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A History of the County of Worcester
… gable. Opposite the church is a fair-sized timber-framed house with brick filling known as the Old Manor House, which formerly belonged to the Wigleys. It is probably … distance to the north is Nash's Farm, a black and white house of about the same date. It has a gabled wing at one …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Norton (part of the turnpike road from Worcester to London), which road runs for over 3 miles south-eastwards … for two or three 17th-century mullioned windows. The Manor House stands west of the church and faces south: it is of … wife, Margaret widow of Sir Ralph Dodmer, Lord Mayor of London, 11 and on his death without issue in 1559 left the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Park cover the whole of the western portion. Ashridge House, the seat of Earl Brownlow, stands in the middle of the … and was living there when she was arrested and summoned to London on the charge of being implicated in Wyatt's … Park, receiving the summons from Queen Mary to proceed to London as a prisoner. The officers sent to escort her are …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of Nicholas Ferrar and his family. 1 The ancient manor house where they lived stood between the present manor farm … following November the Parliamentary soldiers sacked the house and the church, and the family fled; they returned, … Sir John Knyvet, who, in 1423, sold it to John Gedney, of London. 27 In 1428 it was held, as a quarter of a knight's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with a tidy use of contrasting red and grey brick on the house and out-buildings. Before 1814 all the farmsteads had … from who it descended by will in 1764 to Thomas Lister of London. He in 1766 sold it to George Shergold (d. 1787) of Iver (Bucks.), 67 who in 1786 sold it to the London glassmanufacturer, Thomas Quintin (d. 1806), who had …
A History of the County of Essex
… the southern boundary of the parish. Further north, near a house called Romans, an Iron Age hut circle was found, … Hallingbury. 20 The Northern and Eastern Railway line from London, completed to Bishop's Stortford in 1842, skirted the … hospital there. When the hospital was eventually built in London the manor became part of its endowments. 36 In 1839 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… across Little Hampden Common. Near the church is the Manor House, an old building, but with little to which a definite …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Church, lying to the east of the road, with the manor house opposite it on the west. To the north of the church is … the testator's estate at Gumley in Leicestershire, and his house and land in Little Harrowden conveyed for a habitation …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hinton coppice, which is situated some distance behind the house, is mentioned in 1841. 26 Several substantial … attached to a manorial copyhold 30 and is an elegant brick house of three bays dating from the earlier 19th century. … and Mrs. M. C. Talbot-Ponsonby. It incorporates the farm-house of the tenants of the manorial estate, which appears to …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… demolished, was surrounded by a homestead moat. 2 Horwood House, in the south of the parish, is a modern building … erected by Mr. F. A. Denny, who pulled down the ancient house formerly standing on the site. 3 The grounds, which are … on the south by the Oxford to Bletchley branch of the London and North Western railway. There is a Baptist chapel …