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A History of the County of Middlesex
… towns such as Enfield, Harrow, Uxbridge, Staines, and Brentford developed. By the mid-19th century the county had a … patronage could be obtained, if, like Mrs. Trimmer in Brentford, 17 one went about it in the right way. It has … School waned, so did the subscriptions. 58 Similarly at Brentford in 1708 a fall in subscriptions brought the school …
Survey of London
… lights under a contract made between the trustees and the Brentford Gas Light Company. 94 In 1851 the management of the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… with an 11 rent to Sir William Drake's almshouses 42; also Brentford Farm, near which are brickworks. Winchmore Hill, … its name probably survives in Bury End, Amersham, and in Brentford Farm and Wood near Coleshill. Overlordship rights …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… extending down the west bank of the river to the Thames at Brentford. Although New Brentford was a chapelry of Hanwell and has been a member of … century, it is historically much more connected with Old Brentford in Ossulstone hundred. Its history, therefore, has …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 27 This incident took place after the battle of Brentford and the withdrawal of the king's troops to Oxford. … i, 409. The king's infantry had advanced from Colnbrook to Brentford. Cal. S. P. Dom. 16445, pp. 14, 16, 20; 16457, pp. …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… after, Syndercomb's design of assassinating Cromwell near Brentford, as he was going to Hamptoncourt, was discovered. …
Old and New London
… instance of his effrontery occurred on the hustings at Brentford, when he and Colonel Luttrell were standing there … at the same taper; which reminds us of the two kings of Brentford smelling at one nosegay. (Timbs.) 1800. Sir William …
Survey of London
… Norland Square. 6 In 1842 he signed an agreement with the Brentford Gas Company for the lighting of the streets, 38 and …
Survey of London
… a little to the north of the high road from London to Brentford. Throughout the parish were dotted a growing number …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… This ridge forms the limit of the Thames valley east of Brentford and is a salient element in the topography of … further east on the north side of the river as far as Brentford, beyond which it forms a wide expanse around Walham … are the Little Ealing Brook, joining the Thames east of Brentford; Stamford Brook flowing through Acton Vale to the …