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Peper Harow Manor, Surrey, England= PEPER HAROW was held by Alward under Edward the Confessor, and after the Conquest came into the possession of Walter, Governor of Windsor Castle, son of Other, ancestor of the Windsors, to whose honour of Windsor the overlordship of the manor belonged. The actual tenant of Peper Harow in 1086 was a certain Girard, one of whose successors, Osbert of Peper Haro...
Historic Buildings of Flintshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Rhuddlan Castle See Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties
Historic Buildings of Denbighshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Denbigh CastleSee Table of Welsh Place names (Table listing where places are in Current [Post 1974/1996] Welsh Counties/Historic Counties ==HELP is always welcome!! If you have information about any of the Buildings mentioned below please share it here. If you have ancestors linked ...
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Warwickshire, England= The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the British playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is located in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon – Shakespeare's birthplace – in the English Midlands, beside the River Avon. The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re...
Boyle Farm, Surrey, England====This Large and Very Elegant House ===Over two hundred years ago, Hannah More, the writer and evangelist, visited Boyle Farm and immediately reached for her pen to tell her sister: "I was never so astonished as to see this large and very elegant house". This visit, as we shall see, she was pleased to repeat on several subsequent occasions.The house she so admired h...
Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, England=Pictured right Buscot South Front Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend . It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell , an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later ...
Botleys Mansion, Surrey, England= Botleys Mansion is a Palladian mansion house in the south of Chertsey, Surrey, England. The house was built in the 1760s by builders funded by Joseph Mawbey and to designs by Kenton Couse. The elevated site once bore a 14th century manor house seized along with all the other manors of Chertsey from Chertsey Abbey, a very rich abbey, under Henry VIII's Dissoluti...
Launceston Castle, Cornwall, England= Launceston Castle (Cornish: Kastell Lannstefan) is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.===Early history===The castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle raised by Robert, Count of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman conquest, possibly as early as 1067. Others attribute its foundation to Br...
Queen's House, Greenwich, London, England= The Queen's House, Greenwich , is a former royal residence built between 1616–1635 in Greenwich, then a few miles downriver from London, and now a district of the city. Its architect was Inigo Jones, for whom it was a crucial early commission, for Anne of Denmark, the queen of King James I of England. The Queen's House is one of the most important buil...
Pitzhanger Manor, London, England= Pitzhanger Manor House, in Ealing (west London), was owned from 1800 to 1810 by the architect John Soane, who radically rebuilt it. Soane intended it as a country villa for entertaining and eventually for passing to his elder son. He demolished most of the existing building except the two-storey south wing built in 1768 by George Dance, who had been his first ...
The History of Eling Tide Mill, Hampshire, England====Introduction=== Eling Tide Mill is a water mill that harnesses the power of the tide to grind wheat into wholemeal flour. Situated on the edge of Southampton Water beside the renowned New Forest, there has been a mill on the site for over 900 years, although it has had to be rebuilt several times, with the current building being some 230 yea...
Chawton House, Hampshire, England= Chawton was the site of an ancient settlement dating back to the New Stone Age period. The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the manor with ploughed and wooded land belonged to Oda, a Hampshire thane, during the time of Edward the Confessor. Following the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror made Oda surrender Chawton to his Norman follower, Hugh de Port. D...
Ince Manor/Grange, Cheshire, England= Ince Manor or Ince Grange i s a former monastic grange in the village of Ince in Cheshire, England. The remains of the manor house, consisting of the old hall, and the monastery cottages are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and a scheduled monument[2][3] It is one of only two surviving monastic m...
Broadlands, Hampshire, England=The original manor and area known as Broadlands has belonged to Romsey Abbey since before the time of the 11th-century English Norman Conquest.After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Broadlands was sold to Sir Francis Fleming in 1547. His daughter married Edward St. Barbe, and the manor remained the property of the St. Barbe family for the next 117 years. Sir Jo...
Updown Court, Surrey, England Updown Court (grid reference SU944641) is a Californian style residence situated in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England. The 103-room mansion has 58 acres (230,000 m2) of landscaped gardens and private woodland. It was, in 2005, the most expensive private home on the market anywhere in the world, having been listed for sale with estate agencies Savills and...
Shene Manor, Surrey, England=Originally part of the Royal Manor of Kingston, Shene (with Kew) was formed into a separate manor by Henry I, who granted it to the Norman family of Belet. It remained in lay hands until the manor house was rented by Edward, Prince of Wales, in the 1290’s. The manor reverted to Crown ownership by 1313.Edward I and Edward II used it occasionally, then it was granted ...
Titsey Place is an English country house near Oxted in Surrey, England. It was successively the seat of the Gresham and Leveson-Gower families and is now preserved by a charitable trust for the nation.=Titsey Place, Surrey, England=The house has its origins in a 16th-century house, which was built by Sir John Gresham on the site of a predecessor. The mostly Tudor house was demolished and rebuil...
Gawsworth Halls & Rectory, Cheshire, England=In their Buildings of England: Cheshire, Pevsner and Hubbard evoke the timeless setting of one of the county’s most enchanting villages in a few well-chosen words: ‘There is nothing in Cheshire to compare with the loveliness of Gawsworth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic la...
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...
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...
Gunnersbury Park, London, England= Gunnersbury Park is a park in Brentford, West London, England. Purchased for the nation from the Rothschild family, it was opened to the public by Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health, on 21 May 1926. The park is currently jointly managed by Ealing and Hounslow borough councils.[1]==History=====Private use===The name Gunnersbury derives from Gunylda, t...
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...
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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...