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Survey of London
… Montpelier Street, the frontage beyond up to Knightsbridge Green having been ceded to the City of Westminster in 1900 … of land ownership the parish boundary with St. Margaret's, Westminster, hereabouts was never (of great significance. … hundred acres of meadow and pasture land in St. Margaret's Westminster, Chelsea, Knightsbridge and Kensington which …
Survey of London
… this ground was copyhold land held of the manor of Earl's Court. In the early seventeenth century Long Close had been … local landholdings of Sir William Blake. After Blake's death in 1630 it was among lands which descended to his … built a branch through to a terminus at Knightsbridge Green, a project in serious contemplation between 1836 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of land, comprising the 30 acres mentioned in Dugdale's Warwickshire as the Park, is the property of Thos. Hutton, … and the head of a union, in the hundred of Offlow South, S. division of the county of Stafford, situated about 6 miles … Bagnall and Sons commenced their three furnaces at Golds Green, in 1820. Since then, three others have been erected at …
Survey of London
… Holloways were not entirely happy with Balfour and Turner's first design, and in March 1898 obtained the Duke's leave 'to dispense with the high gables at the corner house … walls'. 70 Considerable alterations made in 190910 by Green and Abbott Limited, decorators and upholsterers of …
Survey of London
… timber yard on the triangular site at the corner of Brook's Mews and Avery Row, behind No. 39 (then 50) Brook Street … Street, which had recently been vacated by John Phillips's executor. He was granted a new sixty-three-year lease of … dissimilar from the orthodox hotel decoration ... The green paper filling to the corridors was generally admired, …
Survey of London Monograph
… 1502, and was sent when quite young to be a page in Wolsey's household. He was knighted in 1519, and, in spite of the … soon discovered, & Wolsey, who knew by this time the King's inclinations, scolded the young man. Lord Percy gave way, … strongly denied by the Earl in a memorial, dated Newington Green, May 13, 1537, and written to Cromwell, Earl of Essex. …
Survey of London Monograph
… HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL. "What boots it now to Percy's gallant heir, That once he stood the rival to his King; And side-long glances stole from Anna's eyes. . . . In yonder lonely churchyard laid, Scarcely … are excellent; & here I first saw oranges grow: some green, some half, some a quarter, and some full ripe, on the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… farm sites, including Hatcombe, Willoughbys, and Denman's Well were abandoned. Returns for 1982 covering about half … ownership in the 18th, although it was known as Cox's mill after a former owner. 36 Before 1838 it became part of … held on the Fair Close or Fair Field, part of Broomfield green west of the church. 53 V.C.H. Som. i. 491, 506. S.R.O., …
A History of the County of Somerset
… daughters Alice, wife of Robert de Glastonia. 48 Alice's daughter Maud married Roger de Newburgh (d. 1194) and held the manor as a widow in John's reign, 49 and was followed by her son Robert de Newburgh … and later as Fyne Court Cottage, it stands behind a small green north-west of the church. The house, which dates from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… reserves to be, by the 18th century, one of the county's most populous towns, with mazes of hilly lanes winding … and probably a similar number spread between Woodlands Green and the river. 78 The newcomers' settlements, lacking … in 1884 and the cemetery opened in 1885. 21 CHURCHES. A parson was serving Broseley chapel c. 1230, and there had …