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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles westward. Wigston Hall, a large square mansion in pleasant grounds ornamented with yew-trees, was built in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Kilburn brook to 73 m. at Dollis Hill and 75 m. at Mount Pleasant on the Brondesbury ridge. It lies on London Clay, … glacial gravel at Dollis Hill, and Claygate Beds at Mount Pleasant. 9 The soil is mostly heavy and poorly drained clay, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 18th century. 51 In 1817 Willesden Green was a 'retired pleasant village, which appears as remote from London as at a … roads and building plots laid out to the north. 73 Mount Pleasant and 9 a. belonging to it at Chambers Lane were … built north of the Hampstead line 11 and also on the Mount Pleasant estate, where houses were being built in 1904. 12 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… we have on foot appear so frivolous that it is not very pleasant writing upon them. The fleet is now gone again to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… six and seven in the morning, after a quick and very pleasant voyage, "during which he was not in the least …