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Gamul House, Cheshire, England= Gamul House is at 52–58 Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and contains the only medieval stone-built open hall to survive in Chester.[2]==History==The date of its original building is not known but it was altered in the 17th, 18th and 20th centuri...
The town of Rainham is a part of the Medway Towns conurbation, under the unitary authority of Medway, in South East England, and part of the ceremonial county of Kent. Historically, Rainham was a separate village until, in 1928, it was added to the Municipal Borough of Gillingham. 1881 Census was conducted on the 3rd of April. The most common surnames for the village of Rainham were Kitney and ...
Boston Manor House, Middlesex, London, England= Boston Manor was one of the ancient manors of Middlesex. It has now been assimilated into the London Borough of Hounslow west London, England. Its Jacobean manor house of 1622 still stands in what is now Boston Manor Park. ==History of the former Manor of Boston==The earliest reference to Boston (or Bordwadestone as it was then spelled) was around...
Clophill & Cainhoe Manor, Bedfordshire, England=Volume II of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire, published in 1908, gives the histories of all the five manors in Clophill as far as they were known at the time. The Manor of Clophill and Cainhoe has its origins in the two manors held at the time of Domesday Book by Nigel de Albini one, as the name suggests in Clophill, which had five hi...
Great Hasely Manor, Oxfordshire, England=In 1086 the parish’s four manors were assessed at 30 hides and a yardland. The largest was the 16-hide Great Haseley manor, which was held by high-status secular lords (including members of the royal family) until 1478 when it was granted to St George’s chapel, Windsor. A separate lordship at Latchford was carved from the Great Haseley estate in the 13th...
Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, England=* The name ‘Danes Mere’ for one of the lakes suggests that Danish raiders were at Combermere during the reign of Edward the Elder * 1095 saw the birth of Hugh de Malbank , later to be second Baron Wich-Malbank of Nantwich, who, with his wife Petronilla, was the Abbey’s founder.* 1133 Combermere Abbey endowed in the Savigny order by Hugh, Wich-Malbank, and wit...
Leicester Square (incl. Leicester House), London, England= Leicester Square Listeni/ˈlɛstər/ is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 and is named after the contemporary Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester .The square was originally a gentrified residential area, with notable tenants including Frederick, Prince o...
Sulhamstead Abbots, Berkshire, England=The manor of SULHAMSTEAD ABBOTS is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, and its early history is entirely unknown until it appears amongst the possessions of Reading Abbey at the close of the 12th century. At that time one of the tenants of the abbey, Robert Pincent (Punzun), was deeply in debt and together with his son and heir William quitclaimed much o...
Shaw House, Berkshire, England= Shaw House is an important example of an early symmetrical H-plan Elizabethan mansion, located at Shaw, on the north-eastern outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire.===History===The manor house of Shaw, Shaw House was built by the wealthy cloth merchant, Thomas Dolman, and completed in 1581. It is famous for its reputation as King Charles I's headquarters during the Se...
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England= Baddesley Clinton (grid reference SP199714), is a moated manor house, located just north of the historic town of Warwick in the English county of Warwickshire; the house was probably established during the 13th century when large areas of the Forest of Arden were cleared and eventually converted to farmland. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and ...
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Ragley Hall (grid reference SP073555) is located south of Alcester, Warwickshire, eight miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the ancestral seat of the Marquess of Hertford and is one of the stately homes of England. ===History===The house, which was designed by Dr Robert Hooke, was built for the Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway and completed in 1...
Englefield House, Berkshire, England= ENGLEFIELD was held under King Edward the Confessor by a certain Alwin, and after the Norman Conquest it was apparently granted to William Fitz Ansculf. At the time of the Domesday Survey the overlordship of the manor was vested in William Fitz Ansculf, who also held the neighbouring manor of Bradfield. Englefield was one of a small group of manors which we...
Adlington Hall, Cheshire, England= Adlington Hall is a country house in Cheshire, England. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581. The Legh family has lived in the hall and in previous buildings on the same site since the early 14th century. After the house was occupied by Parliamentary forces during the C...
Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Broughton Castle is a medieval manor house located in the village of Broughton which is about two miles south-west of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England on the B4035 road (grid reference SP418382). It is the home of the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele. The castle sits in parkland and is surrounded by a wide moat.===History===The castle was built as a mano...
Fyfield Manor, Oxfordshire, England= The Fyfield estate was inherited by Sir John Golafre Senior (d. 1363) from his mother-in-law, Juliana , widow of Sir John de Fyfield, in 1336. It was probably in this year that he rebuilt any pre-existing house and, surprisingly, a substantial part of his 14th century building survives in the Fyfield Manor of today. The porch and cross-wing at the end of the...
Halton Castle, Cheshire, England= Halton Castle is in the former village of Halton which is now part of the town of Runcorn, Cheshire, England. The castle is situated on the top of Halton Hill, a sandstone prominence overlooking the village. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and a scheduled ancient monument.It was the seat of the B...
Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, England= Cornbury Park is an estate near Charlbury, Oxfordshire. It comprises about 5000 acres, mostly farmland and woods, including a remnant of the Wychwood Forest, and was the original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival and later the Wilderness Festival.Cornbury used to be a royal hunting estate. The park is first mentioned in the Domesday book as a "demesne fo...
Kintbury Manor, Berkshire, England=Pictured right may be Elcot Park or KintburyThe whole of the southern portion of the parish, the original township of Kintbury, and perhaps also the townships of Elcot with Wormstall and Clapton, seem to have belonged to the king, but some time between 980 and the Norman Conquest the two northern townships and certain lands in Kintbury, near the church, were g...
Claremont, Surrey, England= Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont ', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England. The buildings are now occupied by Claremont Fan Court School, and its landscaped gardens are owned and managed by the National Trust. Claremont House is a Grade I listed building.===Claremont estate===The first hous...
Beaulieu, Hampshire, England=>===== Image Right: This photo was taken by Przemysław JahrAutorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław JahrWykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autora:Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons - Own work, Public Domain, WIKI In 1205 King John founded Beaulieu Abbey, endowing it with lands in the New Forest, which remained to it until the Dissolution. In 1220 the abbot and monks ob...
Hinton Ampner House, Hampshire, England= Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.The house and garden are owned by the National Trust and are open to the publicThe garden was created by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), the 8th and last Baron Sherborne, starting in 1930, making this a modern 20t...
Basing House, Hampshire, England= BASING is first mentioned in the will of King Edred, who left to his mother 'the lands at Amesbury, Wantnge and Basing.' Under Edward the Confessor it was held by Altei, who could 'betake himself whither he would.' It was then assessed at 11 hides. In 1086 it was assessed at 6½ and was held of the Conqueror by Hugh de Port as the chief of his fifty-five lordshi...
Stansted Park, Hampshire, England= Stansted Park began as a hunting lodge 800 years ago. Royal visitors are recorded from Henry II to the present generation. After several owners, and a calamitous fire in 1900, the mansion was rebuilt in 1901 on the exact footprint of the 1688 house, and became the family home of the Ponsonbys, Earls of Bessborough, in 1924.“A House seeming to be a Retreat” Dan...
Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire, England= Bulstrode is a large park and mansion to the northwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Gerrard's Cross in the English Home Counties. The estate predates the Norman conquest and the name may originate from the Anglo-Saxon words burh (marsh) and stród meaning (fort). [1]===First house===The previous house was built in 1686 for the infamous Judge Jeffreys ....
Hatchlands Park, Surrey, England= Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between West Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has been a Grade I listed property since 1967.[1]===History===The park initially belonged to the Chertsey Abbey with the park...