Great Fosters, Surrey, England=Within Egham, Great Fosters is by far the finest relic of antiquity of the parishand is considered as ranking fifth within the county of Surrey as a specimen of domestic architecture being only surpassed by Sutton, Loseley, Ham and Beddington.During the Middle Ages, the immediate vicinity of Great Fosters was known as the manor of Imworth and there is evidence tha...
Clarence House, London, England Clarence House is a royal residence in London, situated on The Mall, in the City of Westminster. It is attached to St. James's Palace and shares the palace's garden. For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[1] It has since been the official residence of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Clar...
Northumberland House (Suffolk House), London, England= Northumberland House (also known as Suffolk House when owned by the Earls of Suffolk) was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, which was so called because for most of its history it was the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and one of England's richest and most prominent aristocrati...
Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire, England===The History of Eynsham Hall==On this site for over 300 years has stood one of Oxfordshire’s great country houses. It originated from one landowner’s efforts to keep up with the wealth and times of the early 1700s. Willoughby Lacey enclosed vast acres of his land to create his own pleasure parkland. At the heart of this was the newly built Eynsham Manor, a ty...
Derbyshire ===== Image right - Flag of Derbyshire - by Dyfsunctional at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, Wiki Commons ==Historic County of England. ===== Derbyshire Famous People >===== Derbyshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Derbyshire >===== Historic Buildings of Derbyshire >===== Derbyshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Ardington House, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)= ARDINGTON was held during the reign of Edward the Confessor by two freemen, Edvin, whose holding inlcuded a Mill worth 11s and 26 acres of meadow, and Sawin. In 1086 both their estates had passed to Robert Doyley , of whose honour of Wallingford they were subsequently held as one knight's fee.The second and larger holding had two mills, one of which...
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Huntingdonshire == Historic County of England.===Related Projects>=====] People Connected to Huntingdonshire >=====Huntingdonshire Famous People >===== Huntingdonshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Huntingdonshire >===== Historic Buildings of Huntingdonshire >===== Huntingdonshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Portchester Castle, Hampshire, England=The history of the Roman fortress of Portchester has been already given, so far as it can be ascertained. In Domesday there is mention of a 'halla,' but nothing to suggest that the place was of particular importance. Although the mediaeval castle was commenced early in the twelfth century, there is no reference to it until 1153, when it was granted by char...
West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, England= West Wycombe Park is a country house near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, built between 1740 and 1800. It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th-century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet. The house is a long rectangle with four façades that are columned and pedimented, three theatrically so. ...
Ashridge House, Hertfordshire= Ashridge is a country estate and stately home in Hertfordshire , England in the United Kingdom; part of the land stretches into Buckinghamshire and it is close to the Bedfordshire border. It is situated in the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Berkhamsted and 20 miles (32 km) north west of London. Surrounding vi...
Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, England= Arbury Hall (grid reference SP335893) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate families. =====Image right Arbury Hall from Morris's Country Seats (1880) . Attribution: In the Public Dpmain in its country of origin and other countr...
Hurst Castle, Hampshire, England= Hurst Castle in Hampshire on the south coast of England is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, built at the end of a long shingle spit at the west end of the Solent to guard the approaches to Southampton. Hurst Castle was sited at the narrow entrance to the Solent where the ebb and flow of the tides creates strong currents, putting would-be invaders at its mercy....
Ashley Hall=The Grade II listed Ashley Hall dates from the late 16th century and has been linked to stories of a ghostly White Lady. T Ottway, in his 'News from the invisible world: A collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living (1853)' gives an account of a ghost at a place named Ashley Park. As seen below, John Ingram in 'The Hau...