The latest post on my blog concerns the Bingham family, and the entirely delightful Bingham's Melcombe (Dorset), which they owned for some 650 years until 1895: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/03/629-...
Yet another new post on my blog (I'm flying this month while the weather outside is frightful); this time concerning a family with a very smart house in Sussex, where every generation has worked in a different field, which is so unusual: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/01/625-...
Watercolour of Stockton House by John Buckler, 1810
Great Chamber of Stockton House in 1905
White Parlour of Stockton House in 1905
Shadrach Room chimneypiece at Stockton House.
The latest post on my blog concerns a wonderful Jacobean house in Wiltshire and the family which owned and altered it in the 18th and 19th centuries: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2026/01/624-...
Haines Hill (Berkshire), a house of the 1630s that was partially rebuilt c.1760
Chilton House, Chilton Foliat (Hants), a house of c.1755-58, demolished in 1965.
Wymering Manor, Portsmouth (Hants): a house of the 1580s, much altered in the 19th and early 20th century.
Manydown Park, Wootton St Lawrence (Hampshire), a courtyard house much altered c.1800; demolished in 1965.
The latest post on my blog concerns a family I have wanted to know more about for more than forty years, since I encountered them as relatives of a family whose papers I was cataloguing. Also, one for the pantheon of silly surnames. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/621-...
And can anyone name another family which has a tortoise on its coat of arms?
The latest post on my blog concerns a Devon family, whose fortune was made by a 17th century physician and mysteriously evaporated in the 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/619-...
My latest blog post also tells the intriguing story of Westcombe Park, Greenwich,where the 9th Earl of Pembroke and Roger Morris built a pretty villa in 1727-30 which was later greatly extended: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...
The latest post on my blog concerns a prosperous mercantile family from the Midlands who made a fortune and secured a baronetcy amid the turmoil of the Civil War and Commonwealth: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...
Your feet seem a lot further away than usual. Are you having a sudden growth spurt?
There's a new post on my blog concerning an Anglo-Irish family with a seat in Co. Offaly that was rebuilt in the 1890s but burned in the Troubles in 1923: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/617-...
Ledbury Park: bird's eye view of 1733
Underdown, Ledbury (Herefordshire)
Kemble House (Gloucestershire)
Rodmarton Manor (Gloucestershire)
The latest posts on my blog concern a family of Herefordshire gentry who became bankers in the 18th century and barons in the 20th century, and acquired seats in Gloucestershire as well as Herefordshire: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/616-... and landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/616-...
Just a quick mention of the fact that my blog (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) will pass a significant milestone in the next day or two: 5 million page-views. From my first post early in 2013 it has been quite a journey!
The latest post on my blog concerns a recusant family whose seat in Staffordshire was sacked and burned in the Civil War and eventually replaced by a seat in Sussex, which burned down twice. An unhappy relationship with flames. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/10/615-...
Any thing that includes grated raw carrot is the work of the D—-l, by definition!
Attleborough Hall (Norfolk)
The latest post on my blog, concerning the #Bickley family, is a story of 'rags to rags in three generations', with lots of outstanding genealogical puzzles: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/10/614-...
And here's the missing link to my post on the Bickfords of Dunsland and the Cohams (now Coham-Flemings) of Coham House: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/09/613-...
Dunsland House, depicted by Edmund Prideaux, c.1724
Dunsland House: after the fire. Only the external walls survived and they were too quickly declared unsafe and pulled down.
Dunsland House: the fabulous drawing room chimneypiece, possibly brought here c.1740 after the demolition of Stowe House at Kilkhampton (Cornwall)
Coham House: the front block of 1872 masks a Georgian house behind, but the site has been occupied by the family since at least the 16th century and probably much longer. A fire in c.1716 is said to have destroyed not only the house but also the family papers.
The latest post on my blog concerns two interlinked Devon families: the Bickfords of Dunsland (whose house passed to the National Trust and burned down just before it was due to open to the public) and the Cohams (now Coham-Flemings) who have been at Coham House for A Very Long Time.
Coates: portal of the tunnel to Sapperton on the Thames & Severn Canal
Coates: the parish church and Church Farm
The draft VCH history of Coates near Cirencester by Alex Craven, with input from Grace Owen, Beth Hartland and Jan Broadway, has been published on the @ihr.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/sites/defaul....
As a holiday task while in Cornwall last week I have updated an early post on my blog about the #Adams family of Bowden House, #Totnes #Devon with much new genealogical information: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/04/30-a...
Trewern: entrance front in 2023
Trewern: garden front in the late 19th century
Trewern: entrance hall
Trewern: drawing room in 2023
Another new post on my blog, this time about a Welsh family who built a handsome seat in #Pembrokeshire in the early 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/08/610-...
Close House (Northumberland) in the late 19th century
Close House (Northumberland) today
Hallaton Hall (Leicestershire) in 1796
Hallaton Hall (Leicestershire) today
The latest post on my blog concerns a merchant family from Newcastle, and later London, who had seats in Northumberland and Leicestershire: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/08/609-...
We finally have light rain which I wish I could send your way! Glad today went OK - funerals are never easy.
Riddlesworth Hall (Norfk), by Thomas Leverton, c.1792
Fosbury House (Wiltshire), c.1810-14, architect unknown
Trent Park (MIddx): the house c.1816
Trent Park (Middx): the house in 1908
The latest post on my blog concerns a family who were among the founders of Barclays Bank and last supplied its chairman in the 1980s: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/07/607-...
I (don’t) see your green woodpecker but I raise you the three green woodpeckers Mary and I watched having their breakfast yesterday while we’re having ours. Clearly a family. No pic becos I am old and slow!
Have been off here for a bit (because Wimbledon obvs) so missed your sad news. Belated condolences and I hope you are getting through the ghastly paperwork etc OK.
#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share!
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Many thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion but sadly that is not the right house! Great or Upper Berwick has long been a farmhouse on the Berwick House estate.
The latest post on my blog concerns a Shropshire family who held an estate on the edge of Shrewsbury from the 14th to the 19th centuries: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/06/606-...
Jolly tasty, if I say so myself!