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The Environs of London
… town, sufficiently corroborates this etymology. Situation and boundaries. Land-tax. Bromley is a market town 1, lying … son, married William Willson, Esq. whose grandson William Wilson, Esq. sold it, in 1792, to Edward George Lind, Esq. … in lately, the houses are not yet built. The Rev. George Wilson, anno 1718, gave 200l.; Mrs. Eleanor Emmett, anno …
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 … of Ossulston, about two miles from Whitechapel church, and adjoining to Stratford-Bow. The parish is of small …
Survey of London
… than the relatively tranquil offshoot between the Oratory and Pelham Street. But before 1855 there was no Cromwell … Cromwell Road connect with Hammersmith via Talgarth Road and so provide a major thoroughfare between London and the … one; in Knightsbridge further east, Woollands and Harvey Nichols went through similar stages in the same years. …
Survey of London
… extended up to the western continuation of Knightsbridge and another detached piece occupied the site of the present … in 1903. 154 Shortly after this, the architect Harry Wilson advised on altering one of these and supervised some … The only feature in the church definitely known to be Wilson's is the figurative bas-relief over the sedilia, …
Survey of London
… South Side Nos. 1159 (odd) Brompton Road, Hans Crescent and Hans Road All these properties, stretching from the … John Trotter; Robert Ashton, statuary and mason; Arthur Wilson, bricklayer; John Herman, glazier; Thomas Zieltzke, … also worked recently for the store's nearby rival, Harvey Nichols of Lowndes Terrace, Knightsbridge. 98 But 1894 was …
Survey of London Monograph
… modern front, which gives no sign of the dignity and antiquity of which it is the screen. This front, of quiet … ago, was the last of several considerable alterations, and replaced what was existing at the time of Hollar's … Persecution, 1872; Camden, Historie of Elizabeth, 1675; Nichols, Progresses of Q. Elizabeth, 1788; Dictionary of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… income, 116; patron, James Praed, Esq., lord of the manor, and proprietor of the parish: the glebe comprises 14 acres. … of which the abbot of Ramsey Abbey sat in parliament; and had, in consequence, four knights' fees annexed to it. … Atherton family: Bank House is the property of J. W. R. Wilson, Esq.; and Uplands, the seat of Lieut.-General Sir …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… a thin sliver of land between Broadwell, Langford, and the county boundary, stretching for three miles (5 km) … a largely open wooded area. From the 18th century (and possibly earlier) the village effectively merged with … included his brother Edmund and the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. At Broughton, a single weekly service with …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Gay, Oxon; canon of Lincoln 1660-8, of Southwell 1660-4, and of Ely 1660, died 23 Feb., 1678-9, brother of Samuel … rector of Bingham, Notts, 1649, canon of Lincoln 1662, and of Southwell 1664, died 19 Jan., 1687-8, brother of Henry … 6 Dec., 1622, aged 17; a student of Gray's Inn 1624. See Nichols' History of County Leicester, ii. 528; & Foster's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the same name, has interlocking boundaries with Pitcombe and Shepton Montague to the west and south 92 and dependent chapelries of Brewham to the east … 1777. 44 The church was reseated to the designs of James Wilson in 1842, incorporating 17th-century pew ends, and …