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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… the area of Bourton Bridge and also along the Foss Way to S.W. A metalled road forked E. from the Foss Way. The area … and N.E. sides and another gap probably occurred on the S.E.; little is known of the S.W. side. Banks, each with … the R. Windrush and a tributary, includes one excavated house site (4) and connects with the settlement area around …
A Dictionary of London
… Bousishous - Bowyer's Court, Hart Street, Cripplegate Bousishous House in parish of St. James de Garlekhethe, called "le … : " Cordwainer street," corruptly called "Bow Lane" (S. 270). "Bowe Lane," as they now call it (S. 253). It will …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Boveney 11. BOVENEY. (O.S. 6 in. lv. N.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Church of St. Mary … orders, and is probably also of the 15th century. In the S. wall the two eastern windows resemble the 15th-century N. … the S. and a room on each side. In the modern part of the house one room has oak panelling and carved roundels of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Bovington 22. BOVINGDON. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiii. S.E. (b)xxxviii. N.W.) Roman a(1). Dwelling House, on the E. side of Boxmoor House, found and planned in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in Buckinghamshire Bow Brickhill 112. BOW BRICKHILL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xv. N.E. (b)xv. S.E.) Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of All Saints, at … with tiles, the third with slate. Main road, S. side b(3). House, about mile W.N.W. of the church. b(4). House, now the …
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 … into Long Acre (Plate 7), and until the building of Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre in 1809 was essentially the usual … Ayres, Lady Craven, and the proprietor of Will's coffee house. 2 This last had been established in 1671 in a newly …
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 … with Exeter Street and Aldwych by the wall of Exeter House garden and the back premises of the White Hart Inn in … named Brydges Street, after the family of the fourth Earl's wife. In 1657 ground south of the street was bought from …
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 … side east of Bow Street, was settled on the fourth Earl's younger son Edward by the family agreement of 16401. 63 He … at least three victuallers or vintners. One had the house later numbered 6: another, William Clifton, was in c. …
Survey of London
… existed as Charles Street since the fourth Earl of Bedford's development of Covent Garden. (For Nos. 2331 and 1826 … was blocked by the gateway into the stables of Bedford House, and a proposal to make a continuation to the Strand in … corner of the Piazza, where it was still shown on Horwood's map of 1819 (Plate 8). One of the first occupants, in 1635, …
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). … its name and street-numbers (Plate 8). In 1835 three house-sites at the west end of the south side were absorbed … an early feature of the street. An episode in the 1660's tells something of one of these rather unsubstantial …