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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… by divers circumstances: a letter written to him by the metropolitan about the King's pleasure for preaching; after …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… companies which have been sold for the purposes of public improvements, (2) accumulations of fees paid to the common … "The companies are devoting themselves to judicious improvements" . . . . "Taking the period since 1831 when the … . . . . Since 1853, the Salters' Company has expended in improvements 34,776 l., donations to schools, &c., 22,083 l." …
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5
Provides a thematic account of the growth of metropolitan Essex since 1850. Also contains topographical accounts of Barking, Ilford, Dagenham and other areas of Essex now within greater London.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10, Hackney
Hackney was the largest parish transferred to the administrative county of London in 1889, and became a metropolitan borough with over 220,000 inhabitants, before giving its name to a Greater London borough in 1965.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington
These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by the late J. L. Moilliet, Esq., by whom considerable improvements and alterations were made, in the purest taste; … narrow, and the houses irregularly built; but considerable improvements have been made by the enlargement of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… introduction of the Teeswater breed; and all the recent improvements in husbandry, and in the construction of … loamy and clayey soil favouring its growth. Among the many improvements in agriculture, wedge-draining has been of great … all of which have been removed in the various improvements effected at different times. The present town is …
A Dictionary of London
… than as it is shown in O.S. 1880, in consequence of the Metropolitan Railway extensions, and there are only a few … arms of the Fruiterers' Company. Site now covered by the Metropolitan and Great Eastern Railway lines, etc. Adam and …