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A Dictionary of London
… of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now known by the sign of the "Bear and Ragged … Boy," given 1631 for the poor of the parish of St. Helen's Bishopsgate (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 103). Not further … Smithfield. Bear Key Stairs On the river, opposite Harp Lane and Young's Key, west of Bear Key (Rocque, 1746). Site …
A History of the County of Essex
… contained a small detached part of Abbess Roding. 5 Bird's Green, a hamlet in the extreme south-east of Beauchamp … population is located to the east of the church, at Bird's Green and along the road leading to it. In 1801 the … is Wood End Farm, which is linked with the main road by a lane which continues west to Leader's Farm in Abbess Roding. …
Survey of London
… been referred to in discussing those houses. Beavor Lane (called in a deed of 1758 the "Washway" and in 1750 the "Green Walk") is shown on John Salter's map of 1830, and Beavor Lodge appears therein much in its … in 1773, after his death, described as "late of St. George's, Hanover Square." In that year the house was in the …
A Dictionary of London
… (The) Brewhouse Beckford Court See Gateway Entrance. Beck's Rents South out of Royal Mint Street, west of No. 19 (Hatton, 17-8-O.S. 1880), near the west end. "Neck's Rents" in Supplement to … the Court, in 1672 (L. and P. Chas. II. XII. 273). Beech Lane South-east from No.13 Beech Street to No.51 Whitecross …
A History of the County of Essex
… the north with Little Ilford parish, followed White Post Lane (now High Street North) south to Jews Farm Lane (East … of ponds and springs, of which the most notable was Miller's well, a medicinal spring situated at the point where the … prove a littoral settlement, have been found near St. Mary's church and at North Woolwich. 13 Until the later 12th …
Survey of London
… Joseph Phillimore, as part of a settlement on the latter's marriage, and confirmed the transaction by his will. 1 … a frontage to Campden Hill Road, was bought by Joseph Gardner of St. Marylebone, a butcher. Within a short time he … to these streets and parts of the frontage to Plough Lane (now Campden Hill Road). By the late 1820's the pace of …
Survey of London
… court was extended westward into Bedfordbury in the 1880's its main exit for a visitor entering from Bedford Street … Earl of Bedford in 1631 to Richard Brigham, the King's coachmaker. Brigham did not appropriate all the hinterland … Cooke and Rider; Lacy's map. P. O. D. R.B.; E/BER, Maiden Lane, lease of 30 June 1727 to A. Godfrey. Ibid., Bedford …
Survey of London
… in Bedford Street in the early years. Sir Francis Kynaston's aristocratic academy, the Musaeum Minervae, had a brief … Howlett and Durham still occupy the premises), Robert Gardner, bookseller, and Alexander Fraser, wine merchant. 49 … the business previously dispatched at the St. Martin's Lane office. 56 The use of the building as a public post …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a silty clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 10. 2., and in the patronage of the Crown: the … of Nantwich, First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Tarporley; containing 428 inhabitants. This …