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A History of the County of Middlesex
… of oats and sheep, sent oats and hay to the college's hospice in London, and also yielded wheat, cows, and oxen. … 71 On the Oxgate estates woodland formed 15 a. of Tanner's estate in 1675 but had entirely disappeared by 1755, 72 30 … 17 per cent by 1815. 84 Arable was 40 per cent of Franklin's farm at Oxgate in 1686 and 17 per cent c. 1790, 85 while at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… when a parish school was opened in Willesden, Freelove's gift being used to build a schoolroom and voluntary … own National schools. Kilburn was the first with St. Paul's, opened in 1847 and replaced in 1867 by Holy Trinity. The … schools on the borders of the parish (St. Augustine's, Kilburn, and St. John's, Kensal Green) for 589, a total in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… opening a synagogue. Services were held at the L.M.S. institute in Edgware Road and in 1930 at Neasden mission … Hamedrash or Keser Torah had opened at no. 62 St. Gabriel's Road by 1949 when it was a member of the Union of Orthodox … Lane. It contained three buildings in stone designed by N. S. Joseph, and the graves of Baron Mayer de Rothschild (1874) …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Government. In 1294 the dean and chapter of St. Paul's established their title to view of frankpledge, the assize … not maintaining a pound. 53 Some of the dean and chapter's jurisdiction appears to have been exercised in the courts … every seven years. A value of £1 was put on the manor's courts leet and baron in 1649, including waifs, strays, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to be a confirmation by King Athelstan c. 939 to St. Paul's monastery in London of estates including ten mansae at … generally thought to be spurious. 39 Nevertheless St. Paul's certainly had estates there before the Conquest. A list … was a submanor of 240 a. held in the 1270s by Thomas de Basing (d. 1275), a minor, but seized by Sir Robert de Bruce. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1454 and 1465. In 1480 Roberts and the others, at Careley's request, enfeoffed William Page of Harlesden, who in 1495 … brother and trustee George renewed the lease for William's son, a minor. The younger William renewed the lease in 1749 … 1670 and stood west of Neasden green. 96 St. Bartholomew's Hospital owned a house at Church End which in 1547 was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… bldg. used for Sunday sch. until closed 1907. 7 St. James's iron Cong. chapel opened in Cambridge Rd., Kilburn, by 1872 … 13 Congregation met in constitutional hall in St. Mary's Rd., Harlesden before foundation stone of chapel laid at … at Willesden Green after open-air mission by Spurgeon's students 1881, met in cottage, stable, and shop until …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a station at Fortune Gate in the junction between St. Mary's Road and Harrow Road. 47 In 1913 the Harlesden station … 52 Willesden petty sessional court opened in St. Mary's Road, Harlesden, in 1887 and was rebuilt in 1889. Its … of the fire service, the Kilburn, Willesden, and St. John's Wood volunteer fire brigade was established in 1863. 57 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green in the 1900s and a church and hospital (St. Andrew's) at Dollis Hill at the time of the First World War. There … cult of Our Lady of Willesden. 78 St. Catherine's chapel of ease, no. 59 Chaplin Rd., Willesden Green, … Little Company of Mary or Sisters of Mercy ran St. Andrew's hospital 1913-73 in Dollis Hill Lane. 86 A small community …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… GROWTH. Apart from Roman Watling Street, evidence of man's activities in the Willesden area before the Saxon period is … Lane. The whole parish was in the hands of St. Paul's cathedral by 1000 and prebendal estates were carved out of … provided for underfed children by the Willesden Children's Aid Association during the winter of 1905-6, and the …