"Manor of Worksop The Manor of Worksop is a feudal entity in the Dukeries area of Nottinghamshire, England. Held in Grand Serjeanty by a lord of the manor, it was originally connected with nearby Worksop Manor, a stately home. Under the feudal system in late and high medieval England, ""tenure by serjeanty"" was a form of land-holding in return for some specified service, usually the discharge of duties in the household of the king or other high-ranking noble. Allegedly created to commemorate the Danegeld (c.1163), it is said that the Worksop serjeanty was already known in the time of King"
"Hassop Hassop is a village in the local government district of Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Great Longstone It developed around a number of lead mines, with such names as ""The Brightside"", ""Backdale"", ""Harry Bruce"", ""Waterhole"" and ""Whitecoe"", which lasted until the mid-nineteenth century. The local landowners were the Eyre family of Padley, who built Hassop Hall. In 1643 they defended the house against the Parliamentarians. Manholes in the floor of the cellar are reputed to allow entrance to a former lead-mine under the Hall. Hassop Hall was extensively rebuilt in Classical style"
"the Dinting railway viaduct. Glossop has transport links to Manchester, making the area popular for commuters. The name Glossop is thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, named during the Angles' settlement in the 7th century, and derived from ""Glott's Hop"" – where ""hop"" could mean a valley, a small valley in a larger valley system, or a piece of land enclosed by marshes and ""Glott"" was probably a chieftain's name. Because of its size and location, Glossop had many definitions. The village of Glossop is now called Old Glossop. Howard Town and Milltown gained importance. They were named New Town"
"Brinsop Court Brinsop Court is a romantic Grade I listed English country manor house located in the village of Brinsop, Herefordshire, England. Dating back to the early fourteenth century, Brinsop Court is filled with excellent period features including large fireplaces, ornate ceilings and wooden panelling. The house, with medieval foundations is surrounded by lawns, encircled by a moat and nestled within a private 800 acre estate. With a long history and Royal connections, this house has been occupied by a succession of noble families and celebrities. After an extensive refurbishment, Brinsop Court is now primarily an exclusive wedding venue available"
"burnt-out Elizabethan mansion. He planned a roughly square mansion with a vast hall in the central courtyard which would have been one of the largest houses ever built in England, had it been completed. Only one wing had been finished when work stopped on the house in 1767, but even this was on a palatial scale. On the death of the 9th Duke in 1777, the estate passed to a distant cousin, aged 57 and living in Surrey. Neither he nor his immediate successors lived at Worksop and it became neglected. The 12th Duke gave it to his son, the"
"saw four ducal families in close proximity among fewer than twenty at any given time current (""extant"") English dukedoms and their parks or farmed lands largely neighbouring to the point of being at most points touching (contiguous). The last mansion in single-family occupation is Welbeck Abbey – by a great-nephew of the final (seventh) Duke of Portland. The late Duke had neighbouring Welbeck Woodhouse built in the early 1930s when he bore his courtesy marquessate style. The latter property is equally intact, , north east of the main house and long. The incumbent Duke of Norfolk sold Worksop Manor to"
"Glossop Glossop is a market town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, England, about east of Manchester, west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop is near Derbyshire's county borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. It is between above mean sea level, and is a gateway to the Peak District National Park. Historically, the name Glossop refers to the small hamlet that gave its name to an ancient parish recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and then the manor given by William I of England to William Peverel. A municipal borough was created"
"Warsop Warsop is a civil parish in the District of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest. At the 2001 census it had a population of 12,365, reducing to 11,999 at the 2011 Census including Church Warsop, Meden Vale and Spion Kop. The parish holds an annual carnival traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July. The carnival was expanded to include the preceding Saturday to be used as a sports day and music festival. The event is held on The Carrs playing fields, just off the main A60 road. The parish formed an urban district"
"Hartsop Hartsop is a small village in the English Lake District. It lies in the Patterdale valley, near Brothers Water, Hayeswater and Kirkstone Pass. It consists of 17th-century grey stone cottages, like so many of its neighbours. Hartsop retains its historic image, in that, in common with a number of other small Cumbrian villages, it had houses with spinning galleries. It was also a lead mining community. Hartsop Hall, in the care of the National Trust, is located on the far side of the valley from the village. The hall dates from the 16th century, formerly the home of the"
"Hassocks Hassocks is a large village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Its name is believed to derive from the tufts of grass found in the surrounding fields. Located approximately north of Brighton, with a population of 7,667, the area now occupied by Hassocks was just a collection of small houses and a coaching house until the 19th century, when work started on the London to Brighton railway. Hassocks until 2000 was just a postal district and prior to that the name of the railway station. The Parishes were named Clayton and Keymer and"
"and Hodsock. The landowner in 1086 was Roger de Busli, one of the great Norman landowners who held 163 estates in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and south Yorkshire. George Sitwell, ironmaster mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the 17th century. In 1767 much of the local forest was managed by the Duke of Portland for the production of timber. In the 1760s there were a number of prosecutions of local people for entering the forest park and causing disorders. In 1767 labourers from Warsop and Worksop were involved in the Clipstone Riot. As the Duke of Portland was at"
"centuries, including collieries and markets. There is a series of the Sheffield agents' letters and diaries in the nineteenth century. The Worksop records cover in particular the eighteenth century when Worksop was a residence of the dukes. The Glossop records also refer mainly to the nineteenth century when the town became a prosperous manufacturing district and there are records of several turnpike trusts of the Glossop area. The Earls of Wharncliffe, the Vernon-Wentworths and the Spencer Stanhopes have also deposited their records. Besides estate matters in Scotland, Yorkshire and (a few) Cornwall, they include much correspondence. The small number of"
"Knowsthorpe Knowsthorpe, Knostrop or Knostropp is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire. The spelling ""Knostrop"" is predominantly used for the large water treatment works in the area. Atkinson Grimshaw painted ""Knostrop Cut, Leeds, Sunday Night, 1893"". The area falls within Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council. The earliest mention of Knostrop is from the time of the Domesday survey when the hamlet was an area of open fields and the location of the lord of the manor's rabbit warren. In the 13th and 14th centuries the land was cultivated using the three-field system, growing"
"in 1866, and the unparished urban area within two local government wards. The area now known as Glossop approximates to the villages that used to be called Glossopdale, on the lands of the Duke of Norfolk. Originally a centre of wool processing, Glossop rapidly expanded in the late 18th century when it specialised in the production and printing of calico, a coarse cotton and became a mill town with many chapels and churches, its fortunes tied to the cotton industry. Architecturally, the area is dominated by buildings constructed of the local sandstone. There remain two significant former cotton mills and"
"Hospital, which is located just behind it, and now used as the administration block. Kilton, Nottinghamshire Kilton is a large suburban area located in the northeast of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, consisting of series of large Post-World War II housing estates, some of which are Council Estates. The suburb was, since the late nineteenth century, home to Kilton Hospital, which was, along with Victoria Hospital, located on Memorial Avenue in Worksop, one of the town's main hospitals. The Hospital survived until the late 1980s, at a time when it chiefly dealt with maternity. Today the surviving main building, with its fabulous"
"colour. To the north-east of Brothers Water is the village of Hartsop, which has several 17th-century stone farm buildings and cottages. Some of the buildings still contain spinning-rooms where villagers would have made their own clothing, selling any surplus in the local market towns. The word Hartsop means ""valley of the deer"", which would have lived in the woodlands of the lower areas of the surrounding fells. A walk through woodland skirts the western shore. From its northern end the walk leads to Patterdale. Southward it heads over Kirkstone Pass to Ambleside. On the western side of Brothers Water is"
"Brinsop Brinsop is a small hamlet 6 miles north-west of Hereford, England: it has a uniquely well-preserved medieval church. The civil parish is called Brinsop and Wormsley. At the 2011 census it had a population of 131. A small, but historic church set in characteristically wooded Herefordshire dell. Unfortunately most of the redsand stonework has been looted, still the original carved tympanum (similar to Kilpeck) dates from circa 1150–60 depicts St George on horseback, a knight crusader slaying a serpent-dragon, since before the construction of Brinsop Court. Typical of the Herefordshire much of its motifs are of fabulous creatures, some"
"was part of the Hatfield division of the Bassetlaw wapentake north division of the county of Nottingham situated about SSE from Worksop. The township contained 193 inhabitants and 1,516 acres of land. The Duke of Portland was the sole owner and lord of the manor, however the Duke of Newcastle owned about 40 acres, which was inclosed in Clumber Park. In 1853 it was written that the chapelry included Carburton Forge, a small hamlet, one mile west of the village, where there was previously an iron forge. The chapel that is located in Carburton is dedicated to Saint Giles and"
"since the mid 16th century. Atkinson Grimshaw lived at the hall in the 1870s, and it was demolished in 1960. Notes Bibliography Knowsthorpe Knowsthorpe, Knostrop or Knostropp is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire. The spelling ""Knostrop"" is predominantly used for the large water treatment works in the area. Atkinson Grimshaw painted ""Knostrop Cut, Leeds, Sunday Night, 1893"". The area falls within Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council. The earliest mention of Knostrop is from the time of the Domesday survey when the hamlet was an area of open fields and the location of"
"Alfred if not earlier. In 1327 tenure was passed to Worksop Manor from Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. In 1541 Worksop Manor was held by George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, before passing to the Dukes of Norfolk, in whose family it remained until 1840. The estate was then sold to the Dukes of Newcastle of nearby Clumber Park who owned it until the 20th century. The land and the lordship then passed to corporate owners. In 1994 the title was bought by John Hunt, a retired transport manager of Worksop, for a reported £40,000. The lords of the manor of Worksop"
"the site of a Roman settlement, but grew after the Norman Conquest. Worksop, in the north of the county, is also an Anglo-Saxon market town which grew rapidly in the industrial revolution, with the arrival of canals and railways and the discovery of coal. Other market towns include Arnold, Bingham, Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and Retford. The main railway in the county is the Midland Main Line, which links London to Sheffield via Nottingham. The Robin Hood Line between Nottingham and Worksop serves several villages in the county. The East Coast Main Line from London to Doncaster, Leeds, York, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Scotland"
"and south of the town of Worksop. The northern part contained Blyth; the southern contained Cuckney. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and now forms part of the Bassetlaw district, with the exception of small areas that are now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. Worksop Rural District Worksop (previously Blyth and Cuckney) was a Rural District in Nottinghamshire, England. It originated as Worksop Rural Sanitary District in 1872. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, the Worksop RSD was split to match county borders, with the West Riding of Yorkshire part becoming"
"Hassop Hall Hassop Hall is a 17th-century country house near Bakewell, Derbyshire which is now operated as a hotel. It is a Grade II* listed building. The Manor was owned by the Foljambe family until the 14th century when it passed by the marriage of Alice Foljambe to Sir Robert Plumpton. His son Sir William Plumpton served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1453. The Plumptons sold the estate in 1498 to Catherine Eyre. The manor house was substantially rebuilt in the early 17th century by Thomas Eyre. During this period the Eyres were strongly Royalist and during the Civil"
"of the town. After World War II, it was developed as the largest residential area of the city. West Ansonia – The residential village that comprised the west side of the Naugatuck River across from Ansonia (downtown). The original West Ansonia neighborhood consisted of High, Maple, and Jersey streets (the latter somewhat redirected and now known as 'Olson Drive'), and later its name was synonymous with the entire present west side of the city. Windy Hill – A section of West Ansonia centered around Murray, May, and Francis street. This area is considered to encompass the territory from the Derby"
"Cusop Cusop is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England that lies at the foot of Cusop Hill next to the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales. It is a short walk from Hay, the distance between bus stops, and can be reached by walking or driving out of Hay towards Bredwardine, and turning right into Cusop Dingle. The writer L.T.C. Rolt lived here between 1914 and 1922, in a house then known as ""Radnor View"", in a development locally called ""Thirty Acres"". Spending his early boyhood here, he went on to co-found the Inland Waterways Association and the Talyllyn"
"to which it is aligned on the opposite bank. The track on the opposite bank leads on to a second ford, still intact, across the Leaden Stour. This is known locally as Pansy's Bathing Place, named after the golden retriever of Dr and Mrs James Fisher, who have lived in Throop (in Throop House and latterly in Throop Mill Cottage) since 1959. Pansy loved swimming in this ford. Throop, Dorset Throop is a village in Dorset situated on the outskirts of Bournemouth. It is renowned for its expansive fishing industry. Although within the historic county boundaries of Hampshire, at the"
"of . Beard, Ollerset, Thornsett, Rowarth and Whitle later formed the town of New Mills, while Hayfield, Little Hayfield, Phoside and Kinder joined the parish of Hayfield. The chapelry of Mellor included Mellor, Chisworth, Ludworth, Whittle and part of Thornsett. The Manor of Glossop was made up of the territory that includes Hadfield, Padfield, Dinting, Simmondley, Whitfield, Chunal, Charlesworth, Chisworth, Ludworth and the village of Glossop, now called Old Glossop. It had an area of , of which more than were classed as moorland. The present community of Glossop is centred on Howardtown. It is served by the Glossopdale Area"
"Graskop Graskop is a small town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It was set up in the 1880s as a gold mining camp but it now serves as a tourist destination and the timber industry. The name is Afrikaans for ""grassy hillock"". “God’s Window”, a scenic view from the escarpment of the Lowveld below, is located outside the town. Grsnkop is 14 km south-east of Pilgrim's Rest and 28 km north of Sabie. It was laid out between 1880 and 1890 on a farm belonging to Abel Erasmus, Native Commissioner of the Transvaal Republic. Named after a grassy hillock (Afrikaans"
"between 1827 and 1833. It is now a private hotel. The Church of All Saints was built in 1816-18 for the Eyre family. Hassop railway station was about two miles south of the village, built by the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway in 1863. It closed in 1964 and the station building has since been converted to a bookshop and cafe. The trackbed through the station is part of the 8.5 mile Monsal Trail, a walk and cycleway. Hassop Hassop is a village in the local government district of Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, England. It is in the"
"Burderop Park Burderop Park is a Grade II* listed country manor house, situated near Chiseldon, Wiltshire. The house was constructed in the early 17th century to a courtyard design and later turned into a three-storey square house with bay windows during the 18th century. The house is the manor to the local hamlet of Hodson to the east of the house. The north of the estate is Burderop Wood, which was designated a 'Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest' in 1971 due to the wet Ash-maple and acid Pedunculate oak-Hazel-Ash woodland. The Calley family lived at Burderop for over two"
"Hodsock Priory Hodsock Priory is an English country house in Nottinghamshire, north of Worksop, England, and south of Blyth. Despite its name, it is not and never has been a priory. Hodsock is renowned for its snowdrops in early spring. It is also a venue for special events and weddings. Hodsock has been occupied since at least the Bronze Age and evidence of occupation from the Bronze Age, the Romans and Saxons is found in the gardens. Hodsock was mentioned in the Domesday Book: ""In ODESACH. hb.Vlsy .ii . car tre ad gld"" - 'In Hodsock Wulfsi had 2 carucates"
"Kilton, Nottinghamshire Kilton is a large suburban area located in the northeast of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, consisting of series of large Post-World War II housing estates, some of which are Council Estates. The suburb was, since the late nineteenth century, home to Kilton Hospital, which was, along with Victoria Hospital, located on Memorial Avenue in Worksop, one of the town's main hospitals. The Hospital survived until the late 1980s, at a time when it chiefly dealt with maternity. Today the surviving main building, with its fabulous yellow brick facade, and Stag frieze in its pediment, has been incorporated into Bassetlaw"
"Old Glossop Old Glossop is a parish village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester and 23 miles west of Sheffield. The village is on the very edge of the Peak District national park. Although High Peak Borough Council has now called a large area of Glossop ""Old Glossop"" for political ward reasons, the original parish boundaries mean the area has a population of about 1,100. At the beginning of the 1900s the village had eight pubs, but there are now only three: The"