The name " Gunnersbury " means " Manor house of a woman called Gunnhildr ", and is from an old Scandinavian personal name + Middle English-bury, manor or manor house.

The old ' Harefield Place ' fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1813, whereupon the new Manor house became known as Harefield Place.

( On the adjacent map, Gatwick Manor is at the northwest end of the racecourse ; its name is somewhat obscured by the map's paper being eroded over an old crease.

Comparing old and new maps seems to show that the modern Gatwick Manor hotel is not the old Gatwick Manor but a rename for another old building, near Lowfield Heath.

For example, The old Castle Duivenvoorde, and the Manor Vredenhof-rebuilt from Diederik Jansz.

Open to the public for many years, the old Scaroon Manor site is now owned by the state, and access is limited to those who pay for a day pass.

The story centered around an autistic boy, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who regularly disrupted the town ’ s tranquility by climbing Manor ’ s old water tower.

The only Alderwood Manor buildings still in the same place as they were when they were built are the old Masonic Temple ( now a Korean church ) and Manor Hardware ( former schoolhouse in early 1900s ).

Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton on 25 December 1642 ( old calendar ).

There is a statue and memorial plaque dedicated to Chippendale outside the old Prince Henry's Grammar School in Manor Square, in his home town of Otley, near Leeds, Yorkshire.

Thomas Chippendale, the cabinetmaker, was born in a cottage at the junction of Boroughgate and Wesley Street and his statue stands next to the old Grammar School that he once attended in Manor Square.

Other Christian denominations are represented by the Acomb Methodist Chapel on Front Street, the Anglican Church of the Holy Redeemer on Boroughbridge Road, the Baptist Church on Ridgeway, Gateway Church in the Old School on Front Street, and Global York, based at the old Manor School site on Boroughbridge Road.

From 1795 he resided successively at old Neidpath Castle near Peebles, at Hallyards on Manor Water and at St Andrews, where he died on 22 February 1816.

During the 18th century, Naseby continued as an agricultural community and during this time several fine Georgian buildings were constructed in the parish, including Manor Farm ( built 1720 ), Shuckburgh House ( 1773 ), and the old Vicarage ( 1785 ).

The borough is named after the old Frogner Manor.

An old horse trap at Snowshill Manor.

James Peter " Jimmy " Greaves ( born 20 February 1940 in Manor Park, East Ham, England ) is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit-famous for his trademark catchphrase it's a funny old game.

Surviving old pubs are the Old Manor, the Red Lion and the Bull, all timber-framed and dating from before the 18th century.

Even Black's old crowbait began to snort, and from the house Black yelled, `` Jess!!

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The old woman, stubbornly reigning in the house above the crashing waters took on an ominous reality.

Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Russell had reached the house as Cook surmised, dismounted, but just as the old trapper opened the door to receive him, he fell into the trapper's arms -- dead.

The ages of the slaves ranged from sixty-five, for an old house servant, to an unnamed newborn child.

Giffen had advised that it would not be too difficult to obtain freedom locally for the old house servants.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

The house itself is 400 years old with all the craftsmanship of older, less-hurried times.

Felix threw his head back and laughed a laugh that shook the timbers of even that solidly built old house.

He lived in an apartment house not over three or four years old, a reclaimed island of landscaped brick and glass on the fringe of the business district.

The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.

So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.

More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.

The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

John sold the big old place in Sewickley and bought a smaller house in Fox Chapel.

Cousin Emma is alone in that big old house and won't hear to parting from it.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

Hysterium, desperate to keep him out of the house where his master is bathing, tells the old man that his house has become haunted — a story seemingly confirmed by the sound of Senex singing in his bath.

Erronius immediately determines to have a soothsayer come and banish the spirit from his house, and Pseudolus obligingly poses as one, telling Erronius that in order to banish the spirit, he must travel seven times around the seven hills of Rome ( thus keeping the old man occupied and out of the way for quite a while ).

* The old gendarmerie on Place Manuel was originally constructed to house the subprefecture in 1825 in a neoclassical style, and its façade occupies one entire side of the square.

Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.