Places
14 places found.
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- Castle Acre, Norfolk
- Acre, Greater Manchester
- Laceby Acres, Humberside
- Acres Nook, Staffordshire
- South Acre, Norfolk
- Thorpe Acre, Leicestershire
- Five Acres, Gloucestershire
- West Acre, Norfolk
- Peas Acre, Yorkshire
- Bleak Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Birch Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Ten Acres, West Midlands
- King's Acre, Hereford & Worcester
- Two Hundred Acre, Yorkshire
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Memories
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Growing Up In North Boarhunt
My mother and father moved to 1 Birch Hill Cottages when I was in arms. I went to the tiny school in Newtown by mini bus which was really a Bedford van with seats in the back. I played in the field with the swings ...Read more
A memory of North Boarhunt in 1959 by
The Lordship Of Tilstock
I hold the Lordship of the Manor of Tilstock and have many maps and papers relating to its history. The Manor covers 2550 acres (just over 4 square miles) and has existed since before the Norman Conquest, when it was part of ...Read more
A memory of Tilstock in 2009 by
Wartime Evacuation
The small private school I was attending in Westcliff on Sea was evacuated to Manuden in July 1940. We were established in Cleeve Hall,which became my home and centre of learning until around August 1941, when the school closed due ...Read more
A memory of Manuden in 1941 by
The Early Years
I was born in Mundford in 1955 - when I was 18 months old my family moved to the nearby hamlet of West Tofts. We had a small wooden bungalow, one of a pair, that was directly opposite an army camp. My father worked for his father as ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1960 by
My House
I purchased Outlands in 1987 for £70,000, it was and still is my dream home with so much potential, we are still on generator and spring water, the river Camel with salmon and trout fishing is on one boundary and a stream on another boundry ...Read more
A memory of Bodmin in 1987 by
Bebington Hall
My family lived here at Bebington Hall until it was demolished in 1966-67. The Hall was a large place situated where "Civic Way" is today. It was set in 3-4 acres of grounds. The picture you can see is showing the servants' wing, ...Read more
A memory of Bebington in 1966
Timberscombe 1957 1965
We moved to Oaktrow in January 1957, me travelling in the cattle truck. The rest went by car. We stayed the first week or so at the Lion Inn, Timberscombe. Oaktrow had been purchased the previous summer. We eventually moved ...Read more
A memory of Timberscombe in 1957 by
Parkinson Family
My gg grandfather Richard Parkinson had a 200 acre farm in Roeburndale in the 1850s. Does anybody have any information about the ancesters of the Parkinson family? I would be grateful of any news, thank you.
A memory of Wray in 1860 by
The Magic Of Angmering On Sea Holidays In The 60's
My family had wonderful holidays at my aunts house called 'silba' in Golden Acre near the beach. My two brothers, sister and Mum and Dad spent such happy holidays here. We spent most of our days on the ...Read more
A memory of Angmering
103 Acre Lane, Fern Acre Bramhall/Cheadle Hulme
Hi I am the new owner of 103 acre lane, cheadle hulme it used to be part of bramhall many years ago. I am looking into finding out about the previous owners/history of the house for my own knowledge ...Read more
A memory of Bramhall by
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It opened in 1885, with ten more acres being added later.
The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners.
In the early 14th century, Sir Richard Hoghton and his wife, Sybilla de Lea, presided over an estate which was was already over 40,000 acres.
Townspeople loved the green area, calling it 'God's acre', and showing little interest in the 'Keep off the Grass' signs.
The estate is over 2,000 acres, much of which is farmed.
Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white
This pub also had a twenty-acre farm behind.
It occupies 2,500 acres in parts of Richmond, Kingston, Mortlake and Putney parishes; the largest open space in London.
From 1959, the 450-acre site was slowly developed as a pioneer shopping park.
Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.
Three acres of rundown cafes, souvenir shops and a wooden arcade were cleared, and a new dual-carriageway swept down the hill offering a clear panoramic view of the sands and bay.
left are round barrows breaking the now contracted sky line, the wandering bunches of sheep, the wheeling plovers, the friendly white-tailed wheatears, and the skylarks innumerable filling the air
In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and she gave some of the money back to pay for the art gallery it was to house.
The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.
Also, there were about 1,300 acres of complete wasteland, half of which had no owner.
Portsmouth Football Club The club was established on 5 April 1898, when six local businessmen bought five acres of land close to Goldsmith Avenue for £4,950 and formed Portsmouth Football Club.
However, it would be over 50 years before the General Enclosure Act was passed in 1858, which would enable further parts of the Heath to be enclosed, and the skeletal structure of the town to
The developers had created building plots of an acre each all over the Edge, but the farmers were not ready to pay developers' prices for their land, and the general gloom at the sale seems to
By the time he had taken out his 48 acres and added them on to the estate of Four Oaks Hall, the shape of the Park had been changed forever.
For a number of years the five acre site stood in splendid isolation with magnificent views of the sea across open fields which had formerly been Clacton's first golf course and was later to become
For years seventeen acres of canalside land has been left vacant and derelict, a depressing backdrop to the modern, eye-catching new art gallery.
The centre for this was a site of many acres behind the houses on Marine Terrace facing the golden sands.
Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.
Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.
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