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A History of the County of Essex
… was proportionately much larger than that of values, or ploughs, or stock. The arrival of 79 new families (63 bordars and 16 … the Forest of Essex, but as early as 1189 this comprised heath rather than woodland: in that year Richard I granted to …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Ham, which comprised 8 hides and 30 a. and lay wholly or mainly in West Ham, was held by Alestan. In 1086 it was … of three storeys and five bays, dating from the late 18th or the early 19th century. 35 It may well have been rebuilt … Abbey. 124 It was then said to comprise 10 a. wood, 12 a. heath at Hamfrith, and 8 3 s. 4 d. assize rents. In 1538 …
A History of the County of Essex
… originated spontaneously in the 19th century. 4 From 1858 or earlier hucksters were congregating in Stratford Broadway … the police would not agree to wholesale eviction, there or elsewhere, and the council therefore began to evolve a … of the main road, and extensive sheep pastures on the heath between the Frith (Hamfrith) and Walthamstow, 50 which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Surrey; containing 341 inhabitants. Westenhanger, or Ostenhanger (St. Thomas Becket) WESTENHANGER, or Ostenhanger ( St. Thomas Becket), anciently a parish, now … Chipping-Sodbury; containing, with the hamlets of Coal-Pit-Heath, Henfield, Kendalshire, Mayshill, and Nibley, 1776 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3 12' (W. Lon.), and includes an area of 763 square miles, or 488,320 statute acres. There are 10,849 inhabited houses, … ' conquerors it received the name of West-moringa-land, or "land of the western moors," since contracted into … moors, which produce little besides a very coarse grass, heath and fern, provincially called ling and brackens: the …
Old and New London
… up to Islington, round Highgate and Hornsey and Hampstead Heath, and so back again by Marylebone to St. Giles's and … he forbade all his subjects of every degree either to hawk or hunt within those boundaries. Though little more than … and in it there are spots where the visitor may sit or walk with every trace of the great city around him shut …
Old and New London
… AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or tourney brave." Cavalier Song. Origin of the Word … in "Tuthill"Burials in Tothill FieldsThe "Five Houses" or "Seven Chimneys"The Pest-houseThe "Maze" and Public … of the Scotch were "driven like a herd of swine," says Heath's "Chronicle," "through Westminster to Tuthill Fields," …
A History of the County of Hertford
… datum. The greater portion of the parish is undulating or hilly, and more nearly approaches the higher of the two … of chalk, and the upper soil of the hills on the western or Harpenden side is of clay with flints; eastward of … Hatching Green (Hacche End Grene) in Harpenden, Marshall's Heath near Mackerye End, Bower Heath (Bourehethe) to the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… manor of Kinsbourne (Cunesburne c. 1225; Kingsbarne 1650) or Harpenden, and the manor of the rectory. 20 The first two … references to separate demesne lands and two manor houses or grangesthat for Wheathampstead at Wheathampsteadbury, and … End died in 1642. 66 In 1656 it was held by Thomas Heath. 67 Thomas Hunsden is described as of Mackerye End in …
Old and New London
… roof of the palace, in order that he might judge whether or not the elements were favourable to his enemies. Whitehall … Hingston: I went in, and found a private company of five or six persons; they desired me to take a viole and bear a … might not discover the spot. Another account, indorsed by Heath, the author of the "Flagellum"who, by the way, …