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A History of the County of Sussex
… Bersted BERSTED The old parish of Bersted, originally part of Pagham, … the west boundary for a short distance before turning south-east to run across the parish. The church and village …
A Dictionary of London
… See Old Bethlehem Hospital. . Bethlehem Hospital Chapel The little chapell of Beelem wythout Bisshops Gate (Arnold's Chronicle, … In later times it formed a watergate to the river on the south side of Thames Street, opposite St. Mary Hill. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… BERWICK BASSETT Berwick Bassett village lies 12 km. SSW. of Swindon. 1 The long and narrow parish, 563 ha. (1,391 a.), lies … and a head stream of the river Kennet flows north-south across the middle of it; with Winterbourne Bassett and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. The name of this town, which Leland supposes to have been … and Charles I., and connecting it with Tweedmouth on the south. The streets, with the exception of St. Marygate, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Besford - Beverley Besford BESFORD, a township, in the parish of Shawbury, union of Wem, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of … in 1840. Besthorpe BESTHORPE, a chapelry, in the parish of South Scarle, union, and N. division of the wapentake of …
The Environs of London
… Bethnal Green BETHNAL-GREEN. Bethnal-Green made a parish. THE very populous and extensive parish of Stepney having before suffered some diminutions, was again … on the west by St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; and on the south by Christ-church, Spitalfields, and Mile End New Town, …
Old and New London
… Bethnal Green CHAPTER XVIII. BETHNAL GREEN. Origin of the NameThe Ballad of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal … Green. The opening, in 1872, of an Eastern branch of the South Kensington Museum at Bethnal Green was the result of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Activities BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS AFTER 1945. The immediate problem after the war was to house those whose … from residential areas, as reaffirmed in the County of London Plan of 1943. 10 Some 5,000 people lived in … canal and Victoria Park, west by St. James's Avenue, and south by Old Ford Road. Bandon Road disappeared as brick …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 11 At Victoria's accession tradesmen's houses lined all the main roads in the west: Cambridge, Bethnal Green, and … Field settlement off Hackney Road and the eastern part of the green, Patriot Square, Jews' Walk, and Victoria Park … older, houses around the green. On its east side William South built Falcon Place between 1836 and 1842 25 and White …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1914 BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1876 TO 1914. 60 The population reached its peak, 129,727, in 1901. 61 … such that a school inspector in the 1880s calculated that, of 1,204 families on his books, 530 (44 per cent) had moved … By 1899 Jews formed at least 95 per cent of the population south of Hare Street and 75-95 per cent in Brick Lane and the …