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Little Marlow is located along the north bank of the River Thames, about a mile east of Marlow. The toponym "Marlow" is derived from the Old English for "land remaining after the draining of a pool". In 1015 it was recorded as Merelafan. Little Marlow is surrounded by the Little Marlow Lakes Country Park.
Fern is a hamlet in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England. Historically this was a wasteland area of the parish, off the Marlow to Bourne End road. A workhouse was built here in 1781, which was a productive needlework and embroidery manufactory during the Victorian times. After the workhouse was sold to private hands in the ...
The Moorcock Inn, a pub near to the Settle-Carlisle Railway at Garsdale Head [118] The Old Queen's Head, opened as a public house in the mid-19th century, but is one of the oldest Grade II* listed buildings in Sheffield, dating from around 1475. The Queen in the pub's name is thought to be Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned in Sheffield ...
The rector of Finchley, Thomas Reader White, refused to renew the lease on the house and the inn did not move to its present location as the New Queen’s Head, in East End Road until the 1860s. White renamed the buildings Finchley Hall and used it to house a school of the same name which later became Christ's College Finchley .
Well End is a hamlet in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England. [1] [2] It is situated on the north-west side of the village of Bourne End.Although it lies in a separate parish, it is geographically contiguous with and subordinate to Bourne End; but unlike most of the hamlets consumed by its larger neighbour, it retains a distinct character, and the use of the name is common ...
Westhorpe House is a 31,937 square feet (2,967.0 m 2) Grade II listed building near Little Marlow which was the home of Maria Nugent and Field marshal Sir George Nugent.The Main House is 20,535 square feet (1,907.8 m 2) and the Coach House is 4,027 square feet (374.1 m 2).
By 1801 there were 14 houses in Little Sutton. [5] One building, the 1676 Little Sutton Cottage, survives on Sutton Lane South, facing the main A4 dual carriageway; it is now Grade II listed. [6] [7] The village inn, the Queen's Head, now called the Hole in the Wall, is on Sutton Lane North, just across the A4. The building, much altered in ...
Hedsor, which dates back to 1166, was once the home of Princess Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, mother of George III and the founder of Kew Gardens.The house and its 85-acre park overlooking the Thames then regularly welcomed the Kings and Queens from Windsor Castle as the home of Lord Boston from 1764.