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10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…RAVENSBURY Ravensbury Farm Until the 1820s this house had been the farmhouse of Ravensbury Farm. In 1823 C and J Greenwood mention “Ravensbury Farm in Morden, the residence of Thomas…
Medieval Morden: Landscape and Landholding
March 9, 2022
…court and account rolls and other documents.9 The variant spelling ‘Ravesbury’, which continued to be used into the mid- 16th century,10 also appears in the Morden manorial court roll of…
Bulletin 210
July 10, 2019
…of London. It was this William Atterbury, born to William Atterbury, blacksmith, who most Atterbury researchers identify as the father of William Atterbury, the American immigrant. This William Atterbury was…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
…Abbey, Easby Centre: The author at the River Brant Bridge, Lincolnshire, 4 July 1979 Bottom left: Glastonbury Abbey Bottom right: Glastonbury Road, Morden ABBEY ROADS A Modern Pilgrimage W J…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…Henry Dunster of Jenningsbury, in the County of Hertford, Esq. and Wife of Joseph Cranmer Esq., a younger Son of Robert Cranmer of this Parish, Merchant, who departed this Life…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…and drew up rules of behaviour. When pope Gregory I sent Augustine and his companions to England in 596, they set up a monastery at Canterbury which followed the Rule…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…lord of the manor of Ravensbury, who had further lands in the adjoining parish of Mitcham. A 4-acre meadow (tithe plot 353) had been a copyhold of Ravensbury manor until…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…occupants. Challenged, the architect, John Rogers of Canterbury, could offer no explanation other than that the date must have been supplied by the brewers. By 1998 agent’s boards outside the…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
…possession of the copyhold tenancy of “a parcel of land called Allmannesland” which he held of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, lord of the manor of “Faukeshall”, paying six…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…railings curving around the playground of Benedict Primary School and, beyond the school entrance, by the old kerb line of Benedict Road as far as the caretaker’s house and Ravensbury…
Ravensbury: a poem written after a visit in 1850, recollecting childhood memories of people, places and events
April 14, 2017
…first half of the 1800s. THE FENNINGS AND RAVENSBURY PRINTWORKS THE FENNINGS AND RAVENSBURY PRINTWORKS For possibly 300 years Ravensbury was one of three centres of the textile bleaching and…
Daughter Houses of Merton Priory
April 14, 2017
…Rebuilt building with priory stone. Trace of watercourse. 11 St Gregory’s Priory, Canterbury, Kent St Gregory’s Priory, Canterbury, Kent In 1123 the new archbishop was William Corbeil who had been…
Morden in 1910: The Land Valuation Records (‘Lloyd George’s Domesday’)
April 14, 2017
…Steel Hawes Lodge, Central Rd Cottage Player, Silas 163 Lower Morden, London Rd Orchard & Stable Hills, James 164 Ravensbury Mills Tobacco Mills Rutter, J & Co 165 Hazelwood House,…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…to the copyhold tenure of Cold Blows and Chaff Hawes, five closes of land totalling 22 acres held of the manor of Ravensbury, he was described as “of Mitcham”, which…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…Sidney 71 Ravensbury, manor of 7-8, 13-14, 29, 30, 31, 41, 43, 44, 69, 74, 122 Ravensbury, house 18, 19, 21 Rhodes, Joseph THE UPPER, OR FAIR GREEN Rice, Robert…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…enclosure of 14 acres, were owned around 1680 by Henry Hampson, a copyholder of the manor of Ravensbury.12 Hampson himself resided at “the Mansion howse called Ravensbury” (the site of…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…lands held of the manor of Ravensbury in favour of another Richard Broughton and his wife, and thereafter descent of title to the different parts of the estate is somewhat…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
edited by Judith Goodman This publication is concerned with two families who, for several decades in the 18th and 19th centuries, were important in the industrial north-east of the historic…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…le Poer, who became Chancellor to King Stephen, Azo of Ramsbury, dean of Salisbury and Ranulf le Poer, later sheriff of Gloucestershire. Nephews included Alexander who was adopted by Roger…