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Walnut Street Historic District is a national historic district located at North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana. It encompasses 17 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential of North Vernon. The district developed between about 1880 and 1950, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman style ...
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A large royal estate existed at North Petherton in 1084 and constituted a hundred; assessed at 38 hides, 3 virgates, and ½ ferling. [5] At the time of the Norman invasion the hundred covered a large area corresponding, today, roughly to a north–south corridor along the M5 motorway from Junction 25 near Taunton, to north of Junction 23 at Stretcholt, and east–west from Athelney to Goathurst.
The Royal Forest was probably similar in area to the Saxon Hundred of North Petherton. [6] According to the late 13th century Hundred Rolls, King Henry II of England (died 1189) gave William of Wrotham lands at North Petherton. [7] Between 1513 and 1535 Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham, Devon was the keeper of North Petherton Park. [8]
It is an exceptional and unusual example of Anglo-Saxon jewellery. There is a replica of the jewel in the Church of St Mary, North Petherton. Maunsel House at North Newton, which was within the area of the earlier park, was built in the late 14th or early 15th century. Between 1648 and 1726 it was owned by the Bacon family who turned some the ...
Goathurst was part of the hundred of Andersfield. [2]Originally part of the Royal Forest of North Petherton, its first squire owned [3] Goathurst's St Edward's church, a Grade I listed building [4] which includes a 19th-century monument to three-year-old Isabella Kemeys, showing the child lying on a pillow holding a broken flower.
The Big Walnut Preserve, also called the Big Walnut Creek Preserve, is a 2,400-acre complex of largely forested lands located in Putnam County, Indiana, near Bainbridge. Identified as a beech–maple forest with a substantial admixture of tulip poplar , the wooded land parcel complex was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1985.