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Old and New London
… river-side, and intersected by numerous small streams and ditches; though one antiquary has suggested, with more than … builded houses on that side of the river over against the city. It was called the Abbot's Inn of St. Augustine, in … of Surrey," "formerly stood a spacious stone building, the city residence of the Priors of Lewes, in Sussex, whenever …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… presentments regarding over-grazing, blocked lanes and ditches, or similar disputes. 5 An ale taster (presenting … Berrick, and sometimes also ruled over grazing or blocked ditches. 7 In the early 19th century it also appointed a …
A Dictionary of London
… name has been variously used to designate : one of the City gates, a port or quay on the Thames, one of the principal City markets. It seems probable, and recent discoveries tend to confirm the view, that in early times the City was enclosed by a wall on its southern side as well as …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Barony parish, county of Lanark. It is a suburb of the city of Glasgow, and one of the divisions recently separated … in width, and, in some places, in the form of two parallel ditches, with an interval between them of fifty feet in …
Survey of London
… Bethlem Hospital The Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London took the priory and hospital under their … new building on what was then an open site provided by the City in Moorfields. There it remained for over a century, but … whereby, in exchange for the land in Moorfields, the City Corporation granted 11 acres of ground in St. George's …
Old and New London
… the Ironmongers' Company, and a lease was taken from the City of London of some adjoining land, forming altogether an …
The Environs of London
… occasioned certain rhimes abusive of him and some other city builders of great houses, who had prejudiced themselves …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… land by 37 per cent, only to produce a 'dying inner city' with acute financial problems. A shrunken population, … Road and Kirkwall Place, Jameson Court in Russia Lane, and City Walk, flats around a courtyard in St. Matthew's Row. 78 … (1993); V.C.H. Mdx. x. 16. Name derived from 32 L.B. and City of Lond. Inf. from Circle Thirty Three Housing Trust. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Terrace to the east. 9 Abraham Keymer, landlord of the City of Paris, the only old building in the area, built some … were reported from 1839 in The Times, 39 the London City Mission Magazine, and other publications. Chadwick's … varied. Anglican and nonconformist clergy, with London City missioners active in Bethnal Green since 1838, were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Gardens in 1884-5. It was to improve access from the City and Finsbury to Bethnal Green Museum and Victoria Park … (Lond. Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 218-19. Ibid. 74; Lond. City Mission Mag. lxiv. 206;L.C.C. Lond. Statistics, xvi. 33; … End 1840-1939, ed. A. Newman (1981), 205, 208-13. Lond. City Mission Mag. lxxviii. 11. Census, 1881-1911; King, op. …