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A History of the County of Hampshire
… The Grange Farm in the south of the parish is an old house of some interest. There are 506 acres of arable land, … parish land or commons. An offshoot of the main road from London to Gosport divides the parish into two nearly equal … Brune family. The nearest station is Brockhurst, where the London and South Western line joins the Lee-on-the-Solent …
A History of the County of Bedford
… also a fine Congregational chapel built in 1822. Roxton House, standing in a park, is an 18th-century brick building … north, where there is an ancient moat surrounding a modern house which marks the site of Chawston Manor, and Colesden in … property to William Boxe, citizen and grocer of London, and Anne his wife in 1546. 84 By 15534 it had become …
A History of the County of Essex
… Parishes Roydon ROYDON Roydon is 35 km. NNE of London, within the metropolitan Green Belt. Harlow Town … pattern of settlement before 1777. By then a gentleman's house, Mount Pleasant (later Fedsden), had been built in … It was well used until competition with the railway from London to Bishop's Stortford caused a sudden decline in the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… intersection of Ermine Street, which runs northward from London to York, with the Icknield Way running almost due east … up in the myddest of Icknell Streate . . . a fayer House or Crosse . . . for a clockhowse and a Pryson Howse.' … to the travellers who passed through on the way from London to the north. 68 For the spiritual 'relief of poor …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to Parker, in which name it remained till John Parker, of London, alienated it in 1706 to Edward Andrews, of Hinxhill, … was afterwards bishop of Chester, and thence translated to London, of which he is now bishop. And rector of Gillingham …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Rudby, founded by Charles Bathurst in 1740. 9 It was to a house in this parish that Mary Ward, foundress of the … consists of a silver cup of 1744 made by Richard Bayley of London, inscribed 'The gift of Elizabeth Brown late of … 1809 (and his wife), buried in South Audley Street Chapel, London; (iv) Elizabeth Lady Amherst, d. 1830; (v) Amelia wife …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… stands a little to the east of this road. The old manor-house of Northbury Farm is now converted into two cottages. … the central block and extended the full width of the house, but a passage has been taken out of it on the west. … goldsmith, and William Boyer, a linen-draper, citizens of London. 20 At the Restoration it returned to the cathedral, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to have greatly enlarged, or perhaps replaced, the manor-house and to have imparked the land around it. By 1803 the house and park dominated the old part of the village. 23 The house stood behind the church. It was approached by a road …
A History of the County of Hertford
… 51 of Cumberlow Green, son of Simon Edmonds, alderman of London. 52 On the death of Joseph Edmonds Rushden descended … under the terms of the will of Luke Hodges, merchant of London, who had married John's daughter Mary Spence in 1692. … son and heir of Christopher Mole, late of the East India House, deceased, 61 third son of Dorothy Mole. 62 In this …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the boot-making industry. The present rectory-house appears to have been built about 1870, and cannot … with the hall in the south range. The greater part of the house, which is of local limestone with red tiled roofs, … of a sale did not take in Sir Lewis Pemberton's 'Cheife house Called the Hall', said to be held of the Crown in …