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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Domesday Book, in 1086 it was probably part of the king's estate called Calne. 3 Berwick Bassett had no church … linking Broad Hinton and Yatesbury, was called Corten Lane in 1728, 1773, and 1820, Whibston Lane c. 1760, and … 1950s 31 stood south of Berwick House Farm. There was an inn or alehouse called the Dragon in the village in 1745. 32 …
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 … defended by a four and a six gun battery near the governor's house; and a saluting battery, of twenty-two guns, commands …
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 … The living is annexed to the vicarage of St. Andrew's, Pershore, and valued in the king's books at 3: the church …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… in east London Bethnal Green 2. BETHNAL GREEN. (O.S. 6 in. London, Sheet K.) The Borough of Bethnal Green … of 1635, given in 1746, cover-paten of 1681, and a beadle's staff dated 1690 and with a medallion of a blind beggar and … Street, and Nos. 1 to 4 Hare Court, 20 yards E. of Brick Lane, are of three or four storeys; the walls are of brick …
The Environs of London
… on the east by Stratford-Bow; on the west by St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; and on the south by Christ-church, … and employs from 200 to 300 hands. At the end of Pollard's-row, near the Hackneyroad, is a new manufacture lately … within the bills of mortality. "Charles Marratt of Brick-lane, aged 99, buried January 15, 17489." "Anne Postel, aged …
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 … Street and 24 flats in Robinson Road and 40 in Russia Lane were added to Approach estate, replacing the notorious …
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 the west: Cambridge, Bethnal Green, and Hackney roads, Brick Lane, and Sclater Street. Similar houses occupied the Nag's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… missioners. In 1881, of the 16.5 per cent of Bethnal Green's population who were not London born, the largest category, … of Arthur Harding, a criminal. 72 Descended on his father's side from Cornishmen who settled in the Borough and then in … south of Hare Street and 75-95 per cent in Brick Lane and the Boundary Street estate (the former Nichol), but …
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 … and semicriminal', around Quinn Square and Russia Lane. Almost all the areas built up in the early 19th century … agreed in 1930 to buy large sections west of Pritchard's Road and south of the Shoreditch border. 72 The scheme, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1703 or 1720. 98 In 1722 the trustees of Parmiter's charity purchased 4½ a. of waste on the west side of … copyhold estates, although it was contemplated on Sotheby's land. 5 More sustained activity began in 1786, when … fronting the road by 1804, 26 Newmarket Terrace in Russia Lane in 1805, 27 and houses in new roads at the northern end …