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Survey of London
… to Fulham stretching south-westwards from Knightsbridge as far as Pelham Street, beyond which it becomes Fulham Road. But until 1935 Brompton Road extended only as far as the junction with Thurloe Place (opposite the Brompton … Kensington Station, just off the turnpike road along the lane to Earl's Court. This lane, generally called Brompton …
Survey of London
… page 2). Anciently a thin strip of Kensington extended as far east as Knightsbridge Green, but in terms of land … behind impracticable. But west of Rawstorne Street a mews lane (originally Chapel Row) was projected behind the houses, … to the adjoining Houses containing a continual Depth of Water and Filth to the extern of three feet above the bottom …
Survey of London
… Swan inn, which occupied a group of buildings facing the lane later enlarged into Sloane Street, with a tap house … Joseph Clark to develop the remainder of Long Close as far as its westward boundary next to the Red Lion inn, which … to have been to fill the frontage along Brompton Road as far as the Red Lion without substantial breaks for streets, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and is extensively used in the manufacture of bricks. The water, in many of the wells, is strongly impregnated with … is its mines of coal and ironstone, which occupy, as far as they are at present ascertained, rather more than half … Park wall, running nearly in the direction of Spon Lane, beyond which no borings that have hitherto taken place, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… outbuilding, at the S. corner of Sherford Street and Back Lane. The House is of two storeys with attics, and was built …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… spring, possessing precisely the same properties as the water of Holywell, and producing the mosses Jungermannia … producing several kinds of crops, of which oats is by far the most considerable. There is a large portion of … is about two feet in depth, and appears to be incumbent on water, which rises up through the fissures occasionally made …
Survey of London
… The substantial portion to the east of South Molton Lane and Avery Row lies outside the Grosvenor estate and is not included in this volume. Beneath South Molton Lane and Avery Row flowed the Tyburn Brook, which formed the … at the east end between Davies Street and South Molton Lane. Encouraged, no doubt, by the advance of commerce in …
Survey of London
… to fit the triangular plot at the corner with South Molton Lane. 8 By 1778 most of them had projecting shop windows … were rebuilt, No. 36, at the corner with South Molton Lane, having a handsome symmetrical pilastered shop front, … middle now blocked. In the front basement area is a lead water tank with Campbell's initials and the date: 'C.C. …
Survey of London
… [i.e. the Tyburn Brook, flowing beneath Avery Row] the water has evidently found its way to the foundation of my … not concluded and Claridge's was now in distinctly low water with the Grainger Society 'in possession practically'. …
A Dictionary of London
… parish of St. Michael Queenhithe extending from Poddyng Lane West to the tenement of St. Mary Graces Abbey east and … by the names of their respective owners. Brook's Wharf Lane South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 48, leading to … 1816). Not named in the maps. Broven's Court, Philpot Lane See Brabant Court. Brown Bear Alley or Court North out …