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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Besford - Beverley Besford BESFORD, a township, in the parish of Shawbury, union of Wem, hundred of Pimhill, N. … Besford (St. Andrew) BESFORD ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union, and Upper division of the hundred, of Pershore, … Ford, passes through the northern part of the parish. Sir Richard Gresham, father of Sir Thomas Gresham who built the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Beskwood Parke Beskwood Parke. King Henry the first granted to the Priory of Lenton, to have two carts … be closed in with a pale, and to be then in the keeping of Richard de lawche [de la Vache] Knight. 3 King Edward the … Newstede. 4 The Wood of Beskwood was, 2 E. 3, granted to Richard de Strelley for his life, paying the extent thereof …
Survey of London
… (Imperial War Museum) CHAPTER 9: BETHLEM HOSPITAL, NOW THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, IN LAMBETH ROAD Bethlem Hospital, now the Imperial War Museum, though much truncated, is the … stone of the hospital was laid by the President, Sir Richard Carr Glyn, on 18th April, 1812. By October, 1814, the …
Old and New London
… Bethnal Green CHAPTER XVIII. BETHNAL GREEN. Origin of the NameThe Ballad of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal GreenKirby's CastleThe Bethnal Green MuseumSir Richard Wallace's CollectionNichol Street and its … Glory." It was eventually turned into a madhouse. Sir Richard Gresham, father of the builder of the Royal Exchange, …
The Environs of London
… Bethnal Green BETHNAL-GREEN. Bethnal-Green made a parish. THE very populous and extensive parish of Stepney having … It is still called in the writings Kirby Castle. Sir Richard Gresham. Sir Richard Gresham, a citizen of great note in the reign of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the demesne was divided and sold a few years later, only one … also took leases from other estates along Green Street. Richard Corker occupied 23 a. of Bishop's Hall in the … estates passed to his widow c. 1785 and then to his nephew Richard, who lived elsewhere and let out his own estates by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… St. George's chapel could be obtained as a schoolhouse for the poor of Bethnal Green. 80 It was, however, apparently used only for the dissenting academy at Bishop's Hall 81 and the first … Only one of the schools of 1828 survived until 1851, Ann Miller's in St. Matthew's Place, Hackney Road, with 14 girl …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, mostly within Bethnal Green, sequestrated … and Old Ford Lane, 38 to Mary, widow of Gen. or Adm. Richard Deane. 39 In 1654 she sold the estate to Robinson, a … it to John Smyth, William's brother, who sold it to Richard Knight of St. Giles without Cripplegate, armourer, in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green Public Services PUBLIC SERVICES WATER SUPPLY. Until the 19th century Bethnal Green relied on springs or wells. … conduit and lead pipes in Conduit close, part of Pyotts on the east side of Cambridge Heath, by 1601. 79 According to an … may have been erected by the Austin Friars to whom Richard II granted in 1394 land with a spring on Cambridge …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Roman Catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM A Cornish recusant, Richard Tremayne, was living in Bethnal Green when he was … few if any'. 63 There were English Roman Catholics in the area in the 1830s and 1840s 64 and four families of 'avowed …