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Old and New London
… Stretching away in an easterly direction is the Hackney Road, which divides these last-named districts from that of … In Rocque's map of Hackney, published in 1745, the Hackney Road appears entirely unbuilt upon, with the exception of a … called Goldsmiths' Row. At the eastern end of the Hackney Road, Cambridge Heath is marked as a large triangular space, …
Old and New London
… the soil in this part being a stiff clay, that part of the road from Highgate to Islington which passes through Holloway … A large portion of Holloway, lying between the York Road and Caledonian Road, was formerly known as the Copenhagen Fieldsonce the …
Old and New London
… and the broad and open thoroughfare called Kingsland Road, which runs northward from the end of Old Street Road, diverging at Shoreditch Church from the road by which we have travelled towards Hackney. On the east …
Old and New London
… Story. Stoke Newington in the Last CenturyThe Old Roman Road, called Ermine StreetBeaumont and Fletcher's Reference … may be counted by millions, even the full straight level road which leads from Dalston and Kingsland, through Stoke … by the Protestants and the Catholics. The old Roman road, known as the Ermine or Irmin Street, ran northwards …
Old and New London
… Bowe, and Chaucer's Allusion theretoConstruction of the Road through StratfordAlterations and Repairs of the … a ford which doubtless connected London with the old Roman road to Camalodunum, whether that were at Maldon or at … time when Matilda, the good Queen of England, lived, the road from London to Essex was by a place called the Old Ford, …
Old and New London
… irregularly built, along each side of the great northern road, with a few smaller streets branching off at right … given an illustration, when describing the Seven Sisters' Road, which was named after them. It was traditionally … In fact, the long street of Tottenham is the direct road not only to Theobalds, but to Enfield and Edmonton, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… plants to put in the said foss, and for repairing the road to the mills'. 8 In 1322 Archbishop Melton agreed with … of Falkland Street and ran along the S.W. side of Cromwell Road to join the ditch around the motte. Its width was 40 ft. …
Old and New London
… was revived; a triangular gallows was set up in the road, opposite Green Arbour Court, and the cart was drawn …
Survey of London
… ranged above the village a little to the north of the high road from London to Brentford. Throughout the parish were … urban ordeals of plague and fire in the 1660s. The high road itself boasted inns and taverns in the town of … at a spot where the string of houses along the high road gave way quickly on the south to fields and market …
Old and New London
… adjoining, nearly fifty acres, fronting the Brompton Road, was bought for 153,500, as a site for a Museum of … the two thoroughfares known as Palace Gate and Victoria Road, was for many years used as a riding school, but was … Queen's Gate Gardens, and adjoining the Gloucester Road, on the west side of the Horticultural Gardens, is St. …