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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… 7 miles distant. An early 17th-century half-timbered house with later additions on the south side of this road … Protector's uncle. Farther on, north of the road, the last house on that side, is another half-timbered house faced with bricks, called Limetree Farm, and formerly …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to Woodbridge on the river Coln; the name survives for a house called Postcombe just within Chedworth parish. The … northern end. The main road from Gloucester to Oxford and London enters the parish at the place called Kilkenny and … said to be from Lady Mary Wortley Montague's house in London. 585 Between 1997 and 1999 the old west wing was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… depopulated place, there being no more left of the Mannour house than the bare skeleton, not habitable, and two mean … to Christopher Wrenn, to Thomas Broke, merchant tailor of London, and John Wyllyams in 1544. 15 By Broke it was …
A History of the County of Surrey
… last. The parish is intersected from north to south by the London and Portsmouth road, and in the same direction by the London and South Western Railway to Portsmouth. Milford … South Western Railway, which has a station there. Milford House, the seat of Mr. R. W. Webb, J.P., is a substantial …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… at the yearly rent of fourteen pounds, 1 when the manor-house or court-lodge of it, from its belonging to the above … esq. afterwards knighted, who sold it to Mr. Menell, of London. At length after some intermediate owners, it became … the rectory of Rochdale, in Lancashire. Now lord bishop of London. See Rucking before. Afterwards rector and vicar of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the parish, with Great Ote Hall and Lunces Hall (a modern house) to the west of it. More House is on the roadside to … are five bells: 64 (1) and (2) 1766, Lester and Pack of London. (3) 1599, Edmund Giles of Lewes. (4) Probably … in Aure Dei'and two shields. 65 (5) 1714, Samuel Knight of London. The plate includes a chalice and paten (1869 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… contour on the north and south. Moor Hall, now only a farm-house, is partly situated in Bidford parish, but is reckoned … remainder is covered with rough-cast cement. The original house evidently extended farther to the north. In the 17th … which is carved with a dragon and foliage. All round the house are traces of a large moat and adjoining north-east of …
A History of the County of Bedford
… by-path leads north-west to Birchmoor Farm, the old manor-house of the Stauntons in the 17th century. The stream which … outbreak of hostilities, Lord Keeper Williams set out from London to join the king at York, and was arrested at an inn … there are several fine lakes. The main entrance is on the London road, while there are smaller gates by the church, in …
A History of the County of Surrey
… modern Woking near the railway. In addition to the market house of 1665, which still stands in Woking village street, … barracks. An Orphanage for the children of servants of the London and South-Western Railway was opened close to Woking … 1242. It was held by his brother Fulk, 6 who was Bishop of London and died in 1259. His younger brother Philip …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of the parish. The main road from Reading to Staines and London enters Wokingham from the north-west and then runs … of All Saints lies to the east of the town just off the London Road. The present town hall, opened by Lord Braybrooke … 17 Great and Little Gurnardes 18 (xvi cent.); a copyhold house called Whits by Limmer Hill 19 (xviii cent.); certain …