Please wait.
loading...
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...
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 ....
Kirtlington Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Kirtlington was a royal manor in the time of Edward the Confessor, and was presumably already a hundredal manor in the 10th century. It is first mentioned in 945, when a payment was made there to the king, and in 977 Edward the Martyr held a witenagemot there at which Archbishop Dunstan was present. 'CHERIELINTONE' appears in Domesday Book as an importan...
St. Giles House, Dorset, England= St Giles House is located on the Shaftesbury Estate in Wimborne St Giles in East Dorset in England, just south of Cranborne Chase. This is the ancestral home and centre of business of the Ashley-Coopers, also known as the Earls of Shaftesbury, who are a conservative, aristocratic family that owns a large estate, including over 5,500 acres (22 km2), along with p...
Milton Manor House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England=Marjorie Mockler moved back into the house after the Second World War. It had stood empty for many years between the two wars. Between 1939 and 1945 the house had been occupied by the RAF and as a result was in a state of considerable dilapidation. Most of the original furniture had been sold in the 1911 sale including, alas, the beds that Will...
Historic Buildings of Cumberland ==England===Today Cumbria ...(embracing Westmorland and parts of Lancashire) Image right - Holker Hall >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Barbara Carr and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cumbria/Cumberland, with links to sub-projects for specific bu...
The Vyne, Hampshire, England=The estate known up to the beginning of the 16th century as the manor of SHERBORNE or SHERBORNE COUDRAY and subsequently as THE VYNE formed part of the manor of Sherborne St. John until the reign of Henry II, when John de Port grandson of Hugh de Port granted it to William Fitz Adam to hold of him and his heirs as of the manor of Sherborne St. John by the service of...
The Wakes, Selborne, Hampshire, England=The origin of The Wakes is a C16 hall building, its name coming from the Wakes family who probably occupied it in the C16 and C17 (Scott 1950). Gilbert White's grandfather acquired it at the beginning of the C18, probably as a dower house for his wife. From 1751, while a curate in and around Selborne and the house in the ownership of his father, Gilbert W...
Netley Abbey, Hampshire, England= The abbey of Netley , Letley (Lœtus Locus), or Edwardstow (Loci Sancti Edwardi), dedicated to the honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. Edward the Confessor, was founded for Cistercian monks by Henry III. in 1239. It appears that Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester (1205-38), purchased the land of ' Hanseta ' and ' Cedrigia' from William, Bishop of Angers, an...
Sarsden House, Oxfordshire, England= Sarsden House , near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, was rebuilt by William Walter in 1689 after a major fire. In 1792 James Langston inherited the house and commissioned Humphry Repton to carry out some remodelling and to landscape the grounds. In 1823-25 Repton’s architect son George Stanley made further alteration for the younger James Langston.The house is...
Apsley House, Number One, London, England= Apsley House , also known as Number One, London, is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch. It is a Grade I listed building.The house is now run by English Heritage and ...
Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England= Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor of the village of Oatlands in Surrey, England. Little remains of the original building, so excavations of the palace took place in 1964 to rediscover its extent.===The palace===Much of the foundation stone for the palace came from Chertsey Abbey which fell into ru...
Colshaw Hall, Cheshire, England= Colshaw Hall is a large house in Peover Superior, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The house was built in 1903 and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Minshull. It is constructed in red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. It has two storeys plus an attic. Its...
Avington Park & Manor, Hampshire, England= Avington Park , with its fine stretches of undulating country and its magnificent trees, described by Cobbett in 1830 as 'one of the very prettiest spots in the world,' covers nearly the whole of the north of the parish, extending over about 300 acres. Avington House, the seat of the Shelley family, stands almost in the heart of the woodland. The weste...
Clonterbrook House, Cheshire, England= Clonterbrook House is a former manor house in the parish of Swettenham, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1697 for Jeffery and Katherine Lockett. It passed from the Lockett family in 1769, but was bought by Derek and Elizabeth Lockett in 1939. They restored the house in 1949.[1] The house is constructed in brick, and it has a stone-slate roof. There are t...
Hyde Abbey, Hampshire, England= Hyde Abbey was a medieval Benedictine monastery just outside the walls of Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was dissolved and demolished in 1539.===History===At the time Alfred the Great refounded the royal city of Winchester about 880 AD, the Saxon cathedral and the royal palace stood at the heart of the city. As the city grew, land was purchased in the city in...
Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, England= The palace of Bishop's Waltham was originally built by Henry de Blois bishop of Winchester during the twelfth century, and was shortly afterwards the scene of two important councils: in 1182 when the barons met Henry II and granted him supplies for the second crusade; and in 1194 when Richard I held a council here preparatory to his last expedition to France...
Northington Grange, Hampshire, England=Six hides at NORTHINGTON were named in the almost certainly spurious charter of Edward the Elder to the New Minster.In the Domesday Survey it is difficult to distinguish Northington from the other lands of the abbey in Micheldever Hundred. It may, perhaps, have been identical with the six hides held by Alsi and his father before him. In the fourteenth cent...