Monument record 6817 - Great Billing Hall Park

{1} Parkland not indicated as already built up, but Lings Wood is shown, as are the various ponds.

{2} Lord John Cavendish. 2nd edition 1791; house only shown, not the park.

{3} Old house, with pleasant gardens and plantations belonging to the Earl of Thomond for many generations. Part of the lordship on the north is inclosed. He hath here an handsome old house with pleasant gardens adjoining. "There is a modus" for the Earl of Thomand's inclosure by agreement and decree made in the time of the rector Dan Cawdry, AD 1625-1662.

{4} Lord John Cavendish at decease, Great Billing sold to Rob Elwes, Esq.

{5} Great Billing. Extracts from registers relating to O'Brien family in CTG 8 (1843) 189-90. Collectanea Topographica and Genealogia at Nottingham University Library.

{7} A parkland is clearly indicated in the early C19th, covering much of the land to the north-west of Great Billing village up to the Billing crossroads and westwards to the Billing Brook. The tributary stream flowing into the Billing Brook is also clearly shown, running south-westwards from a pond on the north side of the Wellingborough Road. There is no indication that Lings Wood was included within the parkland at this time.

<2> Eyre T. (Revised by Jefferys T.), 1779, Map of the County of Northamptonshire, (checked) (Map). SNN1852.

<3> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.406 (unchecked) (Book). SNN100366.

<4> Evans J., 1813, The Beauties of England and Wales (Northamptonshire), (unchecked) (Book). SNN44614.

<5> BURT J., 1990s?, Note on Great Billing Hall, (unchecked) (Note). SNN48439.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, First Edition OS 6 Inch Mapping Series (45NE), (unchecked) (Map). SNN106001.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1811-9, First Edition Ordnance Survey Surveyors Drawings, Sheet 253 (Map). SNN104902.

<8> Bryant A., 1827, Map of The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Map). SNN2733.

<9> Mowl T.; Hickman C., 2008, The Historic Gardens of England: Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Series). SNN106082.

<10> Ordnance Survey, 1880, First Edition OS 6 Inch Mapping Series (MULTIPLES!), (unchecked) (Map). SNN41938.

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