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A Dictionary of London
… late Blackfriars Gate called the New Gate, near to Carter Lane (H. MSS. Com. 7th Rep. 665a). Not named in the maps. Blackfriars Lane See Water Lane, Blackfriars. Blackfriars School Founded in 1716 by …
Old and New London
… in their struggle against the patented monopoly of Drury Lane and Covent Garden. The place was first opened under the … Magazine tells us, "was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane, but, like the conqueror of Austerlitz, he suffered his … Hill established some almshouses in the adjacent Gravel Lane, in a thoroughfare now known as Hill Street, on a spot …
Old and New London
… on her return to England. St. John's Church, in Charlton Lane, was built at the cost of the late Mr. W. Angerstein. In … named Farquhar, who lived in a court between Fetter Lane and Cursitor Street, though Cyrus Redding affirms that …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on which farmsteads stood in Calstone village, and the lane linking them was given the name Blackland street. 37 If, … 20th century and replaced by a cattle yard. 51 Beside a lane leading south-east from the London road north of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thomas Becket, giving its name to the nearby St. Thomas's Lane recorded in 1512, 20 but, like St. Thomas's church, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worked a quarry in Hanborough, reopened the quarry in Park Lane, Hensington, but it produced only poor quality stone and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… followed Rowel brook, field boundaries, and Sansoms Lane, part of an ancient track running from north Oxfordshire … century the boundary near Hensington probably left the lane, running c. 1/4 mile west of its later course. 50 Much … the eastern parish boundary turning north-westwards at the lane to Bladon Gate to meet the river Glyme. 60 In 1886 part …
A Dictionary of London
… Tenement of Peter de Blakeney on the west side of Marte lane towards the Tower, 1311 (Ct. H.W. I. 223). No later … etc., and was situated at the north-east end of Mark Lane, in the ward of Aldgate. The earliest notice occurs in a … name is obscure. Blanch Appleton Court East out of Mark Lane, near Fenchurch Street. In Aldgate Ward (Strype, ed. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… extending N.E., with the church on its E. side and a minor lane running N. from the centre of its W. side. In the S. was … ('a' on plan) a hollow-way continues the line of the minor lane and runs N.E. to meet the existing lane N. of the village. In the triangular area left between …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… inscribed 'Near this Place Lie the remains of Thomas & lane Creech; the latter dyed 1693; the former 1720, Leaving … DNI MDCLXXXII'. (8) Coupar House, at the corner of Church Lane and The Plocks, is probably of c. 1750; in 1731 the site … Tree House (Plate 109) faces Coupar House across Church Lane and is a small Group (i) residence; it probably was …