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Survey of London
… Regent's Park from the commercial district to the east of it. The more interesting buildings in the street are the … 29 to 33 were originally two houses, the principal front of which faces west into St. Andrew's Place that leads into … Son of James Wyatt. He was surveyor to Westminster Abbey and designed Drury Lane Theatre (1811). No. 51. …
Survey of London
… Bridge to Vauxhall. The decision as to the position of the embankment on the Surrey side was probably due to … wished to improve the view from the windows and terrace of the newly completed Palace of Westminster; old Lambeth, Fore Street, High Street, etc., …
Survey of London
… The Prince's statue Plates 41b, 42b, 47a In respect of the Prince's statue and the groups, where the artists were chosen by the Queen, Scott's formal powers of control were very limited, but at an early date he made measured pleas for the power of influence. 225 This was only in the spirit of Derby's …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne ALBOURNE ALBOURNE 1 lies on the west side of the London- Brighton road two miles (3.2 km.) north of the … forms two ridges, one of which carries Albourne Place and Bishops Place, the two chief manor houses of the parish, … ed. H. Margary, pls. 20, 27. W.S.R.O., TD/E 104. Westm. Abbey Mun. 4023. Acts of P.C. 1577-8, 242-3. P.R.O., C 1/501, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and 1976 with Hurstpierpoint. After 1976 it formed part of the united benefice of Albourne with Sayers Common and Twineham. 63 The advowson … when Thurstan de Brock (fl. 1291-6) sold it to the bishop of Chichester; in 1295 the bishop conveyed it to the dean and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… it had c. 255 a. and occupied the south-east quarter of the parish. 69 By 1872 it had increased in size to c. 290 … the four largest farms in the parish, all tenanted, were Bishops Place farm, of 307 a., Albourne Place farm, including … and 1950s he and his sons farmed Inholmes, Yew Tree House, Bishops Place, High Cross, and Northpark farms in Albourne, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of ALBOURNE was held of Stretham in Henfield in the Middle … estate called Hurst which came to be divided between the bishops of Chichester and the Pierpoint family of … 1832), whose son, another namesake 44 (d. 1862), 45 had Bishops Place farm, of 307 a., c. 1840. 46 At the death in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Joan Alchorne of Albourne, who possibly lived at Bishops Place, was recorded as a recusant in 1593, 18 and a … household was mentioned in 1605. 19 The three dissenters of unknown denomination listed in 1676 20 were perhaps the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, hundred of Selkley, Marlborough and Ramsbury, … poor. Here was a small priory, a cell to the Benedictine abbey of Norwich. Aldenham (St. John the Baptist) ALDENHAM ( … 772 inhabitants. This was formerly the residence of the bishops of Chichester, whose palace here was destroyed in the …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… Aldermen in Parliament ALDERMEN OF LONDON IN PARLIAMENT. Until the Stuart period, and indeed until the Restoration, Aldermen of London were comparatively rarely found in Parliament except as representatives of the City. On the other hand it has been, from the earliest …