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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 4 m. lower than the modern road and waggoners were warned at the top of the hill, which as late as 1899 was a major … crossed the boundary, which followed Bollo brook to Acton common and existed by 1394. 20 The main route northward from … Lane, 1588: P.R.O., SC 2/189/24. Public Works in Med. Law, ii (Selden Soc. xi), p. 29. Rocque, Map of Lond. (1746). …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was granted out before 1086 71 and perhaps before the common fields were formed, since it had no holdings in those … of arable and pasture, with some remaining woodland, and at least two farms situated away from the main settlements. … c. 166 a. of inclosed land and c. 60 a. of arable in the common fields. The estate seems to have been leased out as a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… bequeathed a rent charge for teaching six poor children at 1 s. a week, which was paid out regularly by the … with 108 pupils and the infants' with 84, there was a common day school for 20 boys, besides three dame schools … being superseded by the college's move in 1965 to Uxbridge common. Brunel became a university in 1967. Thomas Huxley …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 … cleared by the 17th century, even on the extensive Old Oak common. 74 Some landholders were resident by 1222 75 and … consisted of farmhouses and cottages north and south of common land known as East Acton green by 1474. 78 Medieval …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… tributary, from Springfield near the Ealing boundary, at a point north of the Steyne and continues down the west side of the Steyne to cross the Oxford road at the foot of Acton hill. Thence it flows south-eastward … it joins the eastern branch of Stamford brook from Old Oak common. The article was written in 1979. Any references to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were held for the vill of Acton by 1383 14 and were taken at Fulham on the Sunday after Hocktide or another day … taken together. The main business, apart from paying the common fine and appointing officers, concerned ditches and … Local government after 1836. Acton joined Brentford poor law union in 1836. 56 The vestry in 1848 appointed a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Place green, the Steyne, East Acton Lane, and Acton Green common to Acton local board. 46 Enfranchisement of individual … the chapter of ST. PAUL'S, to be used for successive deans at a rent of £5 to support a chantry, and the estate was … to his son Thomas and comprised 75 a. west of Old Oak common and Old Oak Lane. 14 By 1842 it belonged to the King …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by the established denominations between the World Wars at Acton Green and, with the spread of housing, in East … Congregationalists and Wesleyans agreed to share premises at Acton hill. 51 Congregationalists. Calvinists reg. new … disused day sch. at corner of Fitzquest St. and Old Oak Common Lane, E. Acton. 81 Old Oak Meth. church built in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Park museum. In addition to the medicinal springs at Acton wells, 77 several houses had their own wells. … in front of his house in 1666, and there was also a pump at the upper end of Acton town, by the main highway. 82 A … wastes and commons, and part of the largest, Acton Green common, thereupon became a recreation ground. 74 In 1888 the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Acton wells, and Catherine Acton, widow, who was living at the Old King's Head, were the only papists. 17 Catherine Acton was reported again in 1708, at the Crown alehouse, with George Hill, gentleman, and John … church founded 1922, using breeze-block hall in Old Oak Common Lane, E. Acton. New building 1961 by John Newton, …