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A History of the County of Surrey
… the parish, and the disused Wey and Arun Canal also. The London, Brighton and South Coast line from Guildford to … at Alfold. At the top of the Green is another good timber house with a projecting gable with a moulded bressummer on … a marble slab to the memory of Robert Gwynn, a 'Filezar of London,' with a fine heraldic panel and the date 1701. Built …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… for about a mile and a half north, the road rises to a house which standing to the west at the top of the hill is … 100 Norton Farm is now the property of Mr. G. Hampton of London. Lands in CRANBORNE (Cramburnan, x cent.; Gramborne, … given by Thomas Newry, rector, in 1717, and bearing the London hallmark for 1716. It consists of chalice with cover …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… outbuildings incorporate remains of the 15th-century manor-house of the Deyncourt and Lovel families. The cottages are … and brick. The Royal Oak Inn, now a private dwelling-house, has two 17th-century carved wooden figures fixed to … are said to have spent 100,000 on the improvement of the house and grounds. 8 Traces of the terraces which they cut in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 19th century, though part of the 18thcentury house remains, 9 together with the stables. 10 To the north … a dental cornice. The porch is dated and signed 'Coade, London, 1791', 19 and was designed by Sir John Soane, who … and Anne Sedley of Digswell and Northaw (Herts.), lived in London and later in Oxford, where Anne died in 1669. 78 His …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of Abbots Ripton, where there is a station on the London and North Eastern Railway. At the northern end of the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Wood, or Woodchurch chapel; near it there is but one house, the rest of the houses being near a mile from it, at a … appears to be the ruins of the tower. There is a farm-house adjoining the inclosure, which is about a quarter of a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… providing inland water communication between Bristol and London. 10 In 1811 work was started on building a wharf at … southwest to Westbury in 1900, gave rapid access to London and was used to carry the dairy produce of the parish … on the Pewsey road. On the west of the base are Manor House and the post office. At the end of Church Lane, which …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the church on the north-west side of it, and the parsonage-house. In the south-west part of the parish is Shirley-house … At length it descended to Sir Harcourt Master, alderman of London, who became possessed of it for the term of his life, … gent. of Tunstall, whose descendant Richard Grove, esq. of London, who died unmarried in 1792, by will devised it to Mr. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… stands on the east of the road near the river. The rectory house was built in 1820; some portions of the medieval … New Town. The Northampton and Peterborough branch of the London Midland and Scottish Railway crosses the parish for a … In 1369 Sir Roger de Bois, knt., sold it to John Pyel of London, 27 who died before 1385, when his executors assigned …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Lane runs southward from it to South Street. The Manor House stands at the north-east corner of the village. It is a large brick house with tiled roofs partly built in the 17th and partly in … and panelling. There is also an early 18th-century brick house on the north side of South Street. A homestead moat …