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A History of the County of Somerset
… houses, 10 people) to Nettlecombe in 1883, and Timwood (1 house, 10 people) to Old Cleeve in 1886. 4 After those … of an open field. A fourth round barrow, known as Bloody or Bleary Pate, near the parish boundary south-east of Rydon, … houses. Doniford, which included cottages called Stoates Place in 1851, 61 had a summer camp site for the Territorials …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… on the high road to Fyfield. A farm called the Manor House is on the Fyfield road, the site of the ancient building known as Calcott's Place, which existed here at least as early as 1422. During … to undertake to plant a certain number of trees, oak, ash, or elm, every year, for the manor had lost all its trees …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… stood on what is known as Swampton Green. The Week, Wick or Wyke tithing is in the west of the parish and contains the … north-west from Swampton is the hamlet of Stoke with Stoke House, the residence of Mrs. Addison. Great Wallop Hill Down, … impression of Binley: 'I never saw any inhabited place more recluse, yet into there the all-searching eye of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Haseley and Cuxham Brooks. 7 Since the 12th century the place has been called 'Stodham' or 'Stadham', which may mean 'river meadow where horses are … divine and friend of the Doyleys, had the next largest house. When he was ejected in 1659 from the deanery of Christ …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of the church, marks the site of Dylywyk Manor, now a farm-house; Bury End, still further north, formerly a farm but now … to the Crown, and are to be found later as GEMYS, JEMPSIS or STANFORD MANOR, the only manor in this parish held of the … year, 60 when a partition of all his property took place between his sisters and co-heirs Elizabeth wife of …
A History of the County of Durham
… of 'Halyelande upon Southill,' where John de la Hay sold a house in 1356. 2 A small school in Stainton was kept in the … received Stainton from her father in free marriage. 12 In or about 1267 Agnes, then a widow, granted the manor to her … was a chapel of ease which had no lands except the place on the lord's waste where it stood. 107 There is, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… was finished in 1771 4 and connected it with Stockton. The place became important in the first half of the 19th century. … in the 16th and 17th centuries. 15 It is now a farm-house. The village of Stainton is built on rising ground … Thornton. 31 The history of the sub-tenancy of the manor or manors of Stainton and Thornton is almost as fragmentary …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… soil of it. THE PARISH is an unfrequented and obscure place, situated in a wild and dreary country, near the summit … armour is thus described, Party, per chevron embattled, or, and azure, three eagles counterchanged. In the 20th year … reserved rent under him. The parsonage consists of a house, buildings, yard, and small orchard, ninety-four acres …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Standon STANDON Standone (xi cent.); Staundon, Stondon, or Staunden (xiii cent. and later). Standon is a large, … is an argument in favour of the lords of Clare having a house there in the 13th and 14th centuries at which they … Ralph Sadleir's house, a cell to the priory of Clare in Suffolk. 29 He evidently refers to Standon Friars, but …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… built on this road, in which there is a neat modern-built house, belonging to Mr. Jones, who lives in it; the church … time, it should seem to have been built before his reign, or perhaps even belonging to him. Which seems the more … likewise at Westenhanger, (for by both these names this place was yet at times differently called) and was in 1628 …