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A History of the County of Warwick
… arches and with ball-ornaments on the parapets. The oldest house seems to be 'Magpies', a former farm-house facing east towards the green. The walls are of … of the plainer of the Wren churches in the City of London. The tower is an unusual example of a rebuilding in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 1629, for the benefit of the poor, not receiving alms, a house and lands, vested in Mess. Gilbird and Cart, of the … litter for his cows; all which should be carried to the house of the vicar. And he further decreed, that the mansion … manner of corn and grain, and a fair manor or parsonage house adjoining to the church yard, with the garden, orchard, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… was confirmed by the crown; at which time the parsonage-house of this rectory was in a ruinated state, and there were …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Downton is Lea Green, with Downton Manor Farm. Yeatton House, the residence of Mr. Charles Howard Ward, J.P., and … which different portions of this road are known. The main London and South Western line to Bournemouth cuts across the … times and is now connected by submarine telegraph with London and Osborne. MANORS The earliest record of Hordle that …
A History of the County of Surrey
… same kind of tiling occurs upon the walls of a large old house on the opposite side of the road. Heaverswood Common … it passed from the latter to the Mayor and Commonalty of London as Governors of Christ's Hospital, 26 and they have … upright in the quarter (which are the arms of the city of London) with a chief azure having a Tudor rose between two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hill in a rough parallelogram. On the west is the vicarage-house and on the south side of the hill-side are the … seems to have lived there until the 1660s when he went to London. 27 In the last quarter of the century the new lord, … transferred the estate to his son and heir John Danvers, a London sugar refiner, 92 and in 1663 the Danvers family sold …
A History of the County of Rutland
… but in 1287 Richard son of Richard de Seyton had a manor-house and in 1378 Sir John Seyton had his capital messuage …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… named stand fairly well above the general level of the house, the other two angle towers at the north-east and … modernized, like the greater part of the remainder of the house. The wing west of the St. Quintin's Tower is a … It is otherwise modernized. In the grounds west of the house is a small modern museum. There are fish-ponds in the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… 5 When it was made into a parish there was no parsonage-house. Mr. Stileman, who was instituted in 1728, bought a … Alice wife of Richard Virly, described as a spicer of London, and Joan wife of John Silverton, pelterer of London. 17 In 1408 John Silverton and Joan granted John …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Mr. T. Cornish of Horseheath Park. 86 The original manor-house of the Audley manor probably stood east of the village, … Carbonells and Stysteds to Richard Gardiner, alderman of London, 139 who in 1489 left 210 a. to his infant daughter … resident, although Thomas Rowell, 17327, lived mainly in London 337 and John Maule, 17761825, spent half of every year …