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The priory dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St James was founded by Reiner le Fleming, Lord of the manor of Wath upon Dearne, in 1155 during the reign of Henry II. [ 1 ] The priory gives its name to the Kirklees metropolitan district council, formed in 1974 and including the towns of Huddersfield , Dewsbury and Batley , though the priory is ...
Although the inscription is probably a forgery, there may have been a grave marker on this site as early as the 16th century. John Leland, in his Collectanea (compiled in the 1530s), mentions the tradition that Robin Hood is buried near Kirklees Priory, [8] but the earliest definite reference to the presence of a gravestone is found in Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (1569).
Kirklees Hall is a 16th-century Grade I listed [1] Jacobean hall, close to the English village of Clifton in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The first evidence of a hall constructed at Kirklees was that of Sir Thomas Gargrave , who conveyed the property to the Pilkington family.
Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley , Birstall , Cleckheaton , Dewsbury , Heckmondwike , Holmfirth , Huddersfield , Meltham , Mirfield and Slaithwaite .
The Armytage Baronetcy, of Kirklees in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 July 1738 [1] for Samuel Armytage, high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1739. He was the great-grandson of Edward Armytage, younger brother of John Armytage, father of the first Baronet of the 1641 creation.
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church . Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines , the Cistercians , or the Charterhouses ).
The Scarborough Historic District is a national historic district located in the suburban community of Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York.The 376-acre (152 ha) district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and contains seven historically and architecturally significant properties dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
The following properties and districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the city and town of Poughkeepsie, New York, including the hamlet of New Hamburg. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in an online map by ...