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Glympton Park, Oxfordshire, England= Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House (an 18th-century country house) and has a 2,000 acres (810 ha) estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St. Mary, 21 stone cottages and 167 acres (68 ha) of parkland.===History===Glympton House ...
=Jewish Community of Brody= In celebration of the town of Brody , Austria, present day Ukraine, and the people who came from there, particularly those who died in the Holocaust. A city, where wisdom and wealth, Torah and understanding, commerce and faith are united - Nachman Krochmal , in a letter to Isaac Erter 1961 Please add your ancestors or heroes from Brody to the project. You can do so b...
Palladian villas of the Veneto, Italy The aim of the villa projects is to connect the villas to their owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on the villas. Please, add profiles to the respective villas below. If a project does not yet exist, you may start it or start a discussion. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by architect Andre...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature.=Place project portals= Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. ==Geographical==* Australia * Canada * Europe** Al-Andalus ** Austro-Hungarian-Empire ** Belarus ** Czech Republic-Bohemia ** Croa...
Cornwall ==Historic County of England.===== Image right - St.Piran's Flag of Cornwall - Created by Jon Harald Søby - Own work; Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects===Cornish People>===== People Connected to Cornwall >===== Cornwall Famous People ===Cornish History>===== Historical Cornwall >===== Historic Buildings of Cornwall ===Cornish Resources>===== Cornwall - Bastardy Bonds and...
see A Sümegi járás Veszprém megyéhez tartozó járás Magyarországon 2013-tól, székhelye Sümeg. Területe 306,48 km², népessége 15 390 fő, népsűrűsége pedig 50 fő/km² volt 2013 elején. 2013. július 15-én egy város (Sümeg) és 20 község tartozott hozzá.A Sümegi járás a járások 1983-as megszüntetése előtt is létezett. Az 1950-es megyerendezésig Zala vármegyéhez, azután Veszprém megyéhez tartozott, és...
Historic Buildings of Pembrokeshire ==Wales Image right - Pembroke CastleSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties
Sanderstead Court, Surrey, England====History===The building is located next to the All Saint’s Parish Church (c. 1230) in Sanderstead.The building did not appear on the Tithe map of 1844.[1]Sanderstead Court, SurreyIn 1675, the house was a three story, red brick mansion comprising a central core with two large wings at either end which were adorned with decorated chimneys. The central portion ...
Welcome to the Hungarian Portal on Geni= This Hungarian Portal has been created to: * Link together existing Hungarian projects * Encourage new Hungarian projects to be created * Encourage collaboration between Hungarian-based Geni users, and Geni users worldwide who have Hungarian interests and connections * Promote and facilitate Hungarian genealogical research * Promote Hungary, its people, ...
Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire, England= Compton Wynyates is a country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building. The Tudor period house, an example of Tudor architecture, is constructed of red brick and built around a central courtyard. It is castellated and turreted in parts. Following action in the Civil War, half timbered gables were added to replace damaged parts of the bui...
Dunham Massey Hall, Lancashire, England= Picture right attributed to National Trust Images/ Nick Meers ===Early History===The name Dunham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon dun, meaning hill. The Massey element of the name is a result of its ownership by the Massey family. The manor of Dunham is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having belonged to Aelfward, a Saxon thegn, before the Norman ...
Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, England= Hughenden Manor is a red brick Victorian mansion, located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. In the 19th century, it was the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. Today, it is owned by the National Trust and fully open to the public.The house sits on the brow of the hill to the west of the main A4128 ...
Cambridgeshire === Historical County of England.===== Image right - Flag of Historic Cambridgeshire by Hogweard - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>=====] People Connected to Cambridgeshire >=====Cambridgeshire Famous People >===== Cambridgeshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Cambridgeshire >===== Historical Buildings of Cambridgeshire
SCOTLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects====See Counties of Scotland - United Kingdom This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in SCOTLAND on Geni to discover more about your anc...
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Feature Class: Park. Park: Fort Greene Park. Location: Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets * County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add profiles to this project (actions menu > add profiles) of anyone associated with the m...
Middlesex, ===Inc. London== Histpric County of England ===Related Projects>===== Middlesex Famous People >===== London & Middlesex Genealogical Resources >===== Historic Buildings of Middlesex inc. London >===== Historical Middlesex >=====] People Connected to Middlesex >=====London - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England=The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic record, but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries...
Essex ==Historic County of England.===== Image right - Flag of Essex; by Greentubing - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>===== Essex Famous People >===== Essex Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Essex >===== Historic Buildings of Essex >===== Essex Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England= Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England , was the central site of the United Kingdom's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which during the Second World War regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.The official historian of World War II British Int...
Crewe Hall, Cheshire, England= Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire,[1] it is listed at grade I. Built in 1615–36 for Sir Randolph Crewe , it was one of the county's largest houses in the 17th century, and was said to have "brought London into Cheshire".[...
Historic Buildings of Bedfordshire England Image right - Turvey Abbey © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Bedfordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with ...
Historic Buildings of Leicestershire ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Leicestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up. Image right - Belvoir Ca...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =This project is a table of contents for all projects related to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Please see the Related Projects for details.= Over To: (Official Web Site) ==DNA projects in the Commonwealth=* Lee DNA, Commonwealth Of Virginia, USA =Native Americans in the Commonwealth=== Over To: Virginia Tribes (Official Web Site) ==== Native American T...
Hampton Court Palace, London, England= Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, in the historic county of Middlesex, and within the postal town East Molesey, Surrey. It has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century. The palace is 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of centr...
Ancient Salona This project is a part of: Croatia portal and Croatian Genealogy and other related projects. Salona (grč. Σάλωνα), antička metropola rimske provincije Dalmacije smještena na središnjem dijelu istočnojadranske obale. U antici je bila glavni grad rimske provincije, da bi u vrijeme seobe naroda bila napuštena, a poslije se istočno od razvalina antičkog grada razvio hrvatski sre...
Ashdown House, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England= Ashdown House underwent few changes through its existence until the second World War when it was requisitioned. This had a dire consequence for the house leaving it in an exceedingly poor, near derelict, condition. In 1956 it was donated to the National Trust by Cornelia, Countess of Craven . The National Trust have leased the house and recen...
Kensington Palace, London, England= Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Ken...
Kingston Lisle House, Oxfordshire, England=Ten hides in Sparsholt, afterwards called KINGSTON LISLE (Kingeston, Kyngeston Gerard, Kyngeston Lisle, xiv cent.), formed part of the royal demesne both in the reign of the Confessor and in 1086. This land, which was worth £20 and included 200 acres of meadow, remained in the possession of the Crown till the middle of the 12th century, when it was gra...
Historic Buildings of Norfolk ==England Image right - Holkham Hall >===== Image by Sean Cooper, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Norfolk, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual...
Historic Buildings of Somerset ==England Image right - Lytes Cary Manor ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Neil Kennedy and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Somerset, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those esta...
Historic Buildings of Oxfordshire ==England Image right - Blenheim Palace >===== Image By Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg: *Blenheim_Palace_2006.jpg: gailf548 from New York State, USAderivative work: Nev1 (talk)derivative work: Durova (talk) - Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg, CC BY 2.0, Wiki =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provi...
Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England= Warwick Castle (Listeni/ˈwɒrɪk/ worr-ik) is a medieval castle developed from an original built by William the Conqueror in 1068. Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England, situated on a bend of the River Avon. The original wooden motte-and-bailey castle was rebuilt in stone in the 12th century. During the Hundred Years War, the facade opposite th...
Westminster & Palace of Westminster, London, England====Ashburnham House=== Ashburnham House is an extended seventeenth-century house on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and since 1882 has been part of Westminster School. It is occasionally open to the public, when its staircase and front drawing room in particular can be seen to be superb. There has been a building on...
Places in India=The Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to th...
Norfolk - Main Page == Histopric County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Norfolk Famous People >===== Norfolk Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Norfolk >===== Historic Buildings of Norfolk >===== Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====] People Connected to Norfolk >=====Visitations of Norfolk 1563 - 1589 & 1613/57
Historic Buildings of Shropshire (Salop) ==England Image right - Apley Park , Norton >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Mat Fascione and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Shropshire, with links to sub-projects for specif...
Coton Hall, Shropshire=In the United States, the name of General Robert E. Lee is one that commands great respect - especially in the South, where he's fondly remembered as the finest Confederate general of the American Civil War.But was isn't known so widely is that General Lee's family came from Shropshire, and the family home still exists.For 500 years, the Lee family owned a sizeable chunk ...
Bearwood College, Berkshire, England=In about 1830, John Walter (1776–1847), owner of The Times newspaper, purchased the 5,000-acre (20 km2) estate in which the school is now located. His son, also called John Walter (1818–1894), employed architect Robert Kerr to build a mansion within it as his country seat. Erected 1865–74, it is one of the largest Victorian country houses in England. Nikolau...
Trewithen House, Cornwall, England=One of the most elegant examples of 18th century architecture in CornwallTrewithen House is an architectural gem that hasn’t significantly changed its outward appearance since 1715 when Philip Hawkins first bought it. Since then, ten generations of the same family have lived there.First mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 when it was owned by the Count of...
People Connected to Norfolk == Historical County of England See also>===== Norfolk - Main Page >===== Norfolk Genealogical Resources >===== Historic Buildings of Norfolk >===== Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Bampton Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image from From old Books Wood, Anthony: “The Life Of Anthony à Wood” (1772); Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA)In 1314-15, during the reign of Edward II, Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke , obtained a license from the king to “make a castle of his house at Bampton.” This is the origin of ‘Bampton Castle’ – in the days before...
Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England= Woodstock Palace Woodstock's lost royal palace[By Simon Pipe]"' Henry I kept leopards and porcupines here, and the future Elizabeth I was a prisoner in the lodge. Now, only a stone pillar near the Glyme Valley Way marks the site of a building graced by centuries of rulers. Blenheim Palace and its lake provide one of the greatest man-made spectacles in Eng...
Historic Buildings of Buckinghamshire ==England>===== Image right - Halton House in the Chiltern Hills nr. Halton, Buckinghamshire; Public Domain, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Buckinghamshire, England, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishme...
The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel, Cornwall, England The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel , started as a Cornish Long house that consisted of two cottages. Mr Thomas Nankivell bought the property and in 1761 added the Iconic Georgian frontage. When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nankivell lived there, John Opie, the renowned local painter, visited them, his sister being in service there.Ada Earland, in...
Oxfordshire - Main Page ==Historic County of EnglandThis is the Umbrella Project page for Oxfordshire===Related Projects are >=====Oxfordshire Burials - to follow>===== Oxfordshire - Famous People >===== Historic Buildings of Oxfordshire >===== Historical Oxfordshire >===== Oxfordshire Genealogical Resources >===== Oxfordshire - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards
Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, England=>>===== Image Right Geograph © Copyright Stephen G Taylor and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Bolsover Castle is a castle in Bolsover, Derbyshire, England (grid reference SK471707). It was built in the early 17th century by the Cavendish family, on the site of a medieval castle founded in the 12th century by the Peverel family. The site is now in...
Sutton Courtenay Manor, Oxfordshire, England=According to the 12th-century tradition of the house, the vill of SUTTON was given to Abingdon Abbey by King Ini (688–728). The story went on to relate how Abbot Hrethun in 801 gave 100 manentes of land here and £120 to Coenwulf, King of the Mercians, in exchange for Andersey Island. Be this as it may, Sutton remained a royal vill until the reign of ...
Stonor Manor, Oxfordshire, England= STONOR manor seems to have originated in the free tenement held by the Stonors under Pyrton manor in the 13th century and in acquisitions of land in the parish and outside made in the early 14th century. As Stonor manor formed a sub-manor of Pyrton its overlordship and mesne tenure were the same as those of the principal manor. The Stonors did suit at Pyrton....
Shotover House, Oxfordshire, England=Until 1775, when the new turnpike was constructed, the main Oxford-London road traversed Shotover Plain and brought the parish some notoriety as well as several distinguished visitors. Queen Elizabeth, for instance, arrived at Shotover Lodge after her visit to Oxford in 1566, and in 1624 Charles I stayed there and knighted his host Timothy Tyrrell the elder....
Henley Park, Oxfordshire, England= Henley Park is a country house and landscape garden in Bix and Assendon civil parish in the Chiltern Hills of South Oxfordshire, England. The house is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Henley-on-Thames. The park adjoins the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.The park was created in the 13th century as the medieval deer park of the Fawley Court Estate. In 130...
Hanwell Manor & Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Ian Rob and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . ==Manor==Before the Norman conquest of England an Anglo-Saxon called Lewin or Leofwine held the manor of Hanwell, along with those of Chinnor and Cowley. Whereas the conquering Normans dispossessed many Saxon landowners after 1066, Leofwine still held H...
Deddington Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Image Right - ("Here Bishop Odo, holding a club, gives strength to the boys" - Bishop Odo of Bayeux from the Bayeux tapestry >===== Image Public Domain, Wiki Commons Deddington Castle was a medieval fortification in the village of Deddington, Oxfordshire. It was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux following the Norman c...
Crowsley Park, Oxfordshire, England=Crowsley Park is a 160-acre[1] country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).===Crowsley Park House===Since the Second World War, Crowsley Park has been the site of a signals-receiving station used by BBC Monitoring, based at Caversham Park, three miles to the south.Crowsley Park House, a Gr...
Clatercote Priory & Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Clattercote was included in 1086 in the Bishop of Lincoln's Cropredy manor, and was probably then in the bishop's own hand, for within eighty years Bishop Chesney granted demesne land there to the small Gilbertine Priory of St. Leonard of Clattercote. The estate was described as 2½ hides in 1216 and 3 hides in 1258–62. The priory was dissolved in...
Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire, England= Compton Beauchamp In 955 King Edred gave to Alfe 8 hides in Compton, and these Alfe gave to the abbey of Abingdon. No later evidence, however, has been found to connect the place with the abbey, and in 1086 William Fitz Ansculf was holding the 5 hides at which it was then assessed. The overlordship followed the descent of his manor of Bradfield (q.v.), o...
Caversham Cell, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England=Near Reading, on the opposite side of the Thames, is Caversham, where the Earl of Cadogan, who was created baron Reading in the year 1716, built a magnissicent house, which his successor thought proper to reduce: it is now in the possession of Major Marfach. Here was a priory of black canons, cell to Notley abby in Buckinghamshire, famous for...
Wallingford Castle, Berkshire(now in Oxfordshire), England=>===== Image by Pitou250 - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons Robert D'Oyley of Liseux built Wallingford Castle, a motte and bailey affair, between 1067 & 1071. He spent much of his time acquiring land, mostly at the expense of the church. The monks of Abingdon were eventually forced to conspire against him and pray for his repentanc...
Shirburn Castle=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Colin Bates and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . Excerpt from A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8, Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1964. The church, dating perhaps from the late 11th century, is the oldest building in the village. The castle dates from the 14th ce...
Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire, (now Oxfordshire), England= Abingdon Abbey , also known as 'St Mary's Abbey was a Benedictine Monaster.===History===It is thought that the abbey was founded either by Cissa, viceroy of Centwine, king of the West Saxons , or by his nephew Hean, in honour of the Virgin Mary, for twelve Benedictine monks.During the reign of King Alfred . it was destroyed by the Danes hav...
Deanery Garden, Berkshire, England=An early C20 house by Edwin Lutyens surrounded by a contemporary formal and informal garden by Lutyens, with planting plans by Gertrude Jekyll .HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT Edward Hudson of 'Country Life' Magazine was introduced to Edward Lutyens by Gertrude Jekyll so when he bought a walled orchard in Sonning in the 1890s he was an obvious choice to employ to design ...
Blenheim Palace=>===== Image By Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg: *Blenheim_Palace_2006.jpg: gailf548 from New York State, USAderivative work: Nev1 (talk)derivative work: Durova (talk) - Blenheim_Palace_2006_cropped.jpg, CC BY 2.0, Wiki Blenheim Palace (pronounced /ˈblɛnɪm/ blen-im[1]%29 is a monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the principal residence o...
Historic Buildings of Northumberland ==England Image right - The Keep at Alnwick Castle >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Len Williams and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Northumberland, with links to sub-projects for s...
Historic Buildings of East Sussex ==England Image right - 14th Century Bodiam Castle ===== Image Geograph © Copyright J.Hannan-Briggs and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . See>===== Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Historic Buildings of West Sussex The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in East Sussex, with...
Historic Buildings of Staffordshire ==England Image right - Whitmore Hall ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Stephen Richards and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Staffordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific bu...
Surrey Main Page == Histroic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Surrey Famous People >===== Historic Buildings of Surrey >===== Historical Surrey >===== Surrey Genealogical Resources >===== Surrey Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >===== People Connected to Surrey
Yorkshire ==Historic County of EnglandThis is the Umbrella Project Page for Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Arms - image right =====Image from Yorkshire Heritage ===Related Projects>===== Yorkshire Famous People >===== Yorkshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Yorkshire >===== Historic Buildings of Yorkshire >===== Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
This is the umbrella project for the County of Cheshire===Related Projects -===== Image right Cheshire county flag - by Vexilo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons * Cheshire - Famous People >* People Connected to Cheshire >* Cheshire - Genealogical Resources >* Historical Cheshire >* Historic Buildings of Cheshire >* Monumental Inscriptions and Graveyards of Cheshire
Historic Buildings of Radnorshire, Wales Image right - An aerial view of Maesllwch Castle near Glasbury set in glorious parkland enjoying a commanding position overlooking the beautiful Wye Valley near Glasbury. (Now in Powys) Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic C...
Now a country house, formerly an Augustinian Priory, founded in the early 12th Century. Since the dissolution of the abbey in 1535 it has been owned by Thomas Hobson (at that time a few of the original arches remained); Sir George Downing (the founder of Downing College, Cambrige); and the brothers Huttleston and Henry Broughton , the 1st and 2nd Lords Fairhaven. The building and grounds were t...
Historic Buildings of Caernarfonshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Conwy Castle See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties >>>>>>>> HELP is always welcome - Please get involved!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below please share it here....
Westmorland == Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Westmorland Burials >===== Westmorland Famous People >===== Historical Westmorland >===== Historic Buildings of Westmorland >===== Westmorland Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards >===== People Connected to Westmoreland
Wolvesey Castle (Bishops Palace) Winchester, England= Wolvesey Castle was one of the greatest medieval buildings in England – the palace of the powerful and wealthy bishops of Winchester. One of the most important Norman palaces in England, it was built during a period when Winchester was second only to London as a royal and ecclesiastical centre. The palace remained in use until the 1680s, whe...
Oakhurst Cottage, Surrey, England=Oakhurst, the National Trust-owned 16th Century farm labourer’s cottage,The restoration process has unearthed much new and fascinating information about the history of the cottage, a remarkable survival of a largely-unaltered humble agricultural worker's dwelling into 21st Century Surrey.As usual, village volunteers will be responsible for showing visitors arou...
Horsley Towers, Surrey, England=This drawing of East Horsley Park in 1839 shows it as Charles Barry designed it.‘East Horsley Park’, 1839There was a small tower with an onion dome over the front door, but during alterations in the 1850s Lord Lovelace added a porch in front of this entrance and a Great Hall, or Banqueting Hall as it was sometimes called, to the right of the porch. The large wind...
Guildford Workhouse, Surrey, England=The Guildford Union workhouse was built in 1836 accommodating up to 300 inmates. The building was designed by George Gilbert Scott and his partner, William Bonython Moffatt. They designed many workhouses during this period.Vagrants made up a large proportion of most workhouse populations and were usually placed in more basic accommodation than that in the ma...
Edge Hall, Cheshire, England====Description===A country house with a timber framed core, standing on a moated site, it was encased in brick in about 1700. The front dates mainly from 1721, and there have been later alterations and additions. It has two storeys, and is in six bays, with two gables to the left of the entrance, and three to the right. The entrance is recessed, and has a brick para...
Denbies, Surrey, England=Although once a farm house, Denbies became the symbol of the success of one Jonathan Tyers, owner of the famous Vauxhall Gardens in London. The pleasure gardens, originally called New Spring Gardens, opened in 1661 but had subsequently declined until Tyers took on the tenancy of the Gardens in 1728 and, with William Hogarth (the painter), revived their fortunes after a ...
Brill Windmill, Buckinghamshire, England=Windmills have been a feature of Brill since at least the 13th century. Two fields adjacent to the Thame road are named Milldene and Millpiece, signifying connections with the earliest siting of windmills in Brill around 1250.The present windmill on Brill Common was probably erected sometime in the 1680s. Although not quite the oldest windmill in England...
Historic Buildings of Suffolk ==England Image right - Kentwell Hall , Long Melford ===== Image Creative Commons License 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Flickr John Fielding =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Suffolk, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate...
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England====History of the Hall.===Little Moreton Hall belonged to the Moreton family, a family that grew immensely rich by taking full advantage of social and religious upheavals of their times. With the decrease in population during the Black Death (1348) much land was placed on the market and was purchased cheaply by the Moretons. They were staunch loyalists and...
Admiralty House, London, Middlesex, England= Admiralty House is a four-storey building of yellow brick. The rear facade is of five bays and faces Horse Guards Parade, with a basement-level exit under the corner of the Old Admiralty Building. The front of the house faces Whitehall; its main entrance is in the corner of the Ripley Courtyard, cutting through the corner of the older Ripley Building...
The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England=>===== Imahge Geograph © Copyright David Howard and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . Written records of Sutton’s history began in AD 688 when Ine, King of Wessex , endowed the new monastery at Abingdon with the manor of Sutton. In AD 801 Sutton became a royal vill, with the monastery at Abingdon retaining th...
Charterhouse, London, England= The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Smithfield, London dating back to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square. The Charterhouse began as (and takes its name from) a Carthusian priory, founded in 1371 and dissolved in 1537. Substantial fragments remain from this monastic period, but the site was largely rebui...
Carlton House , London, Middlesex, England= Carlton House was a mansion in London, best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades from 1783. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, and its gardens abutted St. James's Park[1] in the St James's district of London. The location of the house, now replaced by Carlton House Terrace, was a main reason for the creation of John ...
Elstow Moot Hall, Befordshire, England=>>===== Image Right - License CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki Moot Hall (aka "The Green House") stands in isolation on Elstow village green. This Tudor timber-framed building was built in the 15th century, possibly by the Abbey's carpenter William Arnold, to provide both a courtroom and a market house.When first constructed, the timber frame would have been in-filled...
Hampshire - Main Page == Historic County of England =====Image right - County Flag of Hampshire . Attribution - By Hogweard - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>===== Hampshire Famous People >===== Hampshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Hampshire >===== Historic Buildings of Hampshire >===== Hampshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Arundel House, London, Middlesex, England= Arundel House , was a London town-house or palace located between the Strand and the River Thames, near St Clement Danes. It was originally the town house of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, during the Middle Ages. In 1539 it was given to William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton . It reverted to the Crown on Fitzwilliam's death and was granted in 1545 to...
This is the Umbrella Project Page for Gloucestershire England.===== Image right - Flag of Gloucestershire - by Mjpovey - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons ===Related Projects>===== Gloucestershire Famous People >===== Gloucestershire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Gloucestershire >===== Historic Buildings of Gloucestershire >===== Gloucestershire Monumental Inscriptions
Links:The History of Macclesfield By John CorryEarls and Barons of the Counties Palatinate:Geoffrey de Constantine, Stockport Castle ( 1173) Earl Hugh Lupus D'Avranches of Chester, cousin of William the Conqueror, nephew of Gerbod of Flanders Matilda of Chester Prince Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Chester Hugh BohunEarl Roger Pictavensis de Lancaster Baron Hamon de Masci William FitzNigel de Haul...
Buckingham Palace (Buckingham House) London, England= Buckingham Palace (UK /ˈbʌkɪŋəm/ /ˈpælɪs/[1][2]%29 is the London residence and principal workplace of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.[3] Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing. Origina...
Calcot Park, Berkshire, England= Calcot Park is a country house estate, situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst. It is north of the Bath Road (now part of the A4).===History=== Calcot Park , originally the manor house of Tilehurst manor with a significantly larger estate than at present is thought to have originally been bu...
Historic Buildings of Kent ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Kent, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up. Image right - Hever Castle ===== Image Geog...
Historic Buildings of The Channel Islands See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Image right - Mont Orgueil Castle or Gorey Castle , Saint Martin, Jersey - by Man vyi - Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wiki Commons
Historic Buildings of Hampshire ==England Image right - Beaulieu Palace House >===== Image - 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]The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Gloucestershire, w...
Foxhill House, Berkshire, England= Foxhill House is located in on Foxhill Drive in Whiteknights park, the grounds of Reading University in Earley. It is an excellent example of Late Victorian Gothic Revival being the masterpiece of Alfred Waterhouse who built it in 1868 for himself. The Old Whiteknights House nearby was also built b Waterhouse for his father. This is not just a red brick house,...
Historic Buildings of Monmouthshire, Wales==Historic County Image right - Ragland Castle See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties >>>>>>>> HELP is always welcome - Please get involved!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below ple...
THE HALL or HALL PLACE. Berkshire College of Agriculture, Berkshire, England=THE HALL or HALL PLACE appears to have been an estate of a family called Hurley. John de Hurley was a landholder in Hurley in the first half of the 13th century. Disputes with the prior about the payment of Peter's pence, about attendance at the prior's view of frankpledge, and about his right to take estovers in the p...
Somerset == Historic County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Somerset Famous People >===== Historical Somerset >===== Historic Buildings of Somerset >===== Somerset Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====]
Mansion House, London, England======Image Right by Arpingstone at English Wikipedia Public domain Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including an annual dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily gives a speech – his "Mansion House Speech" – about the s...