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A History of the County of Gloucester
… that was the Homedowns Inn was possibly an openhall house 24 the earliest known documentary reference to … Ferrers's younger brother, William (d. 1625), a citizen of London, whose monument is in Ashchurch church, endowed … and a long inscription for William Ferrers, citizen of London (d. 1625). 534 The royal arms, on canvas, are of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and Tangley and the Highclere Hills. The main road from London to Exeter runs through the parish, which is also crossed by the London and South Western Railway in two places. Kingsdown in … Hon. Henry Augustus Stanhope, J.P., in 1887. 2 The farm-house now called Ashe Warren House was remodelled and added …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… grass and 400 acres of woods and plantations. 1 Ashley House was built by the Misses Taunton in 1854 and is now the … village is grouped round the church of St. Mary and Ashley House. The soil is a clayey loam with a subsoil of chalk, and …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Thanet beds, and the other extremity reaching on to the London Clay, which rises in Ashtead Common to a height of 270 … Epsom to Letherhead passes through Ashtead, and the joint London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton, and … in a little room in which he could not stand upright. The house of a cousin of his, who had formerly lived in Ashtead, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and windows with ornamented stone surrounds. Ashton Wood House, in a secluded position on the edge of the hill, is the only outlying farmstead. It is an early 17th-century house with twin stone gables on the north and south and … to the mullioned windows and arched doorway. The house, which has a timber-framed barn, is perhaps …
A History of the County of Hertford
… some share in the government of the town. The Brotherhood House stood in the High Street of Ashwell (see under gild). … 9 In 1575 Queen Elizabeth granted to the Bishop of London the right to hold a market weekly on Mondays. 10 It … extant. Three fairs yearly were granted to the Bishop of London by Queen Elizabeth, 13 but afterwards there appears to …
A History of the County of Rutland
… father of Sir Richard Levett, haberdasher, Lord Mayor of London in 1700. 2 In more recent times another rector of … Baron Dawnay of Cowick in 1796. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1800. On his death without issue in 1832 … is a ring of six bells, the first by C. and G. Mears of London, 1850; the second by Thomas Hedderley (I) of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… the Tithes and some Glebe, with the Parsonage House, &c. were Mr. Gervas Armstrong's, of Scarrington, as in … There was a Chapel in the Town, which is now a Dwelling-House. [Throsby] Aslacton. THIS lordship was inclosed in … prelate. On the scite of that, on which the Bishop's house stood, is erected one occupied by Mr. Spurr, who has in …
A History of the County of Bedford
… barley, wheat, oats and beans are raised. Plan of the 'Old House,' Aspley Guise The village of Aspley Guise in the east … of which is entered from the south by a lychgate. Aspley House in the centre is the residence of Mrs. C. V. S. Downes, … has a station on the Bedford and Cambridge branch of the London and North-Western railway, which runs through this …