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Rycote Manor, Oxfordshire, EnglandRycote Park, near Thame in Oxfordshire, was the site of a mansion originally built in Tudor times for Sir Richard Fowler, Giles Heron or John, Baron Williams of Thame - which one is not known. It was almost completely demolished in June 1807 and all that remains today is part of the south-west tower. The fourteenth-century Rycote Chapel, built for the medieval ...
Castles of Cornwall, England= pictured right: St. Mawes Castle, Cornwall See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page See also Historic Buildings of Cornwall Project
Caversham Park & Caversham Manor, Oxfordshire (Now Berkshire), England===Caversham Park== Caversham Park , located in the Reading suburb of Caversham, originally a part of Oxfordshire but since 1911 has been in Berkshire, is a Victorian stately home but its history goes back at least as far as Norman times when after the conquest, William the Conqueror gave the estate, then called Caversham Man...
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, England= Tintagel Castle ( Cornish: Dintagel, meaning "fort of the constriction") is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, as an array of artefacts dating to this period have been found on the pen...
Tilehurst Manor, Berkshire, England= The manor of TILEHURST is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but it is possible that it was included with other hamlets in the manor of Reading. This seems more probable, since in 1291 Tilehurst is enumerated among the hamlets of Reading. Tilehurst came into the possession of Reading Abbey before the 13th century, and the manor was held by the abbey until...
Curbridge Workhouse, Oxfordshire, England=In the township's eastern part the Union workhouse was built in 1835–6 on the later Tower Hill.the branch road was variously called Union Hill, from the workhouse of 1836, Razor Hill, from stone-cutting machinery in the adjacent quarries, and finally Tower Hill, from the water tower built at its north end in 1903.==1881 Census: Residents of Union Workho...
Winchester Palace, London, England= Winchester Palace, Southwark in London , was a twelfth-century palace which served as the London townhouse of the Bishops of Winchester.[1][2] It was located on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Southwark, near the medieval priory which later became Southwark Cathedral. Remains of the demolished palace survive on the site today.===Hi...
Thame Workhouse, Oxfordshire, England===1881 Census: Residents of Thame Union Workhouse, Priest End, Thame, Oxford, England== Name Mar Age Sex Relation Occupation Handicap Birthplace ===Staff===George SIMMONDS M 55 M Head Master Of Workhouse Cricklade, WiltshireRhoda SIMMONDS M 56 F Wife Matron Of Workhouse Childrey, BerkshireGeorge SIMMONDS U 26 M Nephew Porter Of Workhouse (Munic) Cricklade, ...
Chipping Norton Workhouse, Oxfordshire, England===1881 Census: Residents of Union Work House, Rock Hill, Chipping Norton, Oxford== Name Mar Age Sex Relation Occupation Handicap Birthplace ===Staff===William WEBB M 31 M Head Master Of Workhouse (Munic) Stourton, WarwickSophia WEBB M 35 F Wife Matron Of Workhouse (Munic) Liverpool, LancashireElizabeth WELSH U 29 F Officer Schoolmistress At Workho...
Denman College, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England=(Formerly known as Marcham Park) Denman College , is a residential adult education college centred on Marcham Park at Marcham in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire).Founded by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) in 1948, Denman offers day schools and residential courses in cookery, craft and lifestyle.===Ma...
Park Place, Berkshire,England= Park Place is a historic Grade II Listed country house and gardens in the civil parish of Remenham in Berkshire, England, set in large grounds above the River Thames near Henley, Oxfordshire.===History===Lord Archibald Hamilton bought the estate in 1719 from Mrs Elizabeth Baker and built a new villa on the site.Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of King George III...
Osterley Park, London, England= Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It is in the London Borough of Hounslow, part of the western suburbs of London.When the house was built it was surrounded by rural countryside. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but were not true country houses on large agric...
Lambeth Palace, London, England= Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, in north Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames, 400 m[1] south-east of the Palace of Westminster which has the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank. The building – originally called the Manor of Lambeth or Lambeth House – has been the London residence of the...
Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, England= Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house located in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of Stowe School, an independent school and is owned by the Stowe House Restoration Trust who have to date (March 2013) spent more than £25m on the restoration of the house. The gardens (known as Stowe Landscape Gardens), a significant example of the Eng...
Padworth Manor, Berkshire, England=The earliest mention of PADWORTH occurs in 956, when 5 cassates of land there were granted by King Edwy to his man Eadric.t is possible that this estate afterwards became the larger manor of Padworth, which was held by three thegns in parage in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and was in 1086 the property of Stephen son of Eirard. The manor was held of the k...
Culham Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Culham Manor is a historic manor house in Culham, near Abingdon in southern Oxfordshire, England.In 2003, the house, set in 11 acres (4.5 ha) of grounds, was for sale for GBP 2.5 million.[1]===History===Circa 1420 a religious guild financed the building of Abingdon Bridge, and the 'old' bridge at Culham. The Manor House, originally a medieval barn held of the...
Stowe Landscape Gardens & Monuments, Buckinghamshire, England===The history of the gardens==In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape Garden was created in three main phases, showing...
Rousham House, Oxfordshire, England= Rousham House (also known as Rousham Park) is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England. The house, which has been continuously in the ownership of one family, was built circa 1635 and remodeled by William Kent in the 18th century in a free Gothic style. Further alterations were carried out in the 19th century.===History===In the 1630s Sir Robert Do...
Oakley Court, Berkshire, England=Remarkably little is known about the property despite the fact that it was built over 120 years ago. Oakley Court is situated along a stretch of the Thames known as Water Oakley. It was first shown on maps around 1800 and the name appears to originate from Cornish Breton in which it appears as "Warhta Eog Lee" — The Upper Salmon Place.The Court was originally bu...
Hankelow Hall, Cheshire, England=The present house dates from the early 18th century, and was remodelled by William Baker in about 1755. It was built for Gabriel Wettenhall, and altered for his son, Nathaniel. During the 20th century the house was uninhabited and it became neglected. In 1989 it was bought by a property developer who has been restoring it. In this process, evidence was found of ...
Monkey Island, Bray, Berkshire, England====Early History===Monkey Island has been in use since at least the twelfth century. Monks resided at Merton Priory at Amerden Bank, a moated site on Bray Lock on the Buckinghamshire bank of the river, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century. The monks used the island during their fishing activities from 1197. According to some a...
Blackden Hall & Toad Hall, Blackden, Cheshire, England=There seems to be litte written about Blackden Hall in Cheshire however there were, it seems two (at least) one referred to as 'old Hall' (Toad Hall) when the second was built. The pictures might suggest even more than two...===Structure===The south west elevation of Toad Hall has been rebuilt in brick, but the surviving timber frame is of ...
Phyllis Court, Oxfordshire, England=The present-day Phyllis Court is a stuccoed, Italianate mansion house on Henley's northern edge, built in the early 1840s. Set amidst sloping lawns which sweep attractively down to the Thames, it has been an up-market country club since 1906.But the site itself is much older. Circumstantial evidence suggests that there may have been a small royal manor house ...
Nuneham House, Oxfordshire, England= Nuneham House is a Palladian villa, at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire England. It was built for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt in 1756. It is owned by Oxford University and is currently used as a retreat centre by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. It is a Grade II* listed building.Lord Harcourt demolished the old village in the 1760s in ord...
Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England=The County Hall, the great Hall of Winchester where the first Parliaments of England were held, is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where Henry I was married to Maud of Scotland and their son William Atheling was born, where Henry III was born, where Arthur son of Henry VII was born, where Henry VIII entertain...