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Survey of London
… Acknowledgments Acknowledgments The Council has received help from many quarters in the preparation of this volume, and the names of persons and institutions to … P. A. Fox; Mr. Andor Gomme; Miss M. Gooding; Mr. David Green; the Hon. C. J. G. Guest; Mr. N. C. Hall; Mr. H. M. …
A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire
… Research for this survey was undertaken as part of the work of the Social and Economic Study of Medieval London, … Brooke, Martha Carlin, Chris Cooper, Tony Dyson, Judith Green, Jonathan Hunn, Jean Imray, Gillian Keir, Betty …
The Environs of London
… THIS parish is supposed to have derived its name from the quantity of oak timber which it produced; Ac, in the Saxon language, … Lord Mayor of London in 1753, had a seat at Turnham Green within this parish 24. The church. The church of Acton, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Acton Beauchamp AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN EAST HEREFORDSHIRE … of the same period. (3). Dawfields, cottage W. of Acton Green and about 1 m. E. of the church, has been partly …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (1,934 a., 783 ha.) 1 is a long, roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes below Ragleth Hill across Ape Dale … c. 1961-2. 49 In the 18th century there was a bowling green to the south, a formal garden to the east, and the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… dedicated to St. Mary existed by 1231, when Walter, rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church served the whole parish until 1872. 83 The … 45 Part of the cost was met from the sale of Masons green and other waste and from compensation from the G.W.R. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Acton town lay on the high road from London to Oxford, which was not superseded … the highway in their parishes and as far as the City of London, 8 and a Londoner left money towards its repair in … Road, known as Willesden Lane in 1842, to join Norwood or Green Lane at the boundary and lead thence to the Harrow …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agrarian history. Agrarian History The field system of the five-hide holding that became the Somerset estate was … field called North field had existed east of Friars Place green and north of East Acton in 1588; 96 40 a. there were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… children at 1 s. a week, which was paid out regularly by the churchwardens until 1816 and thereafter into the National … William Antrobus, in 1805 offered to assist the foundation of a school for the poor; 33 nothing further was mentioned, … opening of National schools at East Acton in 1862, Acton Green in 1863, and South Acton, All Saints', in 1868, while …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Growth GROWTH. Prehistoric settlement is attested by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 Although the name Acton, meaning 'oak town', is Anglo-Saxon, it was … north and south of common land known as East Acton green by 1474. 78 Medieval settlement was mainly around the …