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Leigh is a civil parish in the district of East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 20 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Sir John was buried by the side of his wife, in All Saints Church, Church Leigh, the parish church of Leigh, Staffordshire, where a handsome marble monument richly gilded, was erected to her memory. The manor of Leigh (and the manor house known as Park Hall in Church Leigh) was acquired by the Aston family on the marriage of Sir Thomas Aston to ...
Leigh is a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. The parish includes the village of Church Leigh , together with the settlements of Withington, Upper Leigh, Lower Leigh, Morrilow Heath, Middleton Green, Dodsley, Godstone, Nobut and Field.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
The eldest, John Fleetwood, a clerk of Chancery by 1535, acquired a large estate mainly in Staffordshire and Lancashire, in each of which counties he was twice high sheriff; of the two other brothers, the elder, Edmund Fleetwood, entered the Charterhouse at Sheen and the younger, Robert Fleetwood, became a Clerk of the Petty Bag and was father ...
The lands at Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire were held by the king at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086, not by the fictitious Thurstan Basset. Further, Drayton Bassett only came to the Basset family through the marriage of Ralph’s son Richard Basset to Matilda Ridel (granddaughter of Hugh earl of Chester) in 1120x3.
The county symbol, the Staffordshire Knot, is seen on an Anglian stone cross that dates from around the year 805. The cross still stands in Stoke churchyard. Thus the Knot is either i) an ancient Mercian symbol or ii) a symbol adopted from the Irish Christianity, Christianity having been brought to Staffordshire by Irish monks from Lindisfarne about AD 650.
A fine rower who represented Oxford in the 1858 Boat Race [2] he was ordained in 1862 and was a curate at Baldersby, Rector of Leigh, Staffordshire and then a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral until 1888 when he became Archdeacon of Stoke. [3] A noted scholar, [4] he was the Dean of Rochester from 1904 until 1913, [5] where there is a memorial ...
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