Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grafton Manor (13 miles north-east of Worcester and 2 1/2 miles south-west of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) was established before the Norman Conquest. [1] Grafton means "settlement at or near the wood" and may indicate a role in woodland management within a larger estate, for instance.
The descendant of an influential landowning family (his grandfather John Talbot (died 1549) was lord of the manor of Albrighton, Shropshire, residing at Pepperhill in Shropshire and Grafton), John Talbot became a member of Lincoln's Inn, 10 February 1555–6. [2] He was member of Parliament for Droitwich in 1572. [3]
Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1427 – 8 July 1486) of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire, was an English nobleman who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side. He was executed by Henry VII following his fighting for Richard III and his role in the Stafford and Lovell rebellion.
The Honour of Grafton is a contiguous set of manors in the south of Northamptonshire, England up to the county's eastern border with Buckinghamshire. Its dominant legacies are semi-scattered Whittlewood Forest and a William Kent wing of Wakefield Lodge in the body of that woodland.
Grafton Regis is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, on the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is east of the A508 road , on which it has a short frontage and two bus stops, and is around 8 miles (13 km) south of Northampton and 9 miles (14 km) north of Milton Keynes .
Dodford Priory: Dodford, Dodford with Grafton, Bromsgrove: Farmhouse: Early 17th century: 23 April 1952: 1100095: Upload Photo: Grafton Manor and Chapel Adjoining to South West : Dodford with Grafton, Bromsgrove
Upton Warren was a Manor, for many years inherited alongside Grafton first in the hands of John de Grafton, then the Staffords, followed by the Talbots and Earls of Shrewsbury. [ 3 ] Little and Great Cooksey
HMS Grafton, a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1700, and captured by the French in 1707; HMS Grafton, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1709, rebuilt in 1725 and broken up in 1744; HMS Grafton, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1750 and sold in 1767; HMS Grafton, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1771