnes of Kenton, co. Suffolk, and after the death of her first husband married …