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Bank Hall, Lancashire, England= Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. The hall was built on the site of an older house in 1608 by the Banastres who were lords of the manor. The hall was extended during the 18th and 19th centuries. Extensions were built for George Anthony Legh Keck in 1832–1833, to the design of the architect Georg...
Haigh Hall, Lancashire, England= Haigh Hall is a historic country house in Haigh, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1827 and 1840 by James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres , it replaced an ancient manor house and was the Lindsay family's home until 1947, when it was sold to the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. The hall is recorded in the National Heritage Lis...
Manor of Alverton, Cornwall, Engalnd= The Manor of Alverton was a former manorial estate located in the hundred of Penwith, west Cornwall, England, UK.===History===The first historical details of the manor were recorded in the Domesday book which stated that before the Norman conquest the manor was owned by a Saxon lord known as Alward.[1] There were 3 hides of land but Alward had paid tax only...
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, England= Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed[1] country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, in the care of the charitable National Trust.[2]The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.The h...
Allerton Hall, Lancashire, England= Allerton Hall is in Clarkes Gardens, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1]===History===During the medieval period the manor of Allerton was held by the Lathom family.[2]During her long widowhood, Elizabeth Lathom(née Legh) the wife of Richard Lathom (156...
Newcastle House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England=Newcastle House is a mansion in Lincoln's Inn Fields in central London, England. It was one of the two largest houses built in London's largest square during its development in the 17th century, the other being Lindsey House. It is the northernmost house on the western side of the square.The house had a complex history. The first version wa...
Milton Abbey, Dorset, England= Milton Abbey school is an independent school for day and boarding pupils in the village of Milton Abbas, near Blandford Forum in Dorset, in South West England. It has 243 pupils as of January 2012, in five houses: Athelstan, Damer, Hambro, Hodgkinson and Tregonwell. The school was founded in 1954 and is co-educational.The school has a rural campus, with facilities...
Lanyhydrock House, Cornwall, England= Lanhydrock (Cornish: Lannhedrek,[1] meaning "church enclosure of St Hydrock") is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin[2] and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 200...
Based on the Genealogy already compiled at:ariailfamily.comThe purpose of this project is to add the information from the Ariail Family Genealogy into the Geni World Family Tree, so that other members of this MASSIVE family can access this hard to find information.It appears to cover Family Surnames of: Ariail, Arial, Ariel, and Oryall.I'm looking for help compiling this Tree, as it will take a...
Historic Buildings of Derbyshire ==England Image right - Holme Hall , Bakewell >>===== Image by Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Derbyshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and...
Odell Castle Estate (Odell & Wahull Manors), Bedfordshire, England====Domesday Book of 1086===There are two manors in Odell recorded in the Domesday Book. * 1. One was held by an Arnulf of Ardres (a town near Calais). >>He had four and a half hides and a third of a virgate and held the manor from Count Eustace II of Boulogne. The manor comprised three villagers, seven smallholders and two slave...
Tullimaar House, Cornwall, England= Pictured Right: A front view of Tullimaar House, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, the former home of Nobel prize-winning novelist William Golding.Photograph: Jim Wileman Tullimaar House is a mansion just east of Perranarworthal in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; it is not visible from the main A39 Falmouth to Truro road, and stands in private grounds. Howev...
Clegg Hall, Lancashire, England= Pictured right Clegg Hall in 2006 Clegg Hall is a 17th-century hall in Littleborough, Greater Manchester (grid reference SD92231448).[1] It is situated just outside Smithy Bridge, Greater Manchester. Clegg Hall in 1999 The "Clegg" in the name of the current hall refers to the location (Little Clegg or Great Clegg) rather than the local family by the same surname...
Langtry Manor, Dorset, England= The Langtry Manor (formerly The Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. It was formerly in the parish of Christchurch but is now in the Borough of Bournemouth. There is a strong and developed local tradition that The Red House was built by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in 1877 for his mistress ...
Carswell Manor, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= Carswell Manor is a Jacobean country house at Carswell in the civil parish of Buckland in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It is located just north of the A420 road between Swindon and Oxford. The Manor of CARSWELL (fn. 62) (Kerswell, xiii cent.; Karswell, Craswelle, Cassewell, xiv cent.) was held of the St. Philiberts...
Cavers House, Roxburghshire, Scotland=Cavers, a Teviotdale parish of Roxburghshire, containing, in its northern division, the village of Denholm, 5 miles NE of Hawick, and, in its southern division, Shankend station, 7 miles SSE of Hawick. Very irregular in shape, being cut in two by Kirkton parish except for a narrow connecting link to the E, it is bounded NW by Wilton and Minto, E by Bedrule ...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, England= Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, an...
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
Pooley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Pooley Hall is a Manor house built in 1509 on the outskirts of Polesworth, Warwickshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and a private residence.===The Cockayne Family===The present Hall was built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cockayne "The Magnificent", who was knighted at the Battle of Tournai by King Henry VII. It was built on the site of an earlier Hal...
Chapel House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, London, Middlesex, England= Chapel House, now No. 15, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, is a house in Greater London, England. The house has also been called Tennyson House and Holyrood House.[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson , and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later. The house was owned for many yea...
Kingston Russell, Dorset, England= Kingston Russell is a large mansion house and manor near Long Bredy in Dorset, England, west of Dorchester. The present house dates from the late 17th century but in 1730 was clad in a white Georgian stone facade. The house was restored in 1913, and at the same time the gardens were laid out. The house is on land which was granted to the Russell family (not an...
Strawberry Hill House, London, England= Strawberry Hill House, often referred to simply as Strawberry Hill , is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture,[1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic revival.Walpole rebuilt the existing house in stages starting in ...
Trelowth Manor, Cornwall, England= Trelowth (also Trelowith, or Trelowthe, or Trelowthes; meaning, "the town place of trees")[1][2] is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) by road southwest of central St Austell,[3] and is situated immediately to the northwest of Polgooth. The hamlet is part of the parish of St Mewan.===History===Trelowth was mentioned in Domesday Book ...
Willington Manor, Bedfordshire, England=* Type of Building: Timber framed* Condition: Broken up* Location: Bedfordshire* Category: Grade II, of special interest* Date Listed: May 1984 by by the former Department of Environment. The 17th century (with one 18th century section altered in the 19th century) garden wall, which includes some remains of the former manor house, was also listed in May 1...
Marble Hill House, London, England= Marble Hill House is a Palladian villa built between 1724 and 1729 in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.===Description===Marble Hill House was built in 1724–1729 by Henrietta Howard, Cou...