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Old and New London
… HALL. ( From a View, by Malcolm, 1799.) This is the great district for silk-weavers. "Spital Square," says Mr. Timbs, … "at the south-east corner, has been the heart of the silk district since 'the poor Protestant strangers, Walloons and … a great number of poor persons, and thus pauperised the district. The earnings of weavers, in 1854, did not exceed …
Survey of London
… was marked by disputes between Horner and the Whitechapel District Board of Works, and by his rebuilding and enclosure … taken by the Board of Works for the Whitechapel District against the Lessee of Spitalfields Market …, April … Beek's map of Tower Hamlets Commissioners of Sewers District, 1833. The Wren Society, vol. xviii, pp. 425. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cambridgeshire obtained a county ground in the Romsey Town district of Cambridge. It is not known when this ground … derived its name from the abundance of eels in the district. 4 The significance of that fish in the economies of … of river in Cambridgeshire. Both the Sheffield and District Anglers' Association Limited and the Sheffield …
A History of the County of Oxford
… his method of riding through the beech-woods in the latter district, with the reins hanging loose on his horse's neck, … the light ploughs and stone walls which abound in this district in the wake of the jealous little Heythrop bitches. … say, the Chiltern ranges between Nettlebed and Reading, a district which was hunted more than twenty years back by the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Plain and partly in the carboniferous limestone of the Mendip Hills, is another tributary, which for a few miles … serve that town and the Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District. Most of this water also is lost to the springs … the Portman and the Blackmore Vale, and on the west by the Mendip Farmers. The Wilton Hunt This hunt 112 was formed in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with them. Another trophy competed for in the metropolitan district is the Sheriff of London's Shield presented by Sir …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the hunt. 9 At that time there was still in the Harrow district 'a small stretch of as good grass as is to be ridden …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… At Mowcop is a church dedicated to St. Thomas, to which a district has been assigned, consisting of parts of the … established in 1847, extend over the registration-district of Stafford, and part of that of Penkridge. The … Earl of Harrowby, in November, 1837, has been endowed as a district church with 1300 in the three and a half per cent, …
Survey of London
… been praised for its originality and distinction. 289 The district it served was taken out of the parish of St. Paul's, …