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A History of the County of York North Riding
… 1840.' It probably marks the bounds of one of the 'strays' or commons of the freemen of York. To the west of Sandburn … south end of the village, is a square red brick Georgian house. North of it is the school, and a Wesleyan chapel … or bushy plain, a plain among trees in a park or hunting place ( Kirkby's Inq. [Surt. Soc.], 582). Archbp. Giffard's …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the parish, on each side of which is a large marsh or swamp, overgrown with alders and willows, almost all of … any tithes of the convent's demesne here, the proctor, or some priest of the hospital being bound yearly to give a … in 1640 the like. Church Of Stodmarsh. PATRONS, MINISTERS. Or by whom presented. The Archdeacon. William Coleman. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… by the early 13th century, 2 implies ownership of a place named Stoke by a lord of whom no post-Conquest trace … a preConquest owner called Warver (perhaps Warner) or Gomer. The boundaries between Stogumber and its neighbours … south of the market place, with the medieval vicarage house on its west and the probable former capital messuage of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… A small part of it is within the hundred of Shamel. This place, as appears by the Textus Roffensis, was called … so that no one should enter on them, either to hunt, or to take any thing which belonged to warren, without their … of this church; that as he was, on account of his house being situated at such a distance from the parish …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Tenbury. Opposite it on the east is the Church House Farm, a picturesque halftimber and stone 17th-century … house of the 14th century, much altered late in the 16th or early in the 17th century, when, according to an old … 5 There are disused quarries in the south-west. Among place names found in the parish are Doriebruggesfield, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of Meadow. In the Confessor's Time this was 6l. sclo. (or 60s.) in the Conqueror's 40. Osbert held it. And it had … Value. Here was a Family which took their Name from this Place, of which I find several, but cannot give an exact … Francis Greneham, Gent. amongst other Things, the whole House and Scite of the Hospital of St. Leonard, of Stoke by …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… north-west of the church, the sixteenth-century manor house originally stood. To the left of the site of the manor house is a large fish-pond supplied with water from the Test … the manor had passed into the hands of Henry de Caritate or de la Charit and was held of him by John de Windsor while …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of the Mole valley, and the village, church, and manor-house are on gravel near the river. The road from Letherhead … The arms of the family are azure a herring argent, a chief or. 5 MANOR Before the Norman Conquest STOKE [ D'ABERNON] was … under the Earls of Gloucester, and gave its name to the place, seems to have been Roger D'Abernon, who held in West …
A History of the County of Northampton
… distance to the south-east is the Rectory, a 17th century house with later additions. On one of the bay windows is the … a gable of this north wing is dated 1731. The old manor house south of the church was pulled down about 1870 and a … 13 He was living in 1227, 14 but was succeeded by Edmund or Simon de Stoke shortly afterwards. 15 In 12423 John de …
A History of the County of Rutland
… ancient family of Digbys,' 1 but nothing now exists of the house they formerly occupied. There remained until about … church, what appears to have been part of the stabling, or other outbuildings, of the Digby manor house. This consisted of an oblong stone building measuring …