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Survey of London
… first laid out by the fourth Earl of Bedford in the 1630's it was closed at its southern end a few yards north of the … named Brydges Street, after the family of the fourth Earl's wife. In 1657 ground south of the street was bought from … similar complaint made fifteen years later by John Donne's son, Doctor John Donne the younger, suggests that the …
Survey of London
… built a few years earlier beyond the third Earl of Bedford's brick wall of c. 1610. 2 Both parts bore the name of … side east of Bow Street, was settled on the fourth Earl's younger son Edward by the family agreement of 16401. 63 He … of Somerset, father-in-law of the fourth Earl of Bedford's daughter, in the last year or so of his life. 65 But …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Brentwood 12. BRENTWOOD. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. lxvii. N.E.) Brentwood is a small town and parish 6 … (1). Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr stands on the S. side of the High Street 300 yards W. of the junction with … 1221 by the Abbot of St. Osyth for the use of the Abbey's tenants, but fell into disuse early in the 19th century and …
Brightwell Baldwin
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… ('street ford') referred probably to present-day Ashley's wood 7 and Cadwell ford, 8 while detached meadow belonging … Baldwin village is probably that called cadandune ('Cada's hill') in 887, when the adjacent dry valley called … known as holandene ('hollow valley'). 11 Two of the parish's medieval settlements developed close to springs, recalled …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which included Manor and Grange Farms, occupied the parish's central area, and there were six outlying farmsteads, of … 4 Earlier in the 19th century a moated site on the parish's eastern border (the 'Black Moat') had been added to the … boundary traversed downland. 11 The northern boundary's eastern section ran along a 'freeboard or highway' within …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Norton presumably fell within the jurisdiction of Bampton's minster church. A separate church was established probably … rights, because the churchyard is part of the village's central bloc of land. Probably from its foundation until at … the vicarage was ordained) drew an annual pension of 4 s. 11 The abbey retained the advowson until the Dissolution …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Broadwindsor 15 BROAD WINDSOR (B.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XIX, S.W. (b)XIX, S.E. (c)XX, S.W. (d)XXVIII, N.E. (e)XXIX, N.W.) … Font: square bowl of Purbeck stone with diagonal and chequer designs on faces, moulded under edge to take the …
Survey of London
… timber yard on the triangular site at the corner of Brook's Mews and Avery Row, behind No. 39 (then 50) Brook Street … Street, which had recently been vacated by John Phillips's executor. He was granted a new sixty-three-year lease of … against the commissioners of sewers and left it to Wyatt's own choice whether to rebuild or not. 114 In the event …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Broxted 14. BROXTED. (B.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xiv. S.E. (b)xxiii. N.E. (c)xxiii. N.E.) Broxted is a small parish and village about 7 m. S.S.E. of Saffron Walden. Ecclesiastical a (1). Parish Church …
A History of the County of Somerset
… north-south bands of clay with Forest Marble or Fuller's Earth, followed further west by limestone, Midford and … 1854. 30 Other bridges in the town or parish include Swill's bridge, built in 1770, and another carrying what was called … while West End was largely the product of the town's industrial expansion in the earlier 19th century. Several …