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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Cheltenham; containing 236 inhabitants. … of the neighbourhood. The Berkeley and Gloucester ship canal joins the Severn at Sharpness Point, in the parish, at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in a valley. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 21. 1. 3., and in the patronage of the Duchy of … hundred of Dacorum, county of Hertford, 25 miles (W. by S.) from Hertford, and 26 (N. W. by W.) from London; … of the population are chiefly employed. The Grand Junction canal, which passes by the town, affords an extensive line of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of land. 2 The River Bulbourne and the Grand Junction Canal, which runs beside it, pass through the parish from … which are abundant in the neighbourhood. Whether the Grim's Dike, which passes across Berkhampstead Common, is … except widows, had to mow and do other work on the lord's lands. 5 It appears from some legal proceedings in the time …
Old and New London
… X. BERMONDSEY ( continued).THE ABBEY, &c. The sacred taper's lights are gone, Grey moss has clad the altar-stone, The … holy shrine to ruin sunk, Departed is the pious monk; God's blessing on his soul!" Scott. The Dissolution of … roadway there was till within the last few years a narrow canal or ditch winding its sluggish course from the Thames, …
Old and New London
… Aspect of the LocalityDuke StreetTooley StreetSt. Olave's ChurchAbbots' Inn of St. AugustineSellinger's WharfThe Inn of the Abbots of BattleMaze PondThe House of … the air of a Flemish street, flanking a sewer instead of a canal; while the little rickety bridges that span the ditches …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; … here repeatedly, and made several inroads into the enemy's territory. Robert Bruce obtained it in 1318, and having … district roads, in indifferent repair; and the Caledonian canal, which passes through the parish, opens a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Wem, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of Salop, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Wem; containing 167 inhabitants. Besford … E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Pershore; containing 179 inhabitants. The parish … is in the occupation of market-gardeners. The Regent's canal passes through the parish, which is also crossed by the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… hutments or mobile homes, 'prefabs', of which the L.C.C.'s first in East London were in Florida and Squirries streets. … homes of which 2,434 were unfit, 1,711 in the L.C.C.'s clearance areas and 675 in the M.B.'s, together with 48 … 1951 with 207 flats 28 on 7 a. bordered northeast by the canal and Victoria Park, west by St. James's Avenue, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1837 TO 1875. 11 At Victoria's accession tradesmen's houses lined all the main roads in … Hall north of Old Ford Road and east of the Regent's canal, the whole of the Cass and Goosefields estates in … commissioners had building land between Old Ford Road and Duckett's canal. Bisected by Grove Road, it had been taken …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… as skilled and unskilled artisans, compared with Booth's 51 per cent. At the ends of the social scale, only 2 per … century were poor, with some of the worst slums along the canal and railways, especially west of Cambridge Heath Road. … agreed in 1930 to buy large sections west of Pritchard's Road and south of the Shoreditch border. 72 The scheme, …