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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green to Harrow in 1880, with a station at Harrow-on-the-Hill, 37 was extended to Pinner in 1885 and to Rickmansworth … & Perivale) and at Sudbury Town, and in 1910 at Sudbury Hill. The London Electric Co. inaugurated a service (the … with stations at Sudbury and Harrow Road and at Wembley Hill. Another station, South Harrow (later Sudbury Hill) was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the hamlets The Growth of the Hamlets Harrow-On-the-Hill.In 767 Offa made a grant of land between the Lydding and … to have been a specific landmark. 57 The gravel-capped hill, rising abruptly above the wooded plain, was an obvious … Harrow, therefore, seems to have been first applied to the hill, and then to the whole parish, 'on-the-Hill' being added …
A Dictionary of London
… Tower Street See Harp Lane. Hart Row Street Between Snow Hill and Newgate Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. … : "Hart Street" (Hatton, 1708). Afterwards called Snow Hill, now Holborn Viaduct. So called because it represents … sign of the Hart. Hart Street East from Newgate to Snow Hill, without Newgate (Hatton, 1708). See Hart Row Street. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was 43. 3., and the site was granted to Richard Hill, serjeant of the cellar to Henry VIII. Hartford, East … some remains of the chapel which once stood upon the Kirk hill; on a part of its site some farm-offices are now … the name of which signifies in the Saxon language "the Hill or Place of Harts," has long been the residence of the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… wapentake from the west side of the Derwent, and Church hill at Holme upon Spalding Moor. The boulder clay and gravel … above sea-level, while the Keuper marl outcrop at Holme hill exceeds 150 ft. The name Jurassic hills is applied to a … 22 The meeting-place of the wapentake was presumably Hart hill; its site is not known but it may have been in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… two parks of Up Park and Lady Holt. Torbarrow or Tarberry Hill, an isolated conical hill, rising steeply from under 300 ft. to just over 500 ft., … Harting, is mentioned in 1582 as a pasture called Tarberie Hill. 1 The earliest park at Harting was called Inlonde and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hurst-Cross; Hazlehurst; Smallshaw; Lusley; and Ridge-Hill Lane.See Hurst, Mossley, and Stalybridge. Hartshead, … extensive views of the picturesque scenery between Chatham Hill and Herne Bay. The East Swale is navigable on the south …
A History of the County of Northampton
… to their son Moses. 91 The mill, which stood on Windmill Hill Furlong, to the north of Chapel Farm, had been removed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3726 are uninclosed land, chiefly in sheep-walks. On a dry hill on the north-west side, commanding very extensive … of small extent, and is situated on the ridge of a lofty hill, on the road from Blackburn to Whalley. The Hall is a … is situated on the road from Godalming to Horsham. Hascomb Hill, embellished with wood, forms a delightful …