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A History of the County of Middlesex
… charity, and a quarter of the divisible charities. West Hackney's share was a quarter of the divisible … the right to distribute charities. Claims on South and West Hackney were advanced by the reformed Hackney vestry and … Henry Monger, by will proved 1669, 40 gave land in Well Street and £400 to build six brick almshouses, for men aged …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to Stamford Hill was named Clapton Common. 85 Clapton Street, on a local route still in the 1720s a 'back road', 86 … in 1664 was assessed for hearth tax with districts farther west; in 1672 it was assessed on 74 houses, a number exceeded … the school which became Newcome's to the south. 93 On the west side a house with 1½ a. was conveyed in 1714 by John …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hackney Communications COMMUNICATIONS Ermine Street, 22 the main artery from Roman London to Lincoln and the north, kept to the west side of the parish to avoid flooding from the Lea. 23 A … Street at the modern junction with Sylvester Road. 38 From west to east across the parish the northsouth routes were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the high road. 87 The area under discussion extends west from London Fields and the edge of Hackney village to … village until the 19th century, was not described as a street. The stretch nearest Kingsland Road was an easterly … development in 1745 was confined to the high road, on the west side to Kingsland hospital and buildings west and north …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… DE BEAUVOIR TOWN De Beauvoir Town is taken to be the south-west corner of Hackney parish from Kingsland Road west to Southgate Road and from the Regent's canal north … 1834, except immediately north of Englefield Road. To the west there was new building only by the canal, at the corners …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… took up 80 a. 68 Four ploughed fields stretched from the west end of Dalston Lane southward to the parish boundary and … rights), comprised Hackney Downs, London Fields, Well Street common, North and South Mill Fields, and most notably … 1912. The Welford family, prominent dairymen on the north-west side of London, had 3 sheds in 1901 and one in 1912. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 30 South Hackney had a free school founded from Well Street chapel in 1807 and St. John's chapel school founded by … schools for South Hackney (formerly Norris's school) and West Hackney, and for St. James's, Clapton, St. Philip's … Parliamentary grants were paid to the Parochial school and West Hackney school, which had also received a building …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hackney Grove Street and Well Street GROVE STREET AND WELL STREET. Until … in Bethnal Green, met a footpath running from the south-west and continuing north-east as Grove Street Lane to … field. 88 The moated site of the 'Pilgrim's house' to the west, on the north side of the street, may have had a house …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Village HACKNEY VILLAGE originally lay along Church Street, whose course bent slightly where it crossed Hackney … credited with building Church House immediately to the west, where parish meetings took place by 1547. 96 A gap in … set back from the street front: Spurstowe's house to the west, 4 Robert Perwich's, unidentified but largest of all in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Lower Clapton. From what became the east end of the high street (from 1935 styled Homerton High Street), one way … medieval, since it was later depicted with a moat. 56 The west end of the street was separated from the north end of … The house was divided c. 1752: in the 19th century the west half was a boys' and then a girls' school and the east …