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Senin, 2026-06-29 21:55:52Burgage is a medieval land term used in Great Britain and Ireland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town ("borough" or "burgh") rental...
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Minggu, 2025-09-28 12:03:36on burgage land could freely lease or buy other land from their lord, sell their land or leave the property. A typical annual rent for a burgage was...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-04 20:39:27surrounding prebendary properties Burgage was north of the cathedral, around Burgage Green, traditionally hosting burgage properties Hightown was to the...
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Rabu, 2026-07-22 04:05:21rotten boroughs. Burgage boroughs In these 29 boroughs, the right to vote was attached to ownership of certain properties known as burgages – whoever owned...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 11:46:30(Irish: Buiríos Mór Osraí, meaning 'the great borough of Ossory', or the 'Burgage of Osraige') is a village in west County Laois, Ireland, close to the Tipperary...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 17:30:06Castle Rising was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was vested in the owners of particular properties ("burgage tenements"), and that...
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Kamis, 2025-10-30 19:17:59Talbotstown Lower Blessington Talbotstown Lower Boystown Talbotstown Lower Burgage Talbotstown Lower Crehelp Talbotstown Lower Donard Talbotstown Lower Dunlavin...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-31 03:50:55medieval village running parallel to the main street at the other end of burgage plots. There may be a back lane on each side of the main street which,...
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Jumat, 2026-07-17 05:28:32Borrisokane (Irish: Buiríos Uí Chéin, meaning 'the burgage of the Cianacht') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is 15 km north of Nenagh, at the...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-18 00:14:25house currently has an attractive, 18th-century facade, it originated as a burgage tenement. In addition, behind the house, evidence of a kiln has been unearthed...
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Senin, 2026-07-20 18:25:26boroughs the vote was attached to burgage property, and wealthy individuals could buy up the burgages (or acquire burgage tenures) to control the election...
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Jumat, 2026-07-17 23:24:57to the public. Rothe House is the only remaining example of a complete burgage plot in Ireland, and considered to be nationally significant because of...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 14:57:03contained only 154 houses, and had a population of 947. Boroughbridge was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was vested in the tenants of certain...
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Sabtu, 2025-08-02 19:26:29Main Street at Blessington; and Burgage More in the county of Wicklow: Glebe East in the county of Kildare: Burgage Moyle and Russborough in the county...
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Minggu, 2026-04-12 20:25:04Borrisoleigh (Irish: Buiríos Ó Luigheach, meaning 'The Burgage of the territory of O'Lea or I‑leagh') is a small town in County Tipperary, Ireland. At...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 21:06:28boreen Boherbue, Bohernabreena, Bohernaglogh borris buiríos borough, burgage Borris, Borrisokane, Borrisoleigh boy, bue buí yellow Bawnboy, Curraghboy...
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Minggu, 2025-08-03 05:00:12The Smelt family was a family from Yorkshire. It owned many of the burgages in Northallerton and was prominent in the town from the mid 17th century onwards...
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:43:00public way leading from a typical high street to the open ground beyond the burgage plots. The Latin form is venella, related to the English word "funnel"...
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Kamis, 2026-06-25 14:15:33population, the borough was organised with a burgage franchise, meaning that the inhabitants of designated houses (burgage tenements) had the right to vote. From...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-08 11:20:32properties of varying scale, colour and detail which were built on long, narrow burgage plots probably of medieval origin. The 18th century façade of the Wynnstay...
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 00:17:33Heytesbury was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was reserved to the householders of specific properties or "burgage tenements" within...
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Rabu, 2026-07-22 10:27:45Wicklow, Ireland. St. Mark's Cross is presently located at the south wall of Burgage cemetery, Blessington, 600 m (660 yd) west of the River Liffey. St. Mark's...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 15:03:24vote which was attached to them. As in most other burgage boroughs, the ownership of the burgages had early become concentrated in the hands of a single...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 09:41:21large stone set up on end in the middle of each portion. No doubt these "burgage tenements" had once included houses, but long before the 19th century it...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:19:20village High Street. It is located along what would have been medieval burgage plots. The plots were for laying out a town. Built for the Abbot of Westminster...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 12:36:3618th‑century houses incorporating earlier timber framing on a medieval burgage plot, and was adapted for commercial use in the 19th century, when No. 15...
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Senin, 2026-08-03 11:50:10which the priory subsequently laid out into a planned suburb consisting of burgage plots. Furthermore, a vast lay cemetery spanning roughly 128,000 square...
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Minggu, 2026-08-02 04:45:23predominantly have narrow frontages stretching back to gain floorspace. This burgage plot style is particularly evident around the marketplace and on side streets...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-18 20:05:39Elizabethan merchant townhouse located on the only completely surviving burgage plot in Ireland. It also features a restored 17th-century garden on an...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 10:34:45private citizens or groups. Socage, a feudal tax system based on land rent. Burgage, a feudal tax system based on land rent. The Organisation for Economic...
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Rabu, 2025-04-02 06:06:50public house, the Bay Horse at West End. In High Burgage is a corner shop and a post office. In Low Burgage is the local Methodist Chapel, on a road which...
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Rabu, 2026-07-15 22:39:47manufacturing town, producing iron and coal. By 1288, the town had 378 burgage plots. A raid in 1291, followed by the impact of the Black Death , destroyed...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 20:42:51the west. This seems to have been the first street laid out in the town. Burgage plots of Norman origin are also evident in the long narrow property boundaries...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 10:09:32a borough simply because the de Limsey Lord of the Manor offered free burgage tenure where residents were free, rent-paying burgesses, rather than villeins...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 23:56:57setting out of the new town, including its parish church, marketplace, and burgage plots. There was a second development phase after the Anarchy, the civil...
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Selasa, 2026-04-28 10:36:50divided the town ditch on the south side of Broad Street into a row of burgage plots, on which buyers built houses and later shops. Most of the wall beside...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-09 00:13:47in 1704, and was exempt in the 3rd Life Guards in 1705. Peachey bought burgages at Midhurst from Anthony Browne, 6th Viscount Montagu and was returned...
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Kamis, 2026-07-23 03:07:03inhabitants paying scot and lot, but subsequently it was converted to a burgage franchise, meaning that the right to vote was tied to ownership of certain...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 23:50:20Newsam estate as well as eighty burgages in Horsham, Sussex to Lady Ingram. A resolute Tory, Lady Ingram used the burgages to dominate local politics by...
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Kamis, 2025-08-28 15:38:4812 d per burgage (as was customary with other rental properties at the time), the money paid by the borough may represent about 140 burgages. Although...
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Selasa, 2026-07-28 06:19:24attempts were made to encourage merchants and traders through the creation of burgage plots, a type of land tenure that provided them with special privileges...
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Sabtu, 2025-06-14 06:32:46a 'free man' or 'citizen' of the burgh, who could own land (known as a burgage), contribute to the running of the town and not be under the jurisdiction...
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Selasa, 2025-11-04 00:50:37After their quarrel Robinson offered his estates in Westmorland (including burgage tenures in Appleby) to Lowther, who didn't want them, and sold nearly the...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 15:14:26of burgage tenements, of which there were 50 in 1831. The Frankland family were the local landowners (in 1816 Sir Thomas owned 49 of the 50 burgage tenements)...
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Minggu, 2024-12-01 18:27:25the borough of Whitchurch, and except the common arable field called The Burgage Field. Whittlebury Inclosure Act 1797 37 Geo. 3. c. 69 Pr. 9 May 1797 An...
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Senin, 2026-08-17 13:14:34While not at school or college, Byron lived at his mother's residence, Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. While there, he cultivated friendships...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 03:11:26election. Victory in the seat depended on control of burgages. Having bought a number of burgages to no effect, Monckton decided to sell them to Sir Nathaniel...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 18:06:37medieval England, that granted a town's citizens or burgesses rights of burgage tenure and a degree of self-government under a charter or prescription...
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Senin, 2026-08-17 08:17:09Landscapes Cockermouth, Cumbria: archaeological investigation of three burgage plots in Main Street 2012 Cumbria Archaeological Research Report Extraordinary...
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Kamis, 2026-07-02 05:29:25houses were demolished, and the bridges at Humphreystown, Baltyboys, and Burgage blown up, in anticipation of the flooding of the valley for the Poulaphouca...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 00:13:09medieval layout, of a broad main street of burgesses' houses, each with a burgage plot stretching to a "back lane": the Derwent bank on the north and Back...
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Selasa, 2025-11-04 23:10:18of new houses set on equal-sized plots of land – burgage plots. At the opposite end of the burgage plot there is often a back lane which gives the original...
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Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:41:18new town system involving a grid street layout was part of the system of burgage. An example of a medieval planned city in The Netherlands is Elburg. Bury...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 22:20:06Ireland, or his son Sir James Fitzgerald. The abandoned medieval village of Burgage More is just south of Blessington town. It was an ecclesiastical settlement...
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Rabu, 2026-01-28 13:52:32Gough became a Director of the East India Company. In 1714 he purchased 18 burgage houses at Bramber which gave him control of one of the seats there. He...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:50:30Newtown was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was vested solely in the owners of a specified number of properties or "burgage tenements"...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 10:53:03Caudwell flour Mill is on the south bank. It was built over the site of Burgage mill, a medieval building, and was bought by Charles Caudwell in 1851....
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 11:20:25Bohermore, Boherbue prefix Anglicised from bóthar. borris I, SG borough, burgage Borris, Borrisokane, Borrisoleigh, Borrisdale prefix Anglicisation of Irish...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 22:07:45urbanized in the late 15th century, with the division of the land into burgage-plots and construction of a tenement, at the same time the market place...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:35:42was very probably an early 16th-century merchant's house, placed on a burgage plot between the High Street and Alfred Jones Court. The timber-framed...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 00:36:19century when the archbishops laid out burgage (freehold) plots to attract merchants and tradespeople. The burgage plots were on Boroughgate, Walkergate...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 08:28:41only 85 houses. It was a burgage borough: the right to vote was exercised by the owners or resident tenants of the 130 "burgage tenements". No doubt at...
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Senin, 2026-05-11 22:16:31was a burgage borough where the right to vote was attached to the ownership of certain properties; Lopes had bought all but two of these "burgage tenements"...
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Senin, 2026-08-03 04:40:43Harrying of the North in 1069–70. In about 1128 Henry I granted the abbey burgage in Whitby and permission to hold a fair at the feast of St Hilda on 25...
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Senin, 2026-06-29 20:03:01Charter, which established it as the market town. The charter created the burgage plots – long, narrow plots which can still be seen in the property boundaries...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 20:12:00Streets were added later, as part of a southern grid plan of streets and burgage plots filling the area bounded by Dinham, the new High Street market, Old...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 02:15:06Henry Edward Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn. 21 July – Mother rented Burgage Manor, Southwell. September – Fell madly in love with neighbour's daughter...
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Rabu, 2025-03-26 22:15:23centre of Leeds, in England. The pub lies on Turk's Head Yard, on a narrow burgage plot off Briggate. The building it occupies was constructed in about 1700...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 12:01:46allocated into 30 burgage plots for tradespeople to carry out their business, setting the style and layout of the street today. A burgage plot was a strip...
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Jumat, 2026-07-31 12:00:00electoral system fairer by eliminating many of the rotten boroughs and burgage tenements that were represented by two members while having very few voters...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 11:10:55the High Street and Jeffrey Street and found evidence of the medieval burgage plots; the construction of multi-storey tenement buildings that characterise...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 17:18:54towns. Notable examples are the villages of South Zeal with its ancient burgage plots, granite thatched cottages and Dartmoor Folk Festival; Belstone on...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:12:35been granted charters to hold markets by Bishop Robert (1136–66) and free burgage tenure was granted by Bishop Reginald (1174–1191). Wells was recognised...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 03:28:12its medieval street plan, characterised by a long principal street and burgage plots. It is one of the few medieval walled towns in Wales, with substantial...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 09:45:31in Bury (near Pulborough). Including a rabbit warren, a park, eighteen burgage plots, a causeway and a channel to fill his moat "Brotherhood Hall". Archived...
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Kamis, 2026-02-19 20:32:38present High Street, was laid out around the market place with uniform burgage plots and rear access lanes. Burghers paid an annual fixed rent to the...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 03:03:46was a burgage borough, where the right to vote was attached to the holders of about 325 specified properties in the borough. As in most burgage boroughs...
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Rabu, 2025-10-29 07:27:22Societa Allevamento di Besnate, Italy and At stud in 2005–19 standing at Burgage Stud, Ireland. Pensioned in December 2020. As a breeding stallion Shantou...
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:21:48first recorded reference to Chapel Street dates from 1368 on a deed for a burgage plot. By 1355, the church was deemed too small for Liverpool's growing...
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Selasa, 2024-11-26 07:07:15grammar school. The part of the street near the town became built up with burgage plots, although there were fewer than on Westgate and Kirkgate. Numerous...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 20:57:23time, burgesses (elected by those residents of boroughs or towns who held burgage tenure, such as wealthy merchants or craftsmen) were summoned along with...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:19:28of Durham, completed in 1382, as a "suiter" or lawyer, holding a half a burgage for life in Auckland and paying six pence for any omission, and one penny...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 15:14:57behind the houses on both sides of High Street was divided into long narrow burgage plots. From the 11th century Wigford developed as a suburb for "substantial...
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Selasa, 2026-08-04 20:56:28Akeman Street) forming the east–west axis, from which extend medieval burgage plots to the north and south. The town centre slowly developed over the...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 13:34:59Ferrers, on 14 January 1253, and a market was held until the 18th century. Burgage plots were laid out on Churchgate and Deansgate in the centre of the medieval...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-31 03:52:16public way leading from a typical high street to the open ground beyond the burgage plots. The Latin form is venella, related to the English word "funnel"...
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Minggu, 2026-08-02 01:02:34burgh in 1292. Medieval Wigtown was built on a rectangular pattern with burgage plots around the present day Square (Main Street) and later, the West Port...
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Minggu, 2026-07-26 19:15:27peculiar to the burgh of Paisley but does not differ essentially from feu. Burgage is the system by which land is held in Royal Burghs. Blench holding is...
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Kamis, 2026-08-06 22:10:57and in 1230 Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester made Salford a burgage, or free borough. The charter gave its burgesses certain commercial rights...
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Jumat, 2026-04-10 01:18:42temporarily reserved by the Reform Act of 1832, such as (1) Freeholders and burgage tenants in cities and towns which are counties of themselves; e.g., Bristol...
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Selasa, 2026-08-18 22:40:05where they declared under oath that successive abbots had bought up many burgage tenements, and made the borough into an appendage of the manor, depriving...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 01:57:30town.[citation needed] The central section of the town was laid out in burgage plots, the lines of which are still evident. With the decline of the marcher...
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Selasa, 2024-02-27 00:04:45longer in wide use. These medieval land terms include the following: a burgage, a plot of land rented from a lord or king a hide: the hide, from the Anglo-Saxon...
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Jumat, 2026-08-14 14:48:53the Transference of Lands and other Heritages in Scotland not held in Burgage Tenure. The whole act. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 49 Transference of Lands (Scotland)...
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Selasa, 2025-11-18 21:42:483 mi) Major junctions From R756 at Lockstown, County Wicklow To N81 at Burgage Moyle Location Country Ireland Highway system Roads in Ireland Motorways...
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Rabu, 2026-07-15 03:03:141284. The land ownership had by now passed to a form of tenure known as a burgage. As a borough, it was governed by a Court Leet. Meetings were held in the...
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Jumat, 2026-07-31 02:02:16partible inheritance Borough English, inheritance by the youngest son Burgage, urban property, often including voting rights, with various rent conditions...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 09:45:16rested with the occupiers of around a hundred burgage tenements. By the 18th century, the majority of the burgages were owned by the Lowther and Tufton families...
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Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:19:04(c. 2)) Uxbridge Burgage Lands Act 1855 18 & 19 Vict. c. xxxix 25 May 1855 An Act for authorizing the Sale of the Uxbridge Burgage Lands, and directing...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 19:37:50the oldest part of Frankwell have been strongly influenced by medieval burgage plots approached from the main street through passages. Frankwell was highly...
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Jumat, 2026-07-03 16:49:15position of his own burgesses by granting them the right to succeed to their burgages freely, on the same terms as those of Stafford. He established a chaplain...
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Minggu, 2026-01-18 19:05:22Swords East and Swords West; and the townlands of: Ballymacartle, Bohammer, Burgage, Clonshagh, Maynetown, Saintdoolaghs, Snugborough, in the district electoral...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:14:12another from the bishop in 1234, which delimited the town and laid out burgage holdings in 1-acre (4,000 m2) lots at a rent of twelve pence per year....
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Selasa, 2026-07-28 03:10:47the sea across the High Street. Running back from the High Street were burgage plots or "rigs" of the burgesses; these narrow strips of land were at the...
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Senin, 2026-07-27 06:13:02property and transmit it at death; this was called burgage tenure. Each development plot or "burgage" consisted of around 0.25 acres (0.10 hectares). A...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 16:20:06walls can still be seen, while the street layout preserves the pattern of burgage plots. Although Elizabeth intended to grant a charter, the document was...
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Selasa, 2026-01-27 05:50:52subsequent years his political interest declined as he possessed fewer burgages at Downton. Eyre died unmarried on 7 June 1750. John Burke (1836). A Genealogical...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 16:30:03Henry I. The wide main street was designed for its market, and the narrow burgage plots running at right angles to it are typical of Norman architecture...
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Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:01:49Edgbaston on 6 April 1728. Soon after succeeding his father he bought two more burgages at Bramber, a rotten borough, giving him full control of the seat, for...
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Selasa, 2026-07-07 21:05:22shillings). In the towns, eligibility ranged from owning specific properties (burgages) to holding the status of a tax-paying citizen (Scot and Lot). A state...
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Jumat, 2026-06-12 22:52:43by holding festive market fairs and attracting settlers with offers of burgage plots replete with space for a house and garden. Documentary data such...
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Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:17:33of the Titles to Land (Scotland) Act, 1858, to Titles to Land held by Burgage Tenure; and to amend the said Act. (Repealed by Titles to Land Consolidation...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:16:41June 1405 Henry Chichele was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers. His mother, Agnes Pincheon, is said to have been of...
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Senin, 2026-07-27 18:27:43parliamentary borough as early as 1230, when there is a record of the grant of a burgage plot in the settlement. It is referred to as a burgus in a document of...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 09:34:15settle disputes arising from the day's dealings. By 1348, the town had 120 burgage plots (ownership of land used as a measure of status and importance in...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 23:46:03street and a slightly later store-house at the rear. It occupied a half-burgage plot within the late medieval town, and was built to run lengthwise down...
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Sabtu, 2022-10-29 00:00:26before 1086, gave to the Priory of Mortain, a cell of Marmoutier, eight burgages in Pevensey worth 5s. 6d., and probably also the manor of Withyham and...
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Selasa, 2026-06-16 11:43:31city and county annalist is quite evident; Clyn was not a member of the burgage population of Kilkenny but a man of the countryside. ... The reality is...
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Kamis, 2026-07-23 22:03:49form of municipal taxation; Boroughs in which only the ownership of a burgage property qualified a person to vote; Boroughs in which only members of...
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Jumat, 2026-07-03 23:44:27Henry III, the abbey obtained a charter to "make a borough" at Hales. Burgages were established at a rent of 12d. The burgesses were to receive any or...
Click to read more »Ralph Bell (MP)
Rabu, 2026-01-28 13:40:18father, who had a mansion house at Kirkgate, owned 22 of the borough's burgages. Bell's father and later Bell himself had sufficient electoral interest...
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Selasa, 2026-07-21 15:31:06electors were the owners of certain properties, which were marked by "burgage stones", one of these stones remains and can be seen with a descriptive...
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Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:32:07town planning, especially the presence of long, narrow and rectilinear burgage plots. Both parliamentary and royalist forces visited the town during the...
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Senin, 2026-03-23 10:30:02side of Town Hill. It is part of a continuous set of buildings, with the burgages stretching towards College Street at their rear. The building was likely...
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Minggu, 2026-01-18 00:27:13administrative county of Wicklow, the district electoral divisions of: Blessington, Burgage, Kilbride, Lackan, in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1; and...
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Rabu, 2026-07-29 06:02:27abbacy was a house known as "Ireland Hall." Royal permission to accept this burgage was sought in July 1407 by Prestbury and the convent of Shrewsbury Abbey...
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Rabu, 2026-06-24 02:45:28as the ‘burgh ditch’ in 1493 and the area within it was known as ‘the burgage’. By 1600 the moat was no longer being maintained and was becoming clogged...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 12:33:45Wales, including the building of Caerphilly Castle. By 1288 there were 378 burgage plots recorded in Trellech, which would have made it bigger than Cardiff...
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Kamis, 2026-06-25 14:14:27Heytesbury was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was reserved to the householders of specific properties or "burgage tenements" within...
Click to read more »Grosmont, Monmouthshire
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 18:32:02charter, possibly in 1219, and by 1250 there may have been as many as 160 burgage plots. It retained its corporation status until 1857, at which time it...
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Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:22:57making new Streets, and otherwise improving the Town of Galway. Richmond Burgage Pastures Act 1853 16 & 17 Vict. c. cci 15 August 1853 An Act for regulating...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:31:01borough rental records of 1296, at which point it was partly built upon with burgage plots, but was also the site of most of the few open fields remaining within...
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Senin, 2026-07-20 01:56:54established after the conquest, with motte-and-bailey castle, parish church and burgage plots. The town is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting...
Click to read more »Buttevant Franciscan Friary
Jumat, 2026-07-03 23:31:32subjecting it to that of the Anglo-Norman custody of Cork. In the medieval burgage of Buttevant, the friary porch was the place to make legal agreements,...
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Kamis, 2024-04-11 09:43:12stands today. The Gresle family directly leased land to tenants and created burgage tenements for indirect rent. In June 1215, Robert de Gresle was amongst...
Click to read more »Whitesmiths Arms
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:34:11Believed to date from the late 17th century, it is the oldest surviving burgage‑plot building in Wigan and among the oldest properties in the town centre...
Click to read more »Alte Brücke (Frankfurt)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 04:58:06bridge was in 1222 in the records of Frankfurt Cathedral, referring to a "burgage plot at the bridge" ("Hofstätte an der Brücke") belonging to a magistrate...
Click to read more »Gough-Calthorpe family
Jumat, 2026-07-10 09:09:09chairman of the East India Company and MP for Bramber, who purchased ancient burgages in the Bull Ring, an estate in Ladywood, and a 25-acre (100,000 m2) farm...
Click to read more »Thomas Medlycott (1662–1738)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:47:43increased his electoral influence at Milborne Port by acquiring additional burgages. At the 1705 English general election, Medlycott stood for the borough...
Click to read more »Robert D'Oyly
Senin, 2026-08-03 20:22:16would have been around 550 acres (220 ha). Robert, also, held a tenure (or burgage) in Buckingham held by a man of Azor, the son of Tote, who paid sixteen...
Click to read more »Listed buildings in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 20:01:26England, "Burgage Court, Southwell (1211517)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 September 2023 Historic England, "Burgage House Youth...
Click to read more »John Sharp (English politician)
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:50:511713, he invested heavily in South Sea Company stock and purchased 11 burgages in Ripon. In 1713, he was elected unopposed for Ripon and was re-elected...
Click to read more »1 Beorma Place
Jumat, 2026-02-27 11:54:53Broadway Malyan with a stepped tower profile inspired by the medieval burgage plots that once characterised the area. The tower employs a glazed curtain-wall...
Click to read more »Ardfinnan Woollen Mills
Selasa, 2026-08-18 05:10:33Factory Hill Road to Saint Finnian's Church, becoming the medieval town, or burgage, of Ardfynan. Frieze cloth locally flourished with 13th to 16th century...
Click to read more »Overton, Hampshire
Selasa, 2026-05-26 16:46:02to the bishop of Winchester for a market in "his manor of Overton" when burgage tenure was introduced. By this period Overton was becoming a major settlement...
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Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:19:52Houses and burgages 52°42′28″N 2°45′15″W / 52.7077°N 2.7541°W / 52.7077; -2.7541 (Shrewsbury) Newport, Shropshire Houses and burgages 52°46′09″N 2°22′43″W...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 07:10:441711. The inn also incorporates a former cottage to its rear built on a burgage plot. When it opened as an inn it was called The Star Inn, but later changed...
Click to read more »Blessington GAA
Minggu, 2023-12-03 05:21:43playing its games in the Burgage near to the cemetery. The club crest depicts St. Mark's Cross, a high cross was moved to Burgage cemetery when its original...
Click to read more »Marshfield, Gloucestershire
Kamis, 2025-12-04 17:55:20The layout conforms to that of a typical market town with long narrow burgage plot gardens extending back from the narrow frontages, and served by two...
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Sabtu, 2023-12-30 14:53:283275°W / 53.010278; -6.3275 (Glendalough) 280 St. Mark's Cross High Cross Burgage More 53°09′41″N 6°32′29″W / 53.161499°N 6.54141°W / 53.161499; -6.54141...
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Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:54:36Richard gave to them before and as his charter confirmed. Excepting our own burgage tenements in Neath. Given by the hand of W. de Gray our chancellor at Woodstock...
Click to read more »Nantclwyd y Dre
Selasa, 2026-08-18 18:01:34the inner garden to the rear, suggest that the site was originally two burgage plots which dated from when the town was laid out in the 13th century,...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-11 18:06:45the High Street) dates from about 1450 and incorporates no older fabric. Burgage plots—medieval land divisions with houses or other buildings which were...
Click to read more »Leasehold estate
Senin, 2026-07-20 10:42:11at sufferance. Forms no longer used[citation needed] include socage and burgage. When a landowner allows one or more persons, called "tenants", to use...
Click to read more »Guildhall of St George
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:20:22x 29 feet). The building occupies a long, narrow site which was once a burgage plot between King Street and the river. The theatre stands on the raised...
Click to read more »Bere Alston (constituency)
Rabu, 2026-06-24 13:14:20of a town hall, and indeed no municipal corporation. Bere Alston was a burgage borough, the right to vote resting with the freehold tenants of a number...
Click to read more »Plas Mawr
Rabu, 2026-07-22 14:59:28for an existing "mansion house" in Conwy, positioned in the middle of a burgage plot on what is now Crown Lane. More land to the north of this was purchased...
Click to read more »Robert Monckton (died 1722)
Kamis, 2026-02-19 07:12:03Lowther and Monckton had taken the precaution of securing a number of burgage votes in the borough and there was actually a sizeable Dissenting community...
Click to read more »Stockbridge, Hampshire
Minggu, 2026-08-09 13:08:29VI was discontinued. By the mid-Tudor era, under Edward VI, the wealthy burgages numbered 58, partly in consequence of this, in 1562 two members of parliament...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 14:57:33two Members of Parliament to the unreformed House of Commons. It had a burgage franchise, meaning that the right to vote was tied to ownership of certain...
Click to read more »Abbots Bromley
Minggu, 2026-07-05 22:25:57that the current settlement was a planned town – there is evidence of burgage plots, a grid pattern of streets and a wide market place. Abbas Bromley...
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Rabu, 2025-06-11 01:22:09Memorial, St Helen's Church, Saxby, Lincolnshire Plaque for Lord Byron, Burgage Manor, Southwell, Nottinghamshire Memorial to Arthur Troop, Christ Church...
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Minggu, 2026-07-19 04:58:16town in the present day shows that originally the town was made up of 46 burgage plots which were separated by a few small lanes which have developed to...
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Senin, 2026-07-27 13:36:20economic growth and generating revenue. The burgage system dating from that time and its associated burgage plots brought a form of self-organising design...
Click to read more »Morpeth, Northumberland
Jumat, 2026-07-31 02:49:12Newgate Street, with burgage plots leading off them. Traces of this layout remain: Old Bakehouse Yard off Newgate Street is a former burgage plot, as is Pretoria...
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Jumat, 2026-04-17 20:12:30packed farms (tofts) Toft Hill (disambiguation) Tofte (disambiguation) Burgage (Scots: toft), a medieval land term used in England and Wales, Ireland...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:23:09The bishops also tried to create some commercial growth through granting burgage tenure, limited freedoms and the right to hold a market, so that they could...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-18 05:49:18Maedbh Saunderson, in the course of which domestic medieval materials and burgage plots were uncovered, evidence of post-medieval structural development...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 10:15:07Conwy was only modestly successful, however, since by 1312, it had 124 burgage tenements, properties paying rent to the king, which made it more successful...
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 18:26:32including a collapsed wattle fence that had been a property line between burgage plots. This 1832 map of Perth, by James Gardner, shows the street, then...
Click to read more »Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840
Senin, 2026-08-03 02:13:39There were five boroughs, "the existence either of a corporation or of burgage tenure is noticed in ancient records, but no charter of incorporation [was]...
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Jumat, 2026-07-03 12:19:37reasonable allotments. And one town-lot in (the city of) Limerick to be held by burgage, with all its appurtenances. Wherefore I wish and strictly enjoin, that...
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Rabu, 2026-07-22 00:13:29the borough of Whitchurch, and except the common arable field called The Burgage Field. Whittlebury Inclosure Act 1797 37 Geo. 3. c. 69 Pr. 9 May 1797 An...
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Minggu, 2023-09-24 11:59:04sites, crannogs and tidal mills." St. Mark's Cross; formerly located in Burgage More, County Wicklow — this was flooded in the creation of Poulaphouca...
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Rabu, 2026-02-25 18:37:11Newcastle Kilcoole Rathdrum Burgage More 671 Lower Talbotstown Burgage Naas Burgage Moyle 322 Lower Talbotstown Burgage Naas Burkeen 63 Newcastle Rathnew...
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Rabu, 2026-02-25 18:09:58Town Rathdown Monkstown Rathdown Bullock 347 Rathdown Monkstown Rathdown Burgage 78 Coolock Balgriffin Dublin North Burrow 257 Coolock Howth Dublin North...
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Minggu, 2026-04-26 22:34:41Welshpool. Very probably an early 16th-century merchant's house, placed on a burgage plot between the High Street and Alfred Jones Court. Timber-framed building...
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Senin, 2026-01-19 16:15:36Buller family, and had his son Matthew elected, in 1802. Saltash being a burgage tenement, it was not a simple nomination. At Great Grimsby, a "notoriously...
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Rabu, 2026-07-29 04:02:25Book as part of Herefordshire, and expanded thereafter. There was early burgage development along Monnow Street, and the suburb of Overmonnow, west of...
Click to read more »Nicholas Barbon
Selasa, 2026-08-04 02:30:58gain immunity from prosecution by his creditors he bought a number of burgages in the rotten borough of Bramber in Sussex, which enabled him to be elected...
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Selasa, 2026-06-16 00:13:48Selfridges building (it will occupy the site of the city's last seven burgage plots ). Complete with state-of-the-art environmental and energy systems...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:24:43land (or tofts) given to owners of building plots (or burgages) by the River Aire, thus Burgage Men's Tofts. The burghers from whom Burmantofts takes...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:26:35daughter of Terence Charles Richards, (the chief geophysicist of BP) of The Burgage in Westerham, where the reception was held. One of the bridesmaids was...
Click to read more »North Main Street (Cork)
Kamis, 2026-03-12 20:19:43was divided into strips running perpendicular to the street, known as burgage plots. A number of archaeological excavations of the area have revealed...
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Minggu, 2026-07-05 23:11:22In the planted borough of Solihull the Lord of the Manor offered free burgage tenure in which residents were free, rent-paying burgesses, rather than...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:58:14Pierrepont Hall, Holme Pierrepont 1983: John Davenport Radford of The Burgage, Burgage Green, Southwell. 1984: Colonel James Mayo Alastair Gunn of Epperstone...
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Rabu, 2026-01-14 20:38:26of Dublin County Mid and Dublin County South. Transfer of Blessington, Burgage Kilbride and Lackan, in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1...
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Rabu, 2024-07-10 13:13:12Ballybought, Ballymore and Tipperkevin in County Kildare; Kilbride, Blessington, Burgage, Boystown, Hollywood, Crehelp, Tober, Dunlavin, Rathsallagh and part of...
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Rabu, 2026-06-24 13:14:04Alston elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons. Only a few burgage holders were entitled to vote; but as most, if not all, of these holdings...
Click to read more »Pembroke, Pembrokeshire
Minggu, 2026-07-19 01:12:13rebuilt over the centuries. A great many of the town's original medieval burgage plots survive and are divided by early stone walls that are of significant...
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Minggu, 2026-04-19 12:26:33FitzGerald granted the burgesses 96 burgages at an annual rent of 12d with the "liberties of Breteuil". Traces of burgage plots may survive as earthworks...
Click to read more »Bramber (constituency)
Jumat, 2026-07-03 21:34:59them with a degree of influence in the House of Commons. Bramber was a burgage borough – the vote was restricted to inhabitants of ancient houses in the...
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Minggu, 2025-12-21 16:47:50Cockermouth Cumberland Burgage holders 2 200 8 Retained two seats Derby Derbyshire Freemen 2 650 8 Retained two seats Ashburton Devon Burgage holders 2 100 9...
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Jumat, 2026-07-17 21:37:47Wiltshire, and one of the earliest in England. His officials were to lay out burgage plots for traders, artisans, and shopkeepers. The outline of these plots...
Click to read more »Low Pavement, Chesterfield
Kamis, 2024-12-12 19:01:36period the properties in Low Pavement were built on the northern edge of burgage plots that extended southwards beyond Beetwell Street to the River Hipper...
Click to read more »George Morton Pitt
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 16:47:38the estate of James Johnston who died in 1737 and bought in January 1740 burgages and freeholds from Sir William Lowther which with Lord Galway's interest...
Click to read more »Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale
Minggu, 2026-03-01 04:17:12at cards and on the turf. He also spent significant sums to secure the burgage tenures of Appleby, bringing that borough under the family's control. Appointed...
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Kamis, 2026-03-12 14:12:02Pembrokeshire and held the manor of Uggaton near Brighstone. They acquired three burgages in Newtown, Isle of Wight. In the 1754 general election Powell was returned...
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Selasa, 2026-07-14 19:20:33traders within a region outside their settlements. Properties known as Burgage tenures were a key feature, whose tenants had to be of the Burgher class...
Click to read more »Reginald Bainbrigg
Jumat, 2025-05-02 03:47:51succeeding headmasters of the grammar school, and the annual rental of a small burgage, amounting to 2s. 4d., to the head boy for the time being, provided he...
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Minggu, 2022-02-13 15:16:53Kildare and the Ballylinch Stud in County Kilkenny before being moved to the Burgage Stud in County Carlow. The best of his flat runners was Bob's Return, who...
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Senin, 2025-10-27 08:35:43on 11 October. Sea Moon began his career as a breeding stallion at the Burgage Stud in County Carlow, Ireland in 2016. In the 2011 World Thoroughbred...
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Selasa, 2026-07-14 12:07:11Frog Island Leicester, Hastings Road Leicester, Welford Road Nuneaton, Burgage Walk (ex NWMO&T Co) Nuneaton, Heath End Road Nuneaton, the former Empire...
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Sabtu, 2025-01-25 22:56:21tsubo-niwa – traditional Japanese equivalents of the domus and compluvium Burgage plot – narrow town lots in medieval Europe On signage at site, sign photographed...
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Selasa, 2025-03-25 18:43:08The part of the street near the town became built up, with houses on burgage plots. The Six Chimneys, a large timber-framed house, survived until 1941...
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Jumat, 2026-08-07 15:09:13public way leading from a typical high street to the open ground beyond the burgage plots. The Latin form is venella. A medina quarter (Arabic: المدينة القديمة...
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Selasa, 2026-03-31 07:51:43Ballingate, Ballinglen, Ballinguile, Ballybeg, Baltinglass, Blessington, Burgage, Carnew, Coolattin, Coolballintaggart, Coolboy, Cronelea, Donaghmore, Donard...
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Kamis, 2026-08-13 13:27:58strong tradition of demesne farming well into the 14th century. A survey of burgage tenure from 1258 survives, analysis of which indicates that demesne farming...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 03:37:10comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. Details of Buckfast Place from his inquisition post...
Click to read more »Knaresborough (constituency)
Jumat, 2026-06-26 15:00:14Knaresborough was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was confined to the proprietors of certain specific properties (or "burgage tenements") in...
Click to read more »Saltash (constituency)
Rabu, 2026-06-24 12:53:48the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start. Saltash was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain...
Click to read more »History of Alnmouth
Jumat, 2026-07-17 00:25:07medieval pattern of a road – now Northumberland Street – with long thin burgage plots running at right-angles to it. What preceded the Norman village is...
Click to read more »Otley Bridge
Jumat, 2025-11-28 05:50:17taking action to expand the settlement. This included the creation of burgage plots for merchants and a market. This as well as the presence of the Archbishop's...
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Selasa, 2026-07-14 19:31:11Hospitaller's register of chapter acts 1326–1339 were in possession of "the burgages in the town of Arfinan (Ardfinnan) and the church and all the tithes and...
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Minggu, 2026-06-21 14:25:03Dominicans in Kilmallock (1291) and Glanworth (c. 1300).[citation needed] The burgage of Buttevant developed to the north of the keep and eventually increased...
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Kamis, 2026-07-02 14:37:01the right to vote was vested in the holders of the tightly controlled burgage tenements — count-of-head polls were accordingly rare — for, the last contested...
Click to read more »Garendon Abbey
Selasa, 2026-08-04 19:15:55by Robert. He endowed the abbey with 690 acres of land in Garendon, a Burgage tenement in Leicester and land at Dishley, Shepshed and Ringolthorpe. Ranulf...
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Rabu, 2026-08-12 19:48:36Arundel's affinity – were among a group of Shropshire gentry who granted a burgage in Shrewsbury, known as Ireland Hall, to Shrewsbury Abbey for pious purposes...
Click to read more »Listed buildings in Cleobury Mortimer
Sabtu, 2023-02-25 01:02:45England, retrieved 17 April 2018 Historic England, "Barn at extreme end of Burgage Plot behind 34-37 Lower Street, Cleobury Mortimer (1390754)", National...
Click to read more »Haddington
Jumat, 2026-06-26 01:37:07of market stalls. To the north and south the medieval rigg pattern of burgage plots can still be observed with narrow buildings fronting the main streets...
Click to read more »Micklegate
Minggu, 2025-11-16 18:04:34- which evolved to become "Micklegate". During the medieval era, long burgage plots with narrow street frontages were allocated, and still form the basis...
Click to read more »Government in Anglo-Saxon England
Minggu, 2026-07-26 04:20:01necessary for trade, and freedom from service to a lord. An early form of burgage tenure already existed. The portreeve was an important town officer. In...
Click to read more »Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:24:32Parliament for Pontefract in 1729. He was forced to sell his Pontefract burgages, from which he derived most of his influence in the constituency, in straightened...
Click to read more »Economics of English towns and trade in the Middle Ages
Rabu, 2026-01-07 02:51:06tax system was finally abolished by Edward III. In the English towns the burgage tenure for urban properties was established early on in the medieval period...
Click to read more »Cowbridge town wall
Rabu, 2024-02-07 04:25:03believed that the purpose of the wall was to protect the Lord of Glamorgan's burgage plots and to provide a way of collecting tolls from the town's market,...
Click to read more »History of English land law
Senin, 2026-08-03 02:29:10military tenure, called also tenure in chivalry, or socage (including burgage and petit serjeanty), or frankalmoin, by which ecclesiastical corporations...
Click to read more »Listed buildings in Midhurst
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 08:52:1673845137°W / 50.986808; -0.73845137 (St Oswald's) 1276031 Q26565574 Burgage House and Knockhundred Gallery II Knockhundred Row 26 November 1987 SU8869021589...
Click to read more »Gabriel Pleydell
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 14:38:09Reform Act, many members represented "pocket boroughs". These contained burgage tenements, the holders of which were given suffrage. Wealthy landowners...
Click to read more »Barwick, Somerset
Senin, 2026-02-09 01:20:04shown as a new town and in an Inquisition or survey of 1273 there were 74 burgages each paying 10d (ten pence) a year. The total population of the borough...
Click to read more »Island House, Laugharne
Selasa, 2026-04-28 16:35:34although was further enlarged over time. Almost all of Prydderch's township burgage plots were also inherited two hundred and fifty years later by the final...
Click to read more »William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber
Senin, 2026-06-08 11:53:09encroachments onto the abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, burgage tenements, and a channel used to fill his moat. Braose also had to organise...
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Minggu, 2026-06-21 11:26:44Liberty of Havering/Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower Romford Dengie (Maldon (burgage of town excluded) to Burnham and Tillingham) East Essex South East Essex...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-04 04:49:23of the parish of Chippenham in Wiltshire. However, as Chippenham was a burgage borough, in which the right to vote was confined to the resident occupiers...
Click to read more »List of national monuments in County Wicklow
Kamis, 2026-07-09 04:11:383275°W / 53.010278; -6.3275 (Glendalough) 280 St. Mark's Cross High Cross Burgage More 53°09′41″N 6°32′29″W / 53.161499°N 6.54141°W / 53.161499; -6.54141...
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Senin, 2026-06-22 13:22:35of any direct property in the votes (as might have been the case in a burgage borough where the right to vote could literally be bought and sold) – and...
Click to read more »Bromyard
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 11:17:56information about the town's first few centuries. Bromyard contained 255 burgage and landowner tenancies in the 1280s which paid a total rent of £23 10s...
Click to read more »Appleby Grammar School
Rabu, 2026-07-22 14:54:27first mention of a school in Appleby is shown by the sale in 1452 of a burgage house made by John Marshall, Vicar of St Michael's, to Thomas Lord Clifford...
Click to read more »History of Manchester
Jumat, 2026-07-10 09:04:58the lords of the manor, they directly leased land to tenants and created burgage tenements for indirect rent; as well as containing a house, these plots...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 02:04:22Shurgreave Hill Field, Hargreave Field, Eachells (or Nechells) Field and Burgage Field in the manor of Brewood. There were also Quarry Field and Church...
Click to read more »Index of law articles
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:14:37Bulk sale – Bulk sales acts – Bulk transfer – Burden – Burden of proof – Burgage – Burglary – Business – Business ethics – Business invitee – But for rule –...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-02 11:18:25096214; 0.53678146 (Burgage Plot Cottage 10 Yards to North of Brown's Architects Office) 1084803 Upload Photo Q26369222 Burgage Plot Cottage 15 Yards...
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Minggu, 2026-03-15 16:10:35Burgage House II 4, College Precincts 5 April 1971 SO8509054508 52°11′19″N 2°13′10″W / 52.188611°N 2.2195160°W / 52.188611; -2.2195160 (Burgage House)...
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Rabu, 2026-07-29 16:00:25of the triangular marketplace that became the Bull Ring; the selling of burgage plots on the surrounding frontages granting privileges in the market and...
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Rabu, 2026-08-12 19:57:39commitments however the de Quincys did provide a fishing in Mertoun Loch, a burgage at Haddington and lands at Gledswood near Bemerside. Devorguilla's main...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-20 15:55:50are the earliest settlements outside the walls of the castle. Some have burgage plots at the back, established by de Grey in 1283. The plots and linear...
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Selasa, 2026-01-27 05:41:41comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. This house, later known as the "Abbot's Lodge", was...
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Rabu, 2026-06-24 12:40:28of Truro. Grampound's linear layout is of Norman origin, with long thin burgage plots extending away from the main street, Fore Street (A390). Most of...
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Senin, 2026-08-17 22:40:121495433 Originated as two houses, 13 and 15 Old Market Place, on a medieval burgage plot, the building was later adapted for commercial use. By the 1860s No...
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Selasa, 2026-04-21 20:49:29Prestbury The Burgage (road), Prestbury Prestbury Location within Gloucestershire Population 6,981 OS grid reference SO971239 Civil parish Prestbury...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 18:09:27the Transference of Lands and other Heritages in Scotland not held in Burgage Tenure. (Repealed by Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 (31...
Click to read more »John Machell
Senin, 2026-08-03 11:01:19together with John Michell, and in 1681 John Machell, who had acquired burgages in Horsham, successfully stood in the place of Eversfield and represented...
Click to read more »Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
Senin, 2026-08-17 23:30:39the walls. The towns had varying levels of success. Measured in terms of burgages, town properties rented from the Crown by citizens, Conwy had 99 around...
Click to read more »Whitecross Street, Monmouth
Minggu, 2025-09-14 18:48:22around 1300. Most of the street's buildings were originally based on narrow burgage plots, with gable ends facing the street. St James House in Whitecross...
Click to read more »Downton (constituency)
Kamis, 2026-06-25 14:05:57Downton was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote rested solely with the freeholders of 100 specified properties or "burgage tenements"; it...
Click to read more »Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:22:31transferred to a borough seat at Cockermouth, where he enjoyed a strong burgage interest until 1679. However, he proved to be one of the least active Members...
Click to read more »Grade II listed buildings in Chester (central)
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:24:451858 (largely rebuilt) Offices and shops built on the site of a medieval burgage plot containing a town house with an undercroft and designed by James Harrison...
Click to read more »Weobley
Jumat, 2026-07-10 09:08:57indicate an access route to the back ends of a set of thin land strips called burgage tenements. One of these would comprise a town house with a smallholding...
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Rabu, 2026-01-14 21:23:35owned 10301602 Burgage House Vigors Idrone West 52°43′28″N 6°52′01″W / 52.72442758°N 6.86699044°W / 52.72442758; -6.86699044 (Burgage House) c. 1765...
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Selasa, 2026-07-28 15:33:06would have accounted for much of the economic activity of the city. The burgage plots of Carlisle were owned by the Crown and some by the religious houses...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 05:34:01Common claimed by, and belonging to, the Owners and Proprietors of ancient Burgages and Tenements in Ripon, Littlethorpe, and Bondgate, in the County of York;...
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Jumat, 2026-08-07 19:54:12Common claimed by, and belonging to, the Owners and Proprietors of ancient Burgages and Tenements, in Ripon, Littlethorpe, and Bondgate, in the County of York;...
Click to read more »Economy of England in the Middle Ages
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:04:38the national income had dropped considerably. In the English towns the burgage tenure for urban properties was established early on in the medieval period...
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Rabu, 2026-04-08 23:58:53dates from the 12th century. The village High Street was laid out as the burgages of a new town by the lord of the manor in the late 13th century and was...
Click to read more »Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine
Jumat, 2026-07-31 03:55:26inherited the property of Hills, with 190 acres, at Horsham, together with a burgage at Horsham, several properties in London and in other parts of England...
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Jumat, 2026-05-15 18:42:29Ballintemple Ballykine Ballynure Baltinglass Blessington Boystown Bray Burgage Calary Carnew Castlemacadam Crecrin Crehelp Crosspatrick Delgany Derrylossary...
Click to read more »Dispute between Darnhall and Vale Royal Abbey
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 19:54:24In 1336, Abbot Peter denied the villages of Over rights of admission of burgage in the newly chartered borough; this prompted the Over villagers to join...
Click to read more »List of Dublin bridges and tunnels
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:00:26half of the 17th-century" R411 Ballymore Eustace Poulaphouca Bridge R758 Burgage Moyle Bridge Ballyward Bridge L8375 Ballysmuttan Bridge L4377 Pedestrian...
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Selasa, 2026-08-04 21:44:57confirmed to my burgesses of Leeds and their heirs franchise and free burgage and their tofts and with each toft half an acre of land for tillage to...
Click to read more »Thomas Postlethwaite (MP)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:50:31representation in the northwest of England, and who had bought up the burgages at Haslemere in 1780 to obtain sole control over its elections. Returned...
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Selasa, 2026-06-16 21:45:25Ballingate, Ballinglen, Ballinguile, Ballybeg, Baltinglass, Blessington, Burgage, Carnew, Coolattin, Coolballintaggart, Coolboy, Cronelea, Donaghmore, Donard...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-25 07:58:24borough was established next to the castle in November 1284; it had 23 burgage plots, the same number as Caernarfon, but does not appear to have been...
Click to read more »Cockermouth (constituency)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:21:31ancient privileges. The right of election in Cockermouth was vested in the burgage tenants of the borough, of whom there were about 300 in 1832. Cockermouth...
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Minggu, 2026-06-14 19:53:57and market cross is typical of Norman urban layouts, as are the narrow burgage plots running at right angles to many streets are typical of Norman architecture...
Click to read more »Plympton House
Senin, 2026-06-08 19:06:19development of the medieval town reached as far east as the site. The pattern of burgage plots suggests that it did not but it might reasonably be expected that...
Click to read more »Gardening in Scotland
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:13:48sometimes adjoined a hunting park. Urban houses had gardens as part of burgage plots that stretched behind houses, often used to produce vegetables such...
Click to read more »Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868
Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:16:29Heritages in Scotland not held in Burgage Tenure. The whole act. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 49 Transference of Lands (Burgage Tenure) (Scotland) Act 1847 An Act...
Click to read more »46 High Street, Nantwich
Rabu, 2025-10-01 09:22:18the house, bequeathed to his wife (who died in 1639), as "my Messuage or Burgage lyinge and beinge in Wich Malbank". The post-mortem inventory was valued...
Click to read more »Charles Eversfield
Senin, 2026-01-26 11:46:49helped the Duke of Newcastle in county elections. In 1737 he sold his burgages at Horsham to the Ingrams, and in 1741 was returned as MP for Steyning...
Click to read more »County Borough of Leeds
Rabu, 2026-08-05 17:18:53west. The borough consisted of a single street with approximately thirty burgage plots. By the seventeenth century the title of praetor had been abandoned...
Click to read more »Macreddin
Selasa, 2025-10-21 11:25:32pasture, and 276 acres of bog, mountain, wood, and underwood" in free burgage, and three smaller parcels of land in socage to each fund a specific purpose:...
Click to read more »Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)
Sabtu, 2025-09-06 03:54:37restricted to the owners of certain properties in its main streets of its burgage, returning two 'burgesses' as they were sometimes called. Its electorate...
Click to read more »Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust
Senin, 2026-05-11 22:21:16made to the Merchant's House Trust in Marlborough to enable it to buy the burgage plot associated with the Merchant's House. Grants have included one to...
Click to read more »Brooke, Ilchester
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 12:07:23Brooke was described for the first time as a manor, held in-chief in free burgage. He made his seat at Weycroft in the parish of Axminster in Devon, "with...
Click to read more »Robert Corbet (died 1420)
Jumat, 2026-04-24 17:37:05Sussex – all Arundel allies – obtained a licence from the king to grant a burgage called Ireland Hall in Shrewsbury to Shrewsbury Abbey. The grant was to...
Click to read more »Ancient Priors
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 17:38:43road from London to Brighton and Shoreham on the English Channel coast. Burgage plots—medieval land divisions with houses or other buildings which were...
Click to read more »Austrian walled towns
Kamis, 2026-07-02 01:40:20corresponding to adjacent burgage holdings, suggesting that particular length of wall was the responsibility of the burgage holder. The walls at Drosendorf...
Click to read more »Whitchurch (constituency)
Senin, 2026-06-22 18:57:51if the freeholder was a woman). Whitchurch was therefore in effect a "burgage" borough (one where the vote was tied to ownership of specific properties)...
Click to read more »Thomas de Littleton
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:08:20or the spiritual tenure by which churchmen held. In the description of burgage tenure and tenure in villeinage, the life of which consists in the validity...
Click to read more »Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon
Rabu, 2026-07-29 16:04:38of the estates at Westbury, Wiltshire, but he retained control of the burgages and hence the disposal of the Parliamentary seats for Westbury. The 4th...
Click to read more »Elizabeth Glaister
Selasa, 2026-06-23 03:05:53"The Burgage" in Southwell is now a listed building...
Click to read more »Steyning (constituency)
Selasa, 2026-06-23 09:46:00houses" and of houses built on the site of ancient houses, in effect a burgage franchise; but the restoration of the householders' rights does not seem...
Click to read more »Holdingham
Jumat, 2025-11-28 07:57:15New Sleaford (as it became known); they granted it limited liberties and burgage tenure. An estate survey of 1258, however, shows that tenants in Holdingham...
Click to read more »Hindon, Wiltshire
Kamis, 2026-03-26 15:13:17the main tenements flanked either side of the High Street, with narrow burgage plots running behind the buildings. By c. 1250 there were some 150 houses...
Click to read more »Josias Porcher
Rabu, 2026-07-29 08:36:56borough of Bodmin. In the same year, he also brokered the purchase of the burgages of Old Sarum from Camelford by Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon. He...
Click to read more »Kilbride, County Wicklow
Rabu, 2026-07-22 03:57:25previously in the Union of Rathmore, was united with the parishes of Burgage and Boystown in the Union of Blessington. George Moore was responsible...
Click to read more »Droitwich (constituency)
Jumat, 2026-06-26 12:15:42franchise were unique to Droitwich, in practice it in many ways resembled a burgage borough, and like most of those came under the influence of a local magnate...
Click to read more »Thomas Bell (mayor of Gloucester)
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 01:26:48tenement producing income of 22s. The pair also purchased in 1548 two burgages formerly owned by the Chantry of St Mary within St Mary de Lode Church...
Click to read more »Norwich Market
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 14:37:14and 42 stalls. That year, 52s of annual rent was owed to the King in burgage. Over 56% of all of the city's acquisitions recorded in the Norwich Domesday...
Click to read more »John de Pulteney
Senin, 2026-06-08 08:49:45Misterton. Land at Dadlington. In The City of London: Various rents and burgages. In Middlesex: The manor of “Poplar in Stebbenheth” (i.e. Poplar in Stepney)...
Click to read more »Alfred Edwin Jones
Minggu, 2026-06-28 08:56:44architect was much in demand. Some of his residential projects included 'The Burgage' in Dalkey, 'Rock Lodge' in Limerick, Stratford College in Rathgar, The...
Click to read more »John Sleyne
Kamis, 2026-07-23 04:07:001616 and 1634 show that John Sleyne (probably Sleyne's father) held a Burgage at Cloyne, This suggests quite strongly that it is this latter third Ballymacsliney...
Click to read more »List of townlands of County Carlow
Senin, 2022-04-11 08:18:58Rathvilly Hacketstown Shillelagh Bunnagurragh 52 Forth Barragh Enniscorthy Burgage 83 Idrone West Wells Carlow Burtonhall Demesne 162 Carlow Killerrig Carlow...
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Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:41:17Wicklow R757 – Laragh – Glendalough, County Wicklow R758 – Lockstown – Burgage Moyle, County Wicklow R759 – Tinode – Sally Gap – Draghmore, County Wicklow...
Click to read more »Early life of Lord Byron
Rabu, 2026-05-06 02:15:04October. While not at school or college, Byron lived with his mother at Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Although there was some antagonism...
Click to read more »Edward Monckton
Minggu, 2026-04-12 12:05:13borough was Pontefract, secured by the first Viscount's purchase of 77 burgages, and represented in Parliament by Moncktons for more than 70 years. The...
Click to read more »Franciscan Friary, Lichfield
Jumat, 2026-07-03 23:40:46Bishop Stavenby founded the Friary when he granted the friars ‘certain free burgages in the town for them to set their house on’. The Friary was treated very...
Click to read more »Architecture of Wales
Jumat, 2026-08-14 02:54:35origin of the name 'Royal House'. It occupies one of the original Medieval burgage plots laid out around 1291. The long range has three parts with a house...
Click to read more »Caernarfon town walls
Jumat, 2026-07-24 10:06:07did not prove a successful settlement, however; by 1298 it had only 59 burgage tenements—properties paying rent to the king—making it far less prosperous...
Click to read more »Templeton, Pembrokeshire
Senin, 2026-05-18 05:02:33respected plots extending behind each dwelling. These houses and plots, the "burgages" of the Middle Ages, form a coherent unit imposed on the landscape and...
Click to read more »Robert de Cheyneston, Abbot of Vale Royal
Kamis, 2024-10-10 02:41:52King's escheator over a matter of his unlicensed acquisition of twelve burgages of land in the village of Over. For this, he paid a fine of £10 and received...
Click to read more »Peter, Abbot of Vale Royal
Kamis, 2024-10-10 02:40:56the Abbot Peter took from Randolph son of John, surnamed Horlepot, one burgage, because bond tenants cannot hold free land." Physically violent expressions...
Click to read more »Briget Paget
Selasa, 2026-07-28 22:18:47manorial property in Cheshire, or to have resided in any other seat than a burgage of Nantwich." All branches of the family seem to have invested in residential...
Click to read more »Newtown, Hampshire
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:51:49and Maud his wife to Sir Nicholas atte Thorne their son, chaplain, of a burgage in Newtown (Nova Villa juxta Sandelford) between the brook called 'Aleburne'...
Click to read more »Tilgate Park
Jumat, 2026-08-14 19:34:13market charter, and evidence has been found of ironworking on its first burgage tenements. Iron ore outcropped in the clay around Crawley as well as in...
Click to read more »Listed buildings in Stow-on-the-Wold
Rabu, 2026-03-11 01:04:11Q26381231 Burgage House II Sheep Street 29 April 1983 SP1918525649 51°55′45″N 1°43′21″W / 51.929029°N 1.722398°W / 51.929029; -1.722398 (Burgage House)...
Click to read more »Mornington, County Meath
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 14:57:31sidelined the settlement. Historian B.J. Graham notes that in 1235, "a burgage in the vill Marenariorium, now known as Mornington ... was included in...
Click to read more »Westgate (Wakefield)
Minggu, 2025-10-12 03:22:59the part of the street nearest the town centre was lined with houses on burgage plots. A gatehouse was constructed across the street, by the location of...
Click to read more »Jukebox Jury (horse)
Jumat, 2026-03-27 21:31:12Etzean near Beerfelden in Germany. In December 2017 he moved to stand at Burgage Stud in Leighlinbridge, Ireland. He had his first Grade 1 winner just 3...
Click to read more »History of trade and industry in Birmingham
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 17:44:05triangular marketplace that becomes the Birmingham Bull Ring; the selling of burgage plots on the surrounding frontages granting privileges in the market and...
Click to read more »Cornwall House
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:12:29constructed in several stages, and occupies the sites of at least three burgages. In 1678 it was known as the Great House and was owned by George Milborne...
Click to read more »Thomas Prestbury
Kamis, 2026-06-18 15:59:26them was a house known as "Ireland Hall." Royal permission to accept this burgage was sought in July 1407 by Prestbury and the convent of Shrewsbury Abbey...
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