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2 days ago · William Stukeley died in 1538 seised of the manors of Stukeley, Nokes and Presteleyes, the heir, his son Matthew, being a minor. Matthew died in the following year, and his inheritance passed to William's sister Katherine, wife of Henry Torkington, afterwards Katherine Broughton.
4 days ago · In 1719, William Stukeley described a partial skeleton of a plesiosaur, which had been brought to his attention by the great-grandfather of Charles Darwin, Robert Darwin of Elston.
Jun 25, 2024 · Finances and government of Canterbury early to mid-nineteenth century. Kent Archaeological Society. Registered Charity 1176989. Documents Guidance Minutes Privacy
1 day ago · His friend and contemporary William Stukeley (1687–1765), vicar of All Saints' from 1730 to 1747, did not publish any of his work on Stamford.
2 days ago · Beckhampton Avenue – a long run of Late Neolithic stones curving broadly south-west from Avebury – is both famous and enigmatic: only a few stones remain standing, but, thanks in large part to William Stukeley’s 1743 bird’s-eye imagining of the landscape, the wider setting looms large in the imagination.
Jun 27, 2024 · William Stukeley, Stonehenge: a temple restored to the British Druids, bound with Abury: a temple of the British druids, with some others, described. London: Innys & Manby, 1740. Facsimile reprint, published in 1838.
1 day ago · A century later William Stukeley surveyed Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments, but it was not until 1874–77 that Flinders Petrie made the first accurate plan of the stones. In 1877 Charles Darwin dug two holes in Stonehenge to investigate the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms.
