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Survey of London
… part of a through-route from Waterloo Bridge to St. Giles's and Bloomsbury, and the public or semipublic nature of the … into Long Acre (Plate 7), and until the building of Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre in 1809 was essentially the usual … to the Paving Commissioners of St. Martin in the Fields as a public highway. At first it had a bar across it. …
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
… with the other original Covent Garden streets in the 1630's and was named after the infant Duke of York (b. 1633). … an early feature of the street. An episode in the 1660's tells something of one of these rather unsubstantial … In any event a shop was again erected at Fitz's house by 1669. 97 In 1714 one of the properties on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Bowers Gifford 7. BOWERS GIFFORD. (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. lxxvii. N.W.) Bowers Gifford is a parish 8 m. W.N.W. … was re-built early in the 16th century except for the S. wall of the nave which is thicker than the other walls and … and with moulded jambs, two-centred arch and label. In the S. wall are two early 16th-century windows each of three …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 1 mile (S. E.) from Bradford; containing 8918 inhabitants. The … the village. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 21. 13. 11.; net income, 393; patron, the Earl of … of the Dean and Canons of the College of St. Mary-in-the-Fields, at Norwich, who, in 1522, petitioned the bishop for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Bowness on Windermere 11 BOWNESS ON WINDERMERE (B.f.) (O.S. 6 in. XXXII, S.E.) Bowness is a small civil parish on the E. side of the … 1631, plain marble tablet; on second pier, (2) to Thomas Dixon, 1691, brass plate with wooden frame. Paintings: On …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on the edge of the park called Mannings Hill, Cuff's Corner, and Buck Hill, and part of the settlement called … an estate yard in 2000. The fourth farmstead, Litton's Farm, was on the site north-west of Home Farm on which a … claimed successfully that the king had inclosed Abbot's Waste, c. 50 a. in the south corner of the park, without …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Boxworth 5 BOXWORTH (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 36 N.W., bTL 36 N.E., cTL 36 S.W., dTL 36 S.E., … E.N.E. of the church, where disturbed ground in the modern fields may indicate old house sites and closes. Much of this … c. 1570 and a 19th-century Britannia metal alms dish by Dixon. Pulpit: octagonal, sides each of two bolection-moulded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (8) below). d (2) Iron Age Settlement (?) (SP 909575), S. of the village, on Boulder Clay at 100 m. above OD. A … 13, Bozeat (1)). d(5) Iron Age Settlement (SP 911579), S.W. of the village on Boulder Clay at 99 m. above OD. There … CPE/UK/1994, 31901). (17) Cultivation Remains. The common fields of the parish were enclosed by Act of Parliament in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… than 700 hectares, is bounded by the Great Ouse on the S.E. and by smaller watercourses on the other three sides. … Age gold coin of the Dobunni is also recorded (Mack, 386; S. S. Frere (ed.), Problems of the Iron Age in S. Britain … (Northants. SMR). (5) Cultivation Remains. The common fields of Brackley were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of …