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Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames BROADWELL, LANGFORD AND … as the celebrations held at Broughton Hall to mark Queen Victoria's coronation or the end of the Crimean War. Filkins, … the Cotswolds. In 2011 the village also retained a small museum of local life, originally opened in 1931. Those …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Knowle BROCKHAMPTON, with Knowle, a tything, in the parish and hundred of Buckland-Newton, union of Cerne, Cerne … Brockhampton BROCKHAMPTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Bromyard, hundred of Broxash, county of … district in September, 1844, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and, conformably with its provisions, …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… is a small rural parish 18 km NNW of Gloucester and 5 km south-east of Ledbury (Herefs.). Situated at the … ancient parish was bordered by Herefordshire to the north and west and Worcestershire to the east. Before … 18 was celebrated in the early 19th century for Yate's museum of curiosities incorporating many items originally …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rectory, valued in the king's books at 4. 15. 7., and in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol: the tithes have been commuted for 270, and the glebe consists of an acre and a half. The church is a … here for the Hospital for Consumption was laid by Prince Albert, in June, 1844. The structure is of red brick, …
The Environs of London
… town, sufficiently corroborates this etymology. Situation and boundaries. Land-tax. Bromley is a market town 1, lying in the hundred of Bromley and Beckenham, and situated on the road to Tunbridge, at the … let to farm, 16 d.Among the Cottonian MSS. at the British Museum, is an account of the stock which ought to remain on …
The Environs of London
… supposes the name to be derived from brom, broom, and leag or lege, a field, or perhaps from the river Lea, … that it is derived from the Saxon word Brembel, a bramble, and lege, a field. Situation, boundaries, extent, &c. Bromley … the collection of pamphlets of that date in the British Museum. It appears that Sir John Maynard was released from …
Survey of London
… metropolis in the early nineteenth century. 1 Between 1832 and 1841 Parliament, in order to relieve this situation, … London by commercial companies. Of these the West London and Westminster Cemetery Company was one, and undertook to … Sir Henry Cole, first director of the South Kensington Museum; Thomas Cundy (d. 1895), architect; Sir John Fowler, …
Survey of London
… than the relatively tranquil offshoot between the Oratory and Pelham Street. But before 1855 there was no Cromwell … north side of this lane, in the vicinity of the present Victoria and Albert Museum, were numbered by the parish as in Brompton …
Survey of London
… South Side Nos. 1159 (odd) Brompton Road, Hans Crescent and Hans Road All these properties, stretching from the … of Sloane Street to the present No. 159 Brompton Road and to the parish boundary with Chelsea behind (see fig. 1 on … 19023, p. 211: photographs kindly supplied by the Kodak Museum. T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins, A History of London …
Survey of London
… Sir Jeffry Wyatville) throughout his architectural career and, with the exception of the modern shop front, the … 1860 when Empress Eugnie of France came to stay and Queen Victoria visited her here. 152 Then in 18645 the fronts of … 'Architectural Details', 1766, ms. vol. in Victoria and Albert Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, acc. no. D. …
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