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Old and New London
… who built on it a mansion of red brick. In the "New View of London," published in 1708, the original building … at St. James's. The King and Queen grew so fond of their new purchase that they took up their abode entirely here; and … bas-reliefs which the Queen had ordered, and to show some new improvements, with which they were well pleased. They …
Old and New London
… was at that time an island, formed by an arm of the river, called "The Long Ditch," and the brooks which flowed … Lincoln's-inn Fields and Drury Lane on the north, and the new Embankment on the south; then we shall come to Charing … at all events we shall find no lack of matter, "new and old," with which to light up the dull and somewhat …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… and the former prior and five other monks were among the new canons. The town of Westminster was to be known as the city of Westminster. The new diocese was to consist of the whole county of Middlesex, … of Middlesex was transferred to the jurisdiction of the new bishop. 1 The next month the endowment of the bishopric …
Old and New London
… curtailed at the northern end by the erection of the new India and Foreign Offices. Narrow as it was, King Street … was as long and big as that which was caught in Peterboro' river in the year 1667, which was 3 feet long; if you will … when a number of disorderly occupants were ejected, and new tenants admitted. The new name refers to Archbishop …
Old and New London
… ChurchThe Residence of Colonel BloodSt. Anne's LaneOld and New Pye StreetsWestminster Working Men's Club and Lodging … survive. He died here in August, 1680, and was buried in New Chapel Yard, near the Broadway. He had, however, been … Stag, or Elliot's Brewery. In Horseferry Road, between the river and Victoria Street, about half a mile from the west …
Old and New London
… Last Prayer. "Rosamond's Pond," writes the author of "A New Critical Review of the Public Buildings," &c., "is … Island." As to the island in the canal, the writer of the "New Critical Review" (1736) speaks of itwith some … far they had proceeded in the Pell Mell, and in making a river through the park, which I had never seen before since …
Old and New London
… TavernRoyal Aquarium and Summer and Winter GardenOld and New Pye StreetsThe BroadwayYork StreetVan Dun's … Fields, pretending want of room elsewhere; whereas the New Chapel churchyard was walled in at the publick charge in … about midway between the Chelsea Road and the bank of the river opposite Vauxhall." The Pest Houses were built by Lord …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Sands, on which the present village lies, Upper Lias Clay, river gravel, fluvial sand and gravel and finally alluvium on … area. (2) Late Neolithic Settlement (?) (SP 78816107), on river gravel, at 58 m. above OD. Eighteen prehistoric sherds, … In 1881 the N. wall of the nave was demolished, a new N. aisle formed and the windows of the S. altered, under …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… of the nave were re-built c. 1400, and at the same time new windows were inserted in the aisles, and the clearstorey …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N.W. boundaries. It occupies land sloping sleeply to the river between 63 m. and 130 m. above OD. The higher S. and …