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Norfolk - Main Page == Histopric County of England. ===Related Projects>===== Norfolk Famous People >===== Norfolk Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Norfolk >===== Historic Buildings of Norfolk >===== Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards >=====] People Connected to Norfolk >=====Visitations of Norfolk 1563 - 1589 & 1613/57
Historic Buildings of Shropshire (Salop) ==England Image right - Apley Park , Norton >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Mat Fascione and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Shropshire, with links to sub-projects for specif...
Coton Hall, Shropshire=In the United States, the name of General Robert E. Lee is one that commands great respect - especially in the South, where he's fondly remembered as the finest Confederate general of the American Civil War.But was isn't known so widely is that General Lee's family came from Shropshire, and the family home still exists.For 500 years, the Lee family owned a sizeable chunk ...
Bearwood College, Berkshire, England=In about 1830, John Walter (1776–1847), owner of The Times newspaper, purchased the 5,000-acre (20 km2) estate in which the school is now located. His son, also called John Walter (1818–1894), employed architect Robert Kerr to build a mansion within it as his country seat. Erected 1865–74, it is one of the largest Victorian country houses in England. Nikolau...
Trewithen House, Cornwall, England=One of the most elegant examples of 18th century architecture in CornwallTrewithen House is an architectural gem that hasn’t significantly changed its outward appearance since 1715 when Philip Hawkins first bought it. Since then, ten generations of the same family have lived there.First mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 when it was owned by the Count of...
Bampton Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image from From old Books Wood, Anthony: “The Life Of Anthony à Wood” (1772); Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA)In 1314-15, during the reign of Edward II, Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke , obtained a license from the king to “make a castle of his house at Bampton.” This is the origin of ‘Bampton Castle’ – in the days before...
Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England= Woodstock Palace Woodstock's lost royal palace[By Simon Pipe]"' Henry I kept leopards and porcupines here, and the future Elizabeth I was a prisoner in the lodge. Now, only a stone pillar near the Glyme Valley Way marks the site of a building graced by centuries of rulers. Blenheim Palace and its lake provide one of the greatest man-made spectacles in Eng...
Historic Buildings of Buckinghamshire ==England>===== Image right - Halton House in the Chiltern Hills nr. Halton, Buckinghamshire; Public Domain, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Buckinghamshire, England, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishme...
The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel, Cornwall, England The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel , started as a Cornish Long house that consisted of two cottages. Mr Thomas Nankivell bought the property and in 1761 added the Iconic Georgian frontage. When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nankivell lived there, John Opie, the renowned local painter, visited them, his sister being in service there.Ada Earland, in...
Oxfordshire - Main Page ==Historic County of EnglandThis is the Umbrella Project page for Oxfordshire===Related Projects are >=====Oxfordshire Burials - to follow>===== Oxfordshire - Famous People >===== Historic Buildings of Oxfordshire >===== Historical Oxfordshire >===== Oxfordshire Genealogical Resources >===== Oxfordshire - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards
Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, England=>>===== Image Right Geograph © Copyright Stephen G Taylor and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Bolsover Castle is a castle in Bolsover, Derbyshire, England (grid reference SK471707). It was built in the early 17th century by the Cavendish family, on the site of a medieval castle founded in the 12th century by the Peverel family. The site is now in...
Sutton Courtenay Manor, Oxfordshire, England=According to the 12th-century tradition of the house, the vill of SUTTON was given to Abingdon Abbey by King Ini (688–728). The story went on to relate how Abbot Hrethun in 801 gave 100 manentes of land here and £120 to Coenwulf, King of the Mercians, in exchange for Andersey Island. Be this as it may, Sutton remained a royal vill until the reign of ...
Stonor Manor, Oxfordshire, England= STONOR manor seems to have originated in the free tenement held by the Stonors under Pyrton manor in the 13th century and in acquisitions of land in the parish and outside made in the early 14th century. As Stonor manor formed a sub-manor of Pyrton its overlordship and mesne tenure were the same as those of the principal manor. The Stonors did suit at Pyrton....
Shotover House, Oxfordshire, England=Until 1775, when the new turnpike was constructed, the main Oxford-London road traversed Shotover Plain and brought the parish some notoriety as well as several distinguished visitors. Queen Elizabeth, for instance, arrived at Shotover Lodge after her visit to Oxford in 1566, and in 1624 Charles I stayed there and knighted his host Timothy Tyrrell the elder....
Henley Park, Oxfordshire, England= Henley Park is a country house and landscape garden in Bix and Assendon civil parish in the Chiltern Hills of South Oxfordshire, England. The house is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Henley-on-Thames. The park adjoins the county boundary with Buckinghamshire.The park was created in the 13th century as the medieval deer park of the Fawley Court Estate. In 130...
Hanwell Manor & Castle, Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Ian Rob and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . ==Manor==Before the Norman conquest of England an Anglo-Saxon called Lewin or Leofwine held the manor of Hanwell, along with those of Chinnor and Cowley. Whereas the conquering Normans dispossessed many Saxon landowners after 1066, Leofwine still held H...
Deddington Castle, Oxfordshire, England= Image Right - ("Here Bishop Odo, holding a club, gives strength to the boys" - Bishop Odo of Bayeux from the Bayeux tapestry >===== Image Public Domain, Wiki Commons Deddington Castle was a medieval fortification in the village of Deddington, Oxfordshire. It was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux following the Norman c...
Crowsley Park, Oxfordshire, England=Crowsley Park is a 160-acre[1] country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).===Crowsley Park House===Since the Second World War, Crowsley Park has been the site of a signals-receiving station used by BBC Monitoring, based at Caversham Park, three miles to the south.Crowsley Park House, a Gr...
Clatercote Priory & Manor, Oxfordshire, England= Clattercote was included in 1086 in the Bishop of Lincoln's Cropredy manor, and was probably then in the bishop's own hand, for within eighty years Bishop Chesney granted demesne land there to the small Gilbertine Priory of St. Leonard of Clattercote. The estate was described as 2½ hides in 1216 and 3 hides in 1258–62. The priory was dissolved in...
Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire, England= Compton Beauchamp In 955 King Edred gave to Alfe 8 hides in Compton, and these Alfe gave to the abbey of Abingdon. No later evidence, however, has been found to connect the place with the abbey, and in 1086 William Fitz Ansculf was holding the 5 hides at which it was then assessed. The overlordship followed the descent of his manor of Bradfield (q.v.), o...
Caversham Cell, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England=Near Reading, on the opposite side of the Thames, is Caversham, where the Earl of Cadogan, who was created baron Reading in the year 1716, built a magnissicent house, which his successor thought proper to reduce: it is now in the possession of Major Marfach. Here was a priory of black canons, cell to Notley abby in Buckinghamshire, famous for...
Wallingford Castle, Berkshire(now in Oxfordshire), England=>===== Image by Pitou250 - Own work, Public Domain, Wiki Commons Robert D'Oyley of Liseux built Wallingford Castle, a motte and bailey affair, between 1067 & 1071. He spent much of his time acquiring land, mostly at the expense of the church. The monks of Abingdon were eventually forced to conspire against him and pray for his repentanc...
Shirburn Castle=>===== Image Geograph © Copyright Colin Bates and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . Excerpt from A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8, Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1964. The church, dating perhaps from the late 11th century, is the oldest building in the village. The castle dates from the 14th ce...
Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire, (now Oxfordshire), England= Abingdon Abbey , also known as 'St Mary's Abbey was a Benedictine Monaster.===History===It is thought that the abbey was founded either by Cissa, viceroy of Centwine, king of the West Saxons , or by his nephew Hean, in honour of the Virgin Mary, for twelve Benedictine monks.During the reign of King Alfred . it was destroyed by the Danes hav...
Deanery Garden, Berkshire, England=An early C20 house by Edwin Lutyens surrounded by a contemporary formal and informal garden by Lutyens, with planting plans by Gertrude Jekyll .HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT Edward Hudson of 'Country Life' Magazine was introduced to Edward Lutyens by Gertrude Jekyll so when he bought a walled orchard in Sonning in the 1890s he was an obvious choice to employ to design ...