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A History of the County of Surrey
… and adjoining the churchyard on the east is the manor-house, a two-storied 18th-century building of red brick with … west side of the road, a short distance beyond the manor-house. The front is of 18th-century date, though portions of the house appear to be earlier. Opposite the church a road runs …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… building; almost contiguous to it is a handsome sashed house, belonging to the Jull family, now made use of as a … esq. formerly of Cambridge, but afterwards of the Temple, London, who dying unmarried a few years ago, and having no … afterwards, to Roger James, merchant, of the city of London. He was of Dutch parentage, and coming into England, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… 3 There are artificial silk works and brick works. The London Brick Co. are now the largest landowners in the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the country is pleasantly wooded. The soil is alluvium and London Clay, with a strip of the Reading Beds close to the … It contains some old brick and timber houses. Woolhampton House, the residence of Captain Count Dudley Beaumont … The vicarage appears to be a modernized Elizabethan house. The Gill Campbell Hall is used as a club for the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… station on the Huntingdon and Kettering branch of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It lies about 6 miles … side of the road, to the north of it, while the Manor House lies west of the church. There are some 17th-century … John Stukeley contracted a debt with the prior of the London Charterhouse in 1396 which had not been paid at the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… which is partly 17th-century, 9 and a small timber-framed house of the 17th century with later additions in stone and a … only a few newly built houses. A red brick farm-house on the lower slopes of Woolstone Hill, and Bozard's Farm, a 19thcentury brick house in the extreme west of the parish, were the only …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… fair. The parish extends southward as far as the high London road, near Shooter's-hill, adjoining to which is … a fore-castle, half-deck, quarter-deck, and round-house. The lower tier had 60 ports, the middle one 30, the … A description of this ship was published by authority, at London, in quarto, in 1637, by T. Haywood, the celebrated …
A History of the County of Bedford
… as Keeley, Causeway End, Tags End and Bott End. Wootton House, which stands in a park of 70 acres at the west end of … was probably situated. The Bedford branch of the London and North-Western railway and the Midland railway both … in that year by George Monoux, citizen and alderman of London, 21 in whose family it remained for many generations. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… earlier buildings. The older northern wing of the rectory house was erected by Jeremiah Stephens (rector 162644) and … which had now come to Sir John Allen, alderman of London, although Humphrey had a son, Sir Edward Grey, father … his parishioners; many of them, aged and poor, trudged to London to petition against his oppression. The Committee of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Deal, of the elder branch; Thomas Coppin, gent. of London, of the second, and John Coppin, of Wootton, of the … and his claim to it has been for some time pending in the house of lords. GEDDINGS is a borough and hamlet, at the … settled at Wootton were proprietors, and resided at HILL-HOUSE, in this parish, situated about half a mile southward …