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A History of the County of Essex
… Purfoots) 17 at Purfoots Green is a timber-framed house, probably of late medieval origin. On the Roydon road … 21 In the 19th century it was the headquarters of a London foxhunting club. 22 Bush Fair House, on Mark Hall … boundary. 30 The Northern and Eastern railway line from London, which reached Harlow in 1841, and was extended to …
Magna Britannia
… Norton, formerly a seat of the Arscotts, is now a farm-house belonging to the Rev. F. H. Morrison. There is the site … called Dunheved, lies on the great mail-coach road from London to the Land's-end, about 214 miles from the former, … for holding the shire assizes, the constable's dwelling-house, and the common gayle." The survey of 1650 22 describes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… houses appear in the hearth-tax list. 8 There was no great house but a number of comfortable gentlemen's houses and … main contribution. It was probably built by John Ashby, a London haberdasher, who was living there in the early 19th … 8 d. p.a.; 1683, idem*; 1697, George Walcot, merchant of London, and John Crump, gent. of Barnard's Inn*; 1704, idem*; …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… being attained in Ridgeway Copse in the north. Laverstoke House, standing in a park of 275 acres which slopes down to … architect Joseph Bonomi, A.R.A. The former Laverstoke House, which was then demolished, was a brick-built late … on the subject on 16 January 1636. 17 He describes the house as 'a very fayre brick built house not big, but as it …
Magna Britannia
… Grylls, formerly a seat of the Betensons, is now a farm-house, the property of E. J. Glynn, Esq. St. Levan ST. LEVAN, … borough and market-town, situated about 225 miles from London, and 16 from PlymouthDock. Liskeard was made a free … miles from Bodmin, about 28 from Plymouth, and 236 from London. Mr. Whitaker supposes Lostwithiel to have been the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… square. South-west of the church Brill's Court was a large house in the 17th century: in the early 19th century it was … further building until the later 20th century. A rectory house and some private houses in the Street and 14 council … between 1807 and 1840, 33 and in the late 19th century Lea House, a large brick and stone villa, was built south of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by the late owners of the former Hams Hall. A farm-house, now tenements, on the west side of the green is of … timber-framed barn belonging to an 18th-century brick farm-house. Blackgreaves Farm, mile north-west of Lea, is of … and land at Marston, ground rents on property at Bow, London, and Stock, the whole producing an annual income of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Woods. The older part of Landmoth Hall, the former manor-house of the Green family, 2 is a rectangular building dating … it serves as an outbuilding to the modern brick farm-house next it, and is in rather a ruinous condition. It is of … a cup of 1749 with the maker's mark of Richard Bayley of London and two pewter plates. There is also a pewter font …
A History of the County of Warwick
… date. It is built against the remains of a 16th-century house which retains an original two-light square-headed … or stone dressings, which suggests that the present house is part of an ambitious scheme that was never … divided, part remaining with the baronetcy but the manor-house and some 2,000 acres (of 2,700 acres in all) going to …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Woolwich Beds, and the parish extends northwards on to the London Clay. The immediate valley of the river is alluvium. … the parish is otherwise agricultural. The main road from London to Horsham, through Epsom and Dorking, traverses the … and the adjoining field, and Pachevesham, now only a farm-house, gave its name to the Domesday manor, indicating that …