The Story of Some English Shires (page 1/3)

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Lutterworth.

This 1890s engraving of the road into the village or small town of Lutterworth shows the church tower in the background, River Swift Bridge on High Street near Riverside Road in the foreground. [more...] [$]

In Needwood Forest

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) [more...] [$]

St. Ives Bridge

This black and white engraving shows anancient stone bridge across the Great Ouse. A stone building part-way across the bridge, in the foreground, has remnants of an arched window, and a pointed arch over the door, and was once a chapel. A boy is [...] [more...] [$]

Furness Abbey.

[...] at the time of the Domesday survey [c. A.D. 1080] there was no county of Lancashire, but the three portions which the county now contains lay scattered. The district of Cartmell had been detached from Cumberland, and together with Amunderness, formed part of Yorkshire. The southern lands were held by the Crown, and tended to form part of the great earldom of Chester. [...] Stephen, before his accession [...] [more...] [$]

Hinchinbrook House, Huntingdon

Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1564 by the owner and original builder, Henry, grandson of one Morgan Williams of Glamorganshire, wife to the sister of Oliver Comwell. The house was sold in [...] [more...] [$]