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Survey of London
… Area This former mews area in the south-east corner of the estate was originally part of the large parcel of ground … him en bloc in July 1721. 1 This particular part of Barlow's ground formed a hinterland behind the main street frontages … 6 In such an area there was inevitably much poverty. A charity book of the 1830's kept in the vestry of St. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Bourn 4 BOURN (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 36 S.W., bTL 35 N.W., cTL 35 N.E., dTL 35 S.W.) Bourn The … ins. by 5 ins. by 5 ins. with joggled ends), evidently an estate product, came into use towards the middle of the 19th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Shrivenham, union of Farringdon, county of Berks, 7 miles (S. W. by S.) from Farringdon; containing 396 inhabitants; and, … was founded in 1693, by William Hutchinson, who gave an estate now producing 258 per annum, for the instruction of …
Survey of London
… part of a through-route from Waterloo Bridge to St. Giles's and Bloomsbury, and the public or semipublic nature of the … 30) were put up on sites that were no longer part of his estate. 1 The builder was the bricklayer, Richard Frith, who … magistrate; William Thomas Lewis, 17939, actor; William Smith, 1798, ? actor; Thomas Harris, 180820, co-proprietor of …
Survey of London
… first laid out by the fourth Earl of Bedford in the 1630's it was closed at its southern end a few yards north of the … named Brydges Street, after the family of the fourth Earl's wife. In 1657 ground south of the street was bought from … where the land had long ceased to belong to the Bedford estate, the old house-sites still survive north of Tavistock …
Survey of London
… built a few years earlier beyond the third Earl of Bedford's brick wall of c. 1610. 2 Both parts bore the name of … 64 and they were only partially regained for the Bedford estate by purchases in the nineteenth century. An early … Mohun, actor; John Bancroft, 1691 c. 1694, dramatist; John Smith, 16931717, mezzotint engraver; George Kelly, 1722, ? …
Survey of London
… existed as Charles Street since the fourth Earl of Bedford's development of Covent Garden. (For Nos. 2331 and 1826 … corner of the Piazza, where it was still shown on Horwood's map of 1819 (Plate 8). One of the first occupants, in 1635, … extension on a site partially re-acquired by the Bedford estate in the nineteenth century. These ducal enterprises …
Survey of London
… with the other original Covent Garden streets in the 1630's and was named after the infant Duke of York (b. 1633). … an early feature of the street. An episode in the 1660's tells something of one of these rather unsubstantial … Street had by then long ceased to be part of the Bedford estate. The family compact of 16401 had settled both sides of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wooler. The ancient family of Carr sold their paternal estate here to the late Sir Francis Blake, Bart. The village … Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 1 mile (S. E.) from Bradford; containing 8918 inhabitants. The … the vicarial for 408. 3. 8.; there is an acre of glebe. A charity school has an income of nearly 30 a year, arising …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on the edge of the park called Mannings Hill, Cuff's Corner, and Buck Hill, and part of the settlement called … site of a third farmstead standing in 1754 the Osprey, an estate yard with singlestoreyed stone buildings and a … an estate yard in 2000. The fourth farmstead, Litton's Farm, was on the site north-west of Home Farm on which a …