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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Acton town lay on the high road from London to Oxford, which was not superseded until … in 1504. 9 Acton inhabitants often failed to repair the road in the 17th and 18th centuries, when landholders were … proposed to use the spring east of Acton town to keep the road clear. 11 The worst stretch was Acton hill, which rose …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… another field, just west of Church field along the London road, had a gravel pit in 1723. 39 In 1232 the bishop of … the Mill Hill estate and including a dye works in Enfield Road, and by 1890 there were over 170, still mainly small … of an industrial estate between Bollo Lane, Stanley Road, Bollo Bridge Road, and the North London railway, where …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by Henry Mayner Coules, who had an academy in Mill Hill Road in 1873. 47 In the 1870s the school occupied Bank House, … Villas, Horn Lane, in 1890 and at Shalimar, Pembridge Road, by 1901. At one time the largest private girls' school … Hopkins ran a girls' day school at no. 28 Churchfield Road West by 1890, which closed c. 1932. 55 Leith House, no. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… as the Tabard and the Cock, along the south side of the road, were inns. 77 The hamlet of East Acton, mentioned in … Church Acton most of the farmhouses lay along the Oxford road or Horn Lane, with only a few outlying farms. Friars … tenement with 30 a. near Bollo Lane and the Brentford high road, probably lay there. 81 Londoners were increasingly …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… brook. The southern boundary lay along the line of a Roman road, part of which remains as Chiswick High Road, but was adjusted in 1894 to follow the District and … the rest of East Acton and the parish south of Uxbridge Road, except around Mill Hill and Heathfield, where Taplow …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… near the western boundary of the parish north of Uxbridge Road. They were leased to Samuel Wegg in 1777 and again in … 50 a. and three houses on the north side of Uxbridge Road, given by Geoffrey FitzWalter, who held them from Peter … Acton or SPRINGFIELD farm, with 145 a. north of Uxbridge Road, c. 1801. 92 After Thomas Willan's death the house and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Meth. Free church, between nos. 41 and 43, Bollo Bridge Road, by 1880. Sixth London circuit 1880, 87 London …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 10 In 1902 the U.D.C. bought a site in Southfield Road for a dust destructor and electricity plant, but it was … was built, on 3½ a. near the Friars in Wales Farm Road, and opened in 1909. 11 By 1928 all rubbish was burnt in Wales Farm Road. 12 In 1955 house refuse was disposed of outside the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from an early date, due to Acton's position on the Oxford road. The Tabard on the Hope was mentioned in 1377 and 1505, … of Manchester met at the Prince of Wales in Church Road from 1863. 6 The lodge built its own hall in Acton Lane … War, the club was housed in a new building in Strafford Road. The churches organized many social activities in the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… or to loose any ships, barks, or boats, out of harbery or road upon that day; and who shall doe in the contrary hereof …