Historic Buildings of Dorset ==England Image right - Athelhampton Hall , Dorchester, Dorset>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Sarah Smith and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Dorset, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated wi...
Charney Manor, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= CHARNEY (Ceornei, ?ix cent.; Cernei, xi cent.; Cerneia, xii cent.; Cerneye, xiii cent.; Cherney, xvi cent.) is included in the forged list of lands supposed to have been granted to Abbot Rethune by Kenulf, King of Mercia , in 811, (fn. 54) and it is also named in another spurious charter ascribed to the same king dated 821. (fn. 55) At the ti...
Carclew House, Cornwall, England= Carclew House , one of Britain's lost houses, was a large Palladian country house near Mylor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was situated at grid reference SW 787 380 approximately three miles north of Falmouth.[1]Carclew House was rebuilt in the 18th century and again in the early 19th century but was destroyed by fire in 1934.[2]===Design and constru...
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England=>>===== Image Right - © Copyright Nigel Cox and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Wrest Park is a country estate located near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.===History===Thomas Carew (1595–1...
Bedfordshire - Main Page ===== Image right - Flag of Bedfordshire - by Lookesmiley - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons This is the Umbrella Project Page for Bedfordshire, England.===RelatedProjects>===== Bedfordshire Burials >===== Bedfordshire Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >===== People Connected to Bedfordshire >===== Befordshire Famous People >===== Befordshire Geneal...
Harltey Mauditt, Ghost town, Hampshire, England=There is no sign of a Saxon church but within fifty years of William the Conqueror arriving on these shores, a church had been built at Hartley Mauditt. The name Hartley Mauditt comes from two periods. Hartley has a probable Saxon origin, meaning a woodland clearing frequented by stags and there are several of these in Hampshire, Hartley Wespall a...
Astley Hall, Lancashire, England= Image right © Copyright David Hignett and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Astley Hall is a country house in Chorley, Lancashire, England. The hall is now owned by the town and is known as Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery. The extensive landscaped grounds are now Chorley's Astley Park.===History===The site was acquired in the 15th cent...
Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, England= Braziers Park is a country house and Grade II* listed building at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, England. The house is owned and operated by a charitable trust as a residential adult education college, and centre for the School of Integrative Social Research.===History===Braziers Park was built in the late 17th century (with a datestone of 1688), and modelled in the S...
Hertford House - The Wallace Collection, London, England= Herford House - The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in 1897 from the private c...
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, England= Hartwell House is a country house in the village of Hartwell in Buckinghamshire, southern England. The house is part of the Hartwell Estate owned by the Ernest Cook Trust, and since 2008 has been leased to The National Trust. It is a grade I listed building,[1] and is currently used as a hotel.===Location===The house is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of t...
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, England=>>===== Image Right © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph Woburn Abbey (occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along wi...
Bruce Castle (The Lordship House), Tottenham, London, England= Bruce Castle (formerly the Lordship House) is a Grade I listed 16th-century[1] manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site of an earlier building, about which little is known, the current house is one of the olde...
Forty Hall, London, England= Forty Hall is a manor house of the 1620s in Forty Hill in Enfield, north London. The house, a Grade I listed building, is today used as a museum by the London Borough of Enfield. Within the grounds is the site of the former Tudor Elsyng Palace.===Location===Forty Hall is located in the north of the London Borough of Enfield, the northernmost borough of London. The h...
Bradwell Grove Manor House, Oxfordshire, England= Now The Cotsold Wildlife Park In 1804 the estate's owner William Hervey had the current Manor House designed by William Atkinson and built by Richard Pace of Lechlade , in the then fashionable Georgian Gothic style. This followed the example of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's masterpiece at Twickenham. The house replaced an original 17th centu...
Kent - Main Page ==Historical County of EnglandThis is the Umbrella Project Page for Kent England===Related Projects>===== Kent Burials >===== Kent - Famous People >===== Kent -Genealogical Resources >===== Kent Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards >===== Historic Buildings of Kent >===== Historical Kent >===== People Connected to Kent
Bicester Priory, Oxfordshire, England=Although there is no chartulary of the Austin priory of Bicester, yet more than fifty of the original charters are preserved at the British Museum and the Record Office, of which Bishop Kennett has printed the most important. Among them is what appears to be the foundation charter, in which Gilbert Basset grants to John, prior of Bicester, various messuages...
Alfreton Hall, Derbyshire, England= Alfreton Hall is a country house in Alfreton, Derbyshire. It was at the heart of local social and industrial history in the county. The history of the estate goes back to Norman times, but by the 17th century it was owned by the Morewood family, who were linked to local industry, mainly in coal mining.The original hall was on the site of Hall Farm to the east...
Historic Buildings of Glamorganshire, WalesSee Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page Image right - Caerphilly 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 h...
Coley Park, Berkshire, England= Coley Park was the home of the Vachell Family from 1309 until 1727. The family maxim, Tis better to Suffer than to Revenge, is said to have come from an incident which took place here in the 14th century. John Vachell was in dispute with the Abbot of Reading over rights of way through the former's estate. The Abbot sent a monk to test his rights with a load of co...
Ely Place, London, England= Ely Place is a gated road at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. It is the location of the historic Ye Olde Mitre public house and is adjacent to Hatton Garden. It is the last privately owned street in London, having been originally set up as an exclave of Cambridgeshire for the Bishops of Ely, and is managed to this day by its own bo...
THE ABBEY OF BRUERN Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image right by Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki Commons The Cistercian abbey of Bruern was founded by Nicholas Basset in 1147. (fn. 1) Unfortunately no chartulary is extant, (fn. 2) but many of the original deeds are preserved at the Record Office, (fn. 3) and a few at the British Museum and the Bodleian Library; we have also valuable confirmat...
Prideux Place, Cornwall, England= Prideaux Place is a grade I listed[2] Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a distinguished lawyer,[3] and was enlarged and modified by successive generations, most notably by his great-great-grandson...
Horley and Hornton Manors, Oxfordshire, England= Hornton was not mentioned in Domesday Book but clearly was included under Horley , where there were 2 large and 2 small estates in 1086. One 10-hide estate, held by Berenger de Todeni and of him by Ralph , had been held before the Conquest by Queen Edith and Turgot the law man (lageman) . (fn. 49) Like another of Berenger's estates, Hutton Bardol...
Kings Head Inn, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England= The King's Head Inn is one of the oldest public houses with a coaching yard in the south of England. It is located in the Market Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.The oldest part of the current structure of the building is of 15th-century design;[1] however, the cellars are much older, dating back to the 13th century,[2] and may have been pa...
Hampden House, Buckinghamshire, England= Hampden House is a country house in the village of Great Hampden, between Great Missenden and Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It is named after the Hampden family. The Hampdens (later Earls of Buckinghamshire) are recorded as owning the site from before the Norman conquest. They lived continually in the house until 1938.===Early history===The core...