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Old and New London
… formerly belonged to the City, and stood in the high road from the Temple to Westminster, but now no longer …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… where West Street, East Street, and Broad Street meet. The road from Southampton to London cuts through the parish, … avenue of fine old trees. 21 At the end of the avenue the road dips downhill, where it is called Pound Hill, since the pound originally stood here on the north side of the road, and again sharply uphill into the town, taking the name …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the lines of houses extend northward along the Fareham Road and westward to Alverstoke. To the north are the hamlets … no way remarkable; in High Street, which is the principal road, is a market hall built in 1812, and other public … 10 s. paid by the Urban District Council out of New Short Road, Gosport; and 78 0 s. 4 d., 2 15 s. per cent. annuities, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Lymington and Marchwood, and the site of a Roman road passes through the north-east of the parish. Beaulieu Road station on the Southampton and Dorchester Railway is 3 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… chiefly clay, and produces wheat, barley and roots. A high road repaired and improved under an Act of Parliament in 1827 … Castle. 11 Gallows Tree Acre is west of the high road in Clapcot Fields. A field west of the road, known as Pond Piece, and others abutting eastward on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… are both in the south of the parish. The site of a Roman road runs along the Denny Lodge boundary. An Inclosure Act …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Essex
… works. There is light industry along the Southend Arterial road, and in a few other areas. Romford has become one of the … Essex quarter sessions and fined for failing to repair the road to Upminster. 61 The sheriff of Essex returned part of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Portsmouth, while opposite, at the corner of Pembroke Road, is the old Guildhall, now used as the Borough Museum. … floor of the old town-hall, at the corner of Pembroke Road, was known as the market, but was let to a yearly tenant as a shop. 258 It is now held in the Commercial Road, the main thoroughfare northwards from the present …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… east and west out of the main thoroughfare, the Commercial Road, which may well be called the most busy street of the … town-hall on his left the traveller passes up Commercial Road by the most important shops in the town, on his right is … Coast Railways, built before 1859. Still further up the road, where the shops give place to villas interspersed with …