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A History of the County of Buckingham
… chief crops grown are wheat, oats, barley and beans. The London and North Western railway crosses the parish, and the … A little south of the church are the rectory, a modern house built in 1868, and the school, originally erected in … sons, Henry Billington Whitworth and Robert Whitworth of London. The latter's moiety was purchased from him by his …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… South of the church, on low ground, stands the manor house, known as Winchendon Priory since the middle of the … 2 and now the seat of Mrs. Napier Higgins. The present house, which consists of a central block and two wings, was … 32 who sold it to William Goodwin, citizen and mercer of London, twelve years later. 33 The sale was confirmed by the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… by the road from the west end of the churchyard. The house was rebuilt in brick at the end of the 18th century. 2 … two centuries before 1829 by the Mercers' Company of London. Kingswood Lane Farm is a two-storied 17th-century … by William Honeywood and others to the Mercers' Company of London. 139 They exchanged it for other property about 1829 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… The parish consists of a single farm, of which the house occupied in 1831 by the whole population, a family of …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… station on the Bletchley and Banbury section of the London and North Western railway. It contains many … church possibly marks their grave. The church and rectory-house stand at the southern end of the village, high among … fir down the hill-side to Buckingham. Maids' Moreton Manor House, built near the site of the old manor and the residence …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… latter, erected in 1846, 4 possibly replaced the Parsonage House of five bays of stone and timber which stood here in … Chandler, 1678, and the tenor is by J. Warner & Sons of London, 1854. The small bell, inscribed 'H. K.,' is doubtless … communion plate includes a cup and cover paten with the London hall-marks for 1674, and both inscribed 'Marsh-Gibbons …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… including three fine pieces of water. In it stands Claydon House, the seat of Sir Harry Calvert Williams Verney, bart., … and a small portion belonging to the railway. Claydon House was originally built in the time of Henry VII, probably … the will of Mrs. Emily Caroline Freemantle, proved at London 20 September 1877, consists of the following sums of …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… of the centre of the parish, about a mile west of the London Road. Many of the cottages are of half-timber and … 2 which probably mark the site of the ancient manor-house and its ponds called in 1418 the Pondwykes. 3 At the … of 7 December 1693 when returning home after a visit to London about litigation in which he was engaged with his …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 1639 thus describes the rectory: 'The parsonage dwelling-house contains six bays tiled, one corn barn of five bays and … one hay barn of three bays thatched, a stable with a gate house, and other houses for other uses contain five bays; one other little house contains three bays thatched.' 4 The Civil War, which …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… south bank of the Ouse. The high road from Northampton to London passes through the town, and roads from Stony … Tickford Bridge and becoming Tickford Street and then the London road; and from its north end the Northampton road runs … It seems probable that the two were identical. The Newport house was founded probably before 1241 13 and existed in …