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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Acton Turville AN INVENTORY OF IRON-AGE AND ROMANO-BRITISH MONUMENTS IN THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COTSWOLDS Arranged … ACTON TURVILLE (19 miles s.w. of Cirencester) Romano-British pottery was found and ditches were recorded (ST …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… opened a station at Broad Street, Acton had a direct rail link with the City, which could be reached by a few fast … High Road, renamed Hammersmith and Chiswick in 1880. A rail motor car worked the line from 1909, when halts were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… leading industrial area in west Middlesex. There were good rail services with the G.W.R.'s Birmingham line, sidings … 1966. 1 Park Royal Vehicles in Abbey Road, a division of British Leyland, originated as Hall, Lewis & Co., which began … races and dominated European Formula One racing, bringing British cars to the forefront and causing Acton to be …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… builders. 56 Before the award was confirmed, the British Land Co. had bought the 85 a. Mill Hill estate, where … in 1871 one in six of Acton's houses was unoccupied. Poor rail services may have been partly responsible, since links … town were slow to fill, plots in South Acton sold by the British Land Co. with some frontages only half the width of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1859 sold the estate to Walter Elliott Whittingham and the British Land Co.; 98 most of the land was sold for building, …