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Finchingfield
Finchingfield is a village in the Braintree district of North Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately from Thaxted, with the nearest larger towns being Saffron Walden and Braintree. Nearby villages include Great Bardfield, Great Sampford, and Wethersfield. History There has been a settlement in Finchingfield since historical records of the area began. Archaeological evidence suggests a Roman villa once stood 400 metres south-southwest of today's village church. The place-name 'Finchingfield ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Fincingefelda,'' meaning 'the field of Finc or his people'. The village was an official stop for horse-drawn coaches travelling from London to Norwich. Spains Hall, the nearby Elizabethan country house, was built in the early fifteenth century. The hall is named after Hervey de Ispania, who held the manor at the time of the 1086 ''Domesday Book''. Since then, the land has been owned by four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck End Mill, Finchingfield
Duck End Mill, Letch's Mill or Finchingfield Post Mill is a grade II listed Post mill at Finchingfield, Essex, England which has been restored. History ''Duck End Mill'' was built in the mid eighteenth century, dates of 1756, 1760 1773 and 1777 being recorded in the mill. It was originally built as an open trestle mill, the roundhouse being added in 1840. The mill was insured for £50 in 1790 and £100 in 1794. The mill was working until c. 1890, and had an all wood windshaft to the last. This was replaced by the cast iron one from Gainsford End Mill, Toppesfield in the 1950s. A replacement wooden windshaft has since been fitted. Description ''Duck End Mill'' is a post mill with a single storey roundhouse. The mill is winded by a tailpole. It has four Spring sails. There was one pair of millstone Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains. They are sometimes referred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornish Hall End
Cornish Hall End is a village on the B1057 road three miles north of Finchingfield and south of Steeple Bumpstead in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The main part of the village is a ribbon development of about 60 houses on either side of the road with many outlying farms, hamlets and individual houses. It is approximately from Braintree, Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden, and about from Haverhill in Suffolk. Cornish Hall End is served by a Parish Council which also represents Finchingfield. Its neighbouring villages are Finchingfield, Stambourne, and the Sampfords ( Great Sampford and Little Sampford). Near the village at Herkstead Hall Farm is one of the sources of the River Colne, Essex. It was one of the places studied in the Survey of English Dialects. It is also situated in the small region where the flora Oxlip ''Primula elatior'', the oxlip (or true oxlip), is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to nutrient-poor and cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spains Hall
Spains Hall is an Elizabethan era, Elizabethan English country house, country house near Finchingfield in Essex, England. The building has been Grade I listed since 1953. The hall is named after Hervey de Ispania, who held the manorialism, manor at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. From then until 2019, the land was continuously owned and occupied by three families: the de Ispania family, the Kempe family, who acquired it when Margery de Ispania married Nicholas Kempe in the early fifteenth century, and the Ruggles family (later the Ruggles-Brise family). History After the Kempe line ended, the house was bought in 1760 by Samuel Ruggles, a Tailor, clothier from Bocking, Essex, Bocking. His descendants, the Ruggles-Brise family, lived in the house until recently. Other occupants include Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet (1882–1942), and his son, Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet (1908–2007). The house and land The current house dates to c. 1570, with earlier re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |