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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… has its name of Wickham from the Saxon words Wic, a street or way, and ham, a dwelling. This parish bounds to the county … north-west, is the village, in the middle of which is a house, which some few years ago was the residence of Sir Tho. … of Farnborough. 1 In the time of Edward the Confessor this place was held of the king by one Godric. William the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the parish. On the east is the county boundary with Suffolk. In 1814 c. 66 a. by the southern part of the eastern … to be extra-parochial, never having paid tithes, rates, or taxes in any parish. Shortly before, however, the rector … built on them in the 1460s. 31 At Yen Hall only the farm-house survived in the 18th century. 32 Some prosperous …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… includes the hamlet of Swinithwaite. Here stands the chief house in the parish, Swinithwaite Hall, a fine mansion which … Doveskar Plain and Dove Skar recall a 13th-century place-name, 14 afterwards used to describe the whole … 5 ft. 2 in. There are also here several plain tomb or coffin slabs. Temple Farm is an early 17th-century …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the north the land falls to less than 500 ft. No railway or high road traverses the parish, and the population is purely agricultural. West Woodhay House, the residence of Mr. Alfred Clayton Cole, was built in … of the front being quiet and dignified, but in 1881 the house was considerably altered and enlarged, a new …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… southeastwards from the main LondonNewmarket road to the Suffolk border. It is less than 2 miles across at its widest, … that it dates from before the Conquest. The name Dungate or Denegate is recorded from the early 14th century. 4 The … the 17th century, and it is also the site of Parys's manor-house. By the early 20th century the first two parts of the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… River Wye, a tributary of the Thames, which rises in Lang, or Long, Meadow on the West Wycombe estate and flows east … and pasture land interspersed with an occasional old farm-house or cottage with beech-clad ridges in the rear. Almost … its name to the hundred, it probably marks the meeting-place of the early hundred court or folk-mote. Little …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Kent. Somner is of opinion, that very antiently and stury or arm of the sea covered this level, and that the water of … of this parish. CLINCHES, alias HOPENHALL, is a manor, the house of which is situated on the north side of … part of the hundred of Blengate intervening, the principal house and estate in it was, for some length of time, the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Westcote parish was called Icomb 6 and later Combe 7 or, more commonly from the 13th century, Combe Baskerville. 8 … parish was in the area known as Gawcombe, where the manor-house of the Baskerville family was thought to have been, 12 … built in the 17th century and considerable building took place in the 19th century, when the number of houses in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mile west of the church, is probably the westernmost house of a scattered village rather than an early outlying … a carrier from the village travelled to Banbury once or twice a week, and in the early 20th century another went … at first found the parish 'a very turbulent, undisciplined place' and complained of rowdy behaviour in church. By 1854 …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Stokesley 9; it was described in 1716 as 'a large forest or moor called Stokesley and Stockdale Moor,' … forest of Westerdale, and in connexion with this pasture a house and close near Wooddale Beck (Wulvedalebec) by … in Westerdale and wood for building and burning at their place in Westerdale, 59 the meadow 'sub Refholes,' and …