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A History of the County of Oxford
… Hordley, and Dornford which had been reduced to one or two isolated farmhouses by the end of the Middle Ages. … rectangle of streets below the church and former rectory house (Wootton Place) which stand on the hill top. The prominence of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… high ground beyond this dip Gilbert Basset built his great house of Vastern in the 13th century. Numerous wells and … there was, until the restoration of the hall, a lock-up or blind house. Beneath the hall in 1967 stood a pair of … War. 55 But Wootton Bassett's greatest expansion has taken place since the early 1950s when it has to some extent become …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… also to the civil parish of Monk Sherborne. The following place-names occur in local records: Est Acle, 7 Heselden, … Hordhulle, Haghyate, Samsoneswode 9 (xiv cent.); Cowedowne or Sower Downe, Bottom Meade 10 (xvii cent.). Manors The … in Manydown on condition that certain rooms in the manor-house were reserved for himself and his wife, and that he was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… incorporating parts of an earlier, probably Elizabethan, house. Outbuildings behind the house are possibly the remains … lord of the manor in Edward the Confessor's reign was Waga or Wahen, 13 but at the Conquest his lands were given to … Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset 25 and afterwards Duke of Suffolk. He was attainted and beheaded in 1554 and the manor …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the parish is the borough and hamlet of Felderland, or Fenderland, partly in Word, and partly in Eastry, formerly … Cannon, of Deal, Who are the present owners of it. The house, called the Downes house, is the courtlodge, but no … and was demised by Thomas Smith, esq. of that place, to Roger Manwood, jurat of Sandwich, for a long term …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of Stoneton. This way carries on to 'Claeihaema broc', or 'Cranmeres broc', which flows (past Claydon) into … contains a number of pleasant stone cottages, but the only house of any antiquity is the Manor House. The part of … corridors outside them and the southern containing a fire-place. The 'Star Chamber' was reduced only on the south side, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… It now consists of the church and Wormley Bury, the Manor House, the seat of Mr. Henry North Grant Bushby, J.P. (built … of an older house called Fernbeds, the rectory and one or two farms and cottages. Wormley Bury is a three-storied … 1783 to 1812; (iv) marriages from 1754 to 1812. A meeting-place for Protestant Dissenters in the parish was certified …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… summit of the chalk hills, the high road through Newnham or Syndallbottom towards Hollingborne, running along the … of this parish, in his will anno 1460, mentions his chief place, called Rychemonds, with other lands here, which he … guineas per annum. Church of Wormsell. PATRONS, RECTORS. Or by whom presented. James Tong, gent. for this turn. Robert …
A History of the County of Surrey
… dealt mainly with the Wyke portion in 1803. 2a Burying Place Farm has its name from a Friends' burial-ground, … date, and on the west side of the green a red brick house of the same period with slight ornament in the form of … the manor in trust for her son Francis. 50 Wintershull. Or two bars gules. Francis Wolley died seised of the manor in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and then rises towards the Forest. Worth Forest and Old House Warren lie on the east side of the railway line and … soil here is sandy loam, with a subsoil of sandstone. Fen Place is east of it, and Burleigh House near the eastern … approximately level, probably for an 18th-century plaster or wood casing: there is a later post under the middle of it …