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Survey of London
… estate was laid out for speculative building in the 1730's and 1740's and the principal developers, Edward Cock and Francis … and here, as development had taken place in the 1720's when the Berkeley estate was still farmland, the frontage …
Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts:
… various sources, including London directories, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Repository, Christian Reformer, Baptist Quarterly, Musgrave's Obituary, Frederic Boase Modern English Biography, J. … of Commons 1754-1790, and biographical aids in Dr Williams's Library. DNB indicates the appearance of a member in the …
Old and New London
… an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." Macaulay's Ballad of " The Armada." Situation and Description of … of Numerous TumuliEncampment of the Danish ArmyWat Tyler's RebellionReception of Richard II. at BlackheathThe Emperor … VI. and the Duke of YorkThe Cornish RebelsThe Smith's ForgeReception of Cardinal Campegio, and of Bonevet, High …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Cumberland ward, E. division of Cumberland, 2 miles (S.) from Carlisle; containing 315 inhabitants. The manor was … E. division of the county of Cumberland, 2 miles (S.) from the city of Carlisle; containing 181 inhabitants. … of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 3 miles (S. W.) from Tideswell; containing 68 inhabitants. Blackwell …
History Theses 1901-1970
… 1957. Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, 160686. T.S. Williams. Wales M.A. 1936. Colonel Philip Jones, 161874. … 1959. Surrey politics in later Stuart England, 16601714. J.S.T. Turner. Newcastle M.Litt. 1969. The parliamentary … of Thomas Clifford, 1st Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. J.J.S. Shaw. Glasgow Ph.D. 1935. Hyde and the Convention …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… of the river Thames in what was, until 1974, the county's extreme south-west corner. The market town of Faringdon … although now broken up by hedgerows and trees. Morris's friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti thought it 'the most … little hamlet' unspoiled by industrialization. 8 Morris's influence continued throughout the 20th century, first in …
Survey of London
… monument to George IV at what later became known as King's Cross, and had taken out a number of patents for a variety … meeting of the board of directors was held at the company's offices in Essex Street, Strand, on 20 July 1837. Only five … Knowles, both of whom had acted as Counsel for the company's Bill as it went through Parliament, 9 and both of whom …
Survey of London
… rated houses were occupied by titled residents. Claridge's apart, Brook Street still retains much of the domestic … encompassing both the quirky Baroque of Edward Shepherd's elevation at No. 72 (Plate 3b) and the cool Palladian of Colen Campbell's at Nos. 76 (Plate 1a) and 78 (the latter now demolished). …
Survey of London
… timber yard on the triangular site at the corner of Brook's Mews and Avery Row, behind No. 39 (then 50) Brook Street … Street, which had recently been vacated by John Phillips's executor. He was granted a new sixty-three-year lease of … against the commissioners of sewers and left it to Wyatt's own choice whether to rebuild or not. 114 In the event …
A History of the County of Somerset
… north-south bands of clay with Forest Marble or Fuller's Earth, followed further west by limestone, Midford and … 1854. 30 Other bridges in the town or parish include Swill's bridge, built in 1770, and another carrying what was called … while West End was largely the product of the town's industrial expansion in the earlier 19th century. Several …