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A History of the County of Surrey
… above the Thames Valley, affording views from Windsor to London, and celebrated by Sir John Denham, a native of Egham, … War and published in 1643. The old south-western road from London came across Staines Bridge and through Egham parish, … the most notable is Fosters, or Great Fosters, or Foster House. It is said traditionally, and probably untruly, to …
Magna Britannia
… Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne, the present proprietor. The house, which was lately occupied by Francis Hearle Rodd, … Bart., father of the present proprietor. A farm-house now occupies the site of the barton: part of the … A. O. Molesworth, Bart. The barton, on which is now a farm-house, was a seat of the ancient family of Kestell, from whom …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… in existence by 1538. 5 The name survives in Westonby House, Lodge and Moor. Egton was assessed for the subsidy in … containing on the ground floor the revestry and chapter-house and on the upper floor the dorter, which measured 36 … paten and flagon of mediaeval design, by Keith & Co., London. 120 The registers begin in 1622. 121 The church of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… on a slope close to Eldersfield Court, the old manor-house, a two-story brick house with a red tiled hipped roof. At Eldersfield Court is a … Church. 8 Half a mile to the east of the church at Pigeon House Farm, a two-storied house of red brick with tiled roof, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… disused for a regular constancy, is held in the market-house here once in five or six years, to keep up the claim to … I.'s reign, alienated it to Mr. John Aelst, merchant, of London; after which, I find by the court rolls, that it was … out of it, of 87l. 13s. 1d. to the ironmongers company, in London. Shottlesfield is a manor, situated at the southeast …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in Eling channel. There is a station at Totton on the London and South Western Railway. Totton is the most populous … residence of the Misses Hony, and to the north is Downs House, standing in grounds of 140 acres, the property of Mr. … in this parish near the Lyndhurst Road Station, on the London and South Western Railway. The village lies along …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the township of Wilton. Ellerburn itself has only one farm-house and a few cottages; it formed from the 14th century to … higher up Thornton Beck are Paper Mill Farm, Musdale House, a fishpond and Ellers Wood. Ellerburn Wood, stretching … Hall, with remains of a roughly rectangular moat; it was a house here that John de Heslerton had licence to crenellate …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… is an old dovecote, possibly of the 16th century, Terrick House, at which there are remains of 17th-century work much … southern part of the parish. Between Nash Lee and Terrick House the site of a Roman villa has been discovered, and … interspersed with larch, holly, and box. The present house dates from the end of the 15th century, but is on the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… ancient manorhouse of the Lisles, converted into a farm-house by Henry Baring of Somerley 3 in the beginning of the … of a tithe of all the crops growing in the marsh near his house. 43 His son and successor Robert Taisson witnessed a … Walter de St. Quintin or Taisson, with the tithe from his house, to the abbey of St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte about 1170, and …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… the south side of the road is the church with the vicarage house and the school built in 1870. To the west of a road … on the east side of the village, is a late 17th-century house, built perhaps by the Throckmortons. It was probably … Punt, John Sapcote and William Par. Thomas Punt, late of London, died in 1454 seised of a third part of lands in …