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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Charlton (Kent), a former governor of Madras and wealthy East India merchant. Under Langhorne's will the manor passed … 42 In 1804 the northernmost part of the demesne lands east of the heath were sold to Lord Erskine 43 and by 1841 … as an extension of his Kenwood estate. 44 In 1804 Church field (2½ a.) at Frognal, on the eastern border of the main …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 'le Parkgate', later called Spaniard's End, at the north-east end of the heath and parish. 80 The only other building … enclose 2 a. of heath, between the road to Hendon on the east and an old gravel pit, as a bowling green to entertain … been responsible for building by 1848 another house on the east side of Spaniard's Road, north of the Elms. 16 Charles …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… one which met in a shed near the later chapel at the east end of Church Row; the chapel stood by 1771, when … T. Emmett and contained much stained glass, inc. by Alfred East, ch. member. Attendance 1886: 221 a.m.; 128 evg.; 1903: …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 48 near the old pond. Another parish pond existed at the east end of Flask Walk in 1762, possibly fed by the spring … Road. 51 Another old well called Skirret's well stood on East Heath in 1714, close to the site of the house at … acquisition of Sir Rowland's property, which included a field stretching to the houses on the southern edge of South …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of a well known Roman Catholic family, at Ladywell Court, East Heath Road, in the mid 1780s and at Rosslyn Lodge (later … The small church of St. Mary was not replaced: the south-east part of Hampstead from 1867 was served by St. Dominic's, …
Old and New London
… of a scene-painter, having accepted an engagement at an east-end theatre, whence he soon after migrated to Drury … to it in the form of a cross, the head being towards the east, and leading direct to the high road. "But," says Mr. … in New Oxford Street. Near one of the lower ponds on the East Heath, nearly opposite the bottom of Downshire Hill and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the parish, with woodland and heath to the north and north-east. The freehold estates, most of them held by religious … were in Hampstead town and Pond Street, south and east of the heath, with smaller settlements at West End and … scale, to build houses or flats. Its activity in that field greatly increased after the Second World War. There …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… building was the Great Room, for assemblies, with its east end partitioned off as a pump room, where a basin held … and a separate ballroom was put up a little to the east. 56 The village was then ranked, after Scarborough, … of the much older Bell inn. The chalybeate spring in Abbey field was encased in a brick reservoir dated 1714 but …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Wood Park, 16 in Avenue Road, 28 in Boundary Road, the east-west road joining them at the southern boundary, and 13 … earliest developed area, Finchley Road and roads to the east, were 'wealthy, upper middle- and middle-class', while … Columba's hospital, and the New College Chapel, all on the east side of Avenue Road, was considered in 1957. A scheme …
Old and New London
… from an occasional sham fight on its slopes on a volunteer field day, the Heath is now left to the sole use of the … the Rome and Frascati Railway, a Swiss railway, and the East Kent line. He had dealt largely in the lands sold in the … at our feet, as we look down in the hollow towards the east, from the broad road in front of "Jack Straw's Castle," …