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Survey of London
… the north and south (Ill. 315). It covers the greater part of Spa Field, more commonly Spa Fields, which gained fame … Naoroji Street in 1992, after Dadabhai Naoroji, who became Britain's first Indian Member of Parliament (for Finsbury) in … 1990s. From 1965 for several years it staged the annual 'Festival of Fools', produced and directed by Ewan MacColl. It …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… 35 S.W., bTL 35 S.E., cTL 34 N.W., dTL 34 N.E.) The parish of Wimpole, 2468 acres in extent, lies about 8 m. S.W. of Cambridge. It is bounded on the N. by the ancient track … Honble Philip Lord Hardwicke Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain Anno 1749 H. Flitcroft Archt.'. Monuments and Floor …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of … invasion, was the capital of the Belgian territory in Britain. It retained its pre-eminence till it fell under the … latter part of his reign, yet he invariably celebrated the festival of Easter in this city. In 1079, Walkelyn, a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Lying on what was formerly the Derbyshire side of the river Trent, Winshill was transformed in the mid 19th … and private housing development in the south-eastern part of the township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient … there ought to have been an increase). Geol. Surv. of Gt. Britain, sheet 141 (1976); Soil Surv. of Eng. and Wales …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… rectangular parish covering over 3,500 acres on both sides of the South Winterborne river 2 miles S.W. of Dorchester. It lies entirely upon Chalk, which is overlaid … is perhaps the most impressive prehistoric earthwork in Britain. The complex structure and history of the monument, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove (q.v.), has …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … is an exception. R. W. L. Melbourne, Isle of Ely (Land of Britain, 71), 279, 297. In 1895 nearly 20 per cent. of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, separating, …