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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and the salubrity of its air. The great road from London to Canterbury runs through the midst of it eastward, … north side of the road, stands the church and parsonage-house; and on the other side, nearly opposite, but somewhat … of Hall-place, situated adjoining to the northside of the London road, and acquired the name of Beverley, from a family …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in 1535. 87 The rents from a cottage called the Town House were allotted to provide lights in the church. In 1553, … it is generally believed that the parish officers built a house on the land devized by Gilbert Thacker and for this …
A History of the County of Warwick
… or 3,600 acres, was passed in 1779. 10 The names Leicester House Farm and Temple House are to be associated with the Earls of Leicester and … 47 They sold this Harbury manor to Thomas Wagstaff, a London lawyer, brother of Richard Wagstaff who subsequently …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the Queen's mills and also dug a ditch about St. Thomas's house (a hospital on the South bridge) and diverted water … in 1842. The Eleanor Cross stands on the east side of the London road on the brow of the hill, about a mile from … here in 1722; 72 and Bartholomew Clarke, merchant of London, 73 acquired the manor. Sir Jacob des Bouverie, bart., …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the parish in 1831. 14 The Chequers, once a public house, is a timberframed and plastered house dating from the … I granted the manor to George Salter and John Williams of London who appointed William Knight, rector of Little … 31 Knight's son William sold it to Owen St. Pierre of London in 1627. 32 Three years later St. Pierre sold it to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 8 The one-time school (dated 1873), now a private house; a few semi-detached cottages built of stone with brick … 1540, Henry VIII in 1545 sold the advowson to John Pope of London, 100 with whom the lord of the manor, William Fermor, … Mary his wife (d. 1717); Ann, wife of Nicholas Saers of London (d. 1721); Samuel Tooley (d. 1721/2); and three to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… situated in a hollow on the brow of a hill. The old manor-house, now used as a farm, stands to the south-east of the … 'having spent seven years as a factor in France' came to London, 'where he received the freedom of the company of … of the founder's marks appears to have been cast in London by William Dawe in association with John Bird, or by …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… shafts of thin bricks. The rectory is a 16th-century stone house, to which considerable additions have been made in modern times. To the east of it is a timber-framed house with an infilling of herring-bone brickwork; it dates … in 1854 and 1892 respectively. Here is Lilies, a red brick house, built in 1870, standing in well-wooded grounds, the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… trees, with the rectory to the west of it. The rectory house is a late-16th-century building of coursed freestone … and breaking the eaved roof with a coped gable. The house has been much restored and altered, and only one of the … Act. 42 Geo. III, c. 37. Kelly, Directories. The Manor House was referred to in 1885 as in the occupation of John …
A History of the County of Bedford
… to the north-east. In the main village is the manor-house, a 17th-century building with later additions. Charles … portion of the parish to the west of the village. Their house was burnt down many years ago, and a farm-house, in which a portion of the old building was …