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2 days ago · Green Volunteers offers a variety of conservation work days throughout the year. Explore and work in a variety of wild places around Edinburgh, the Lothians and further afield. This programme runs 2-3 times a month on a Sunday and involves tasks like planting trees, working on paths, clearing invasive non-native species as well as lots of other ...
5 days ago · 1. The agricultural returns for 1905 give ¼ acre arable land, 1,391 acres permanent grass, 190 acres woods and plantations. 2. a In 1901 the area of the township was 1,774 acres, of which 22 were inland water, and there were 637 separate occupiers; Census Rep. 1901. 3.
4 days ago · The King exchanged property in Yorkshire for York House by Act of Parliament (21 James I, cap. 30). n9. When in London, Buckingham mainly resided at Wallingford House, Whitehall, where his son, George, was born on 30th January, 1627–8, but part at least of York House was in use for entertainments on a lavish scale. n10.
2 days ago · Swallowfield Park, the residence of the Russell family, is a plain plastered building of two stories with a portico to the main entrance on the southwest front. The older portion of the present house was mainly built by Lord Clarendon in 1689–90, Tolman, 'comptroller of the works' to William III, being the architect.
5 days ago · The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1994 was an election for California 's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 8, 1994. As in much of the country during the Republican Revolution, Republicans made ...
3 days ago · The manor passed to his brother Thomas (who died c. 1386, when his widow Isabel is mentioned), (fn. 37) subject to the life interest of Sir John's widow Elizabeth. She, who had been married to Sir John at the age of nine, next married Robert, Lord Grey of Rotherfield, and then, in 1388, John, Lord Clinton, immediately after whose death in 1398 ...
5 days ago · The monuments in the chancel are of more than local interest, and of their kind are fine examples of the sculptural art of the period. In the western recess of the north wall is that of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (d. 1749), by Roubiliac, with an allegorical group of Charity and her nurslings exhibiting a medallion of the duke to the mourning ...
