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A Dictionary of London
… Bell (The) Inn - Bell Alley, Hosier Lane Bell (The) Inn On the east side of Aldersgate Street, south of Barbican, in Aldersgate Ward … Bell Alley North out of Snow Hill, opposite Holborn Conduit, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, …
A History of the County of London
… Benedictine monks St Peter's abbey, Westminster HOUSE OF BENEDICTINE MONKS 2. SAINT PETER'S ABBEY, WESTMINSTER The real date of the foundation of Westminster Abbey must … at the north end of the abbey and pictures 'at the conduit leading to the new palace' cut down. In September the …
Old and New London
… "Fountains and trees our wearied pride do please, E'en in the midst of gilded palaces; And in our town the prospect gives … Piccadilly, but in a somewhat "higher latitude." Leaving Conduit Street, which was our point of divergence at the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 11 At Victoria's accession tradesmen's houses lined all the main roads in the west: Cambridge, Bethnal Green, and … Field settlement off Hackney Road and the eastern part of the green, Patriot Square, Jews' Walk, and Victoria Park … Sebrights, where by 1864 building was complete and South Conduit Street was renamed Viaduct Street. 48 William Henry …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY AGRICULTURE. Possibly excepting parts of Eastfield, all open-field land had been inclosed by 1652. … and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the demesne was divided and sold a few years later, only one … Ham or Beverley, in 1817 and 1826-7, W. Tillett in South Conduit Street in 1826-7 13 and 1836, John Barker at no. 2 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Stepney manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, mostly within Bethnal Green, sequestrated … abutment was described as a lane from the green to Conduit close. 78 Another 5-a. close, occupied by Thomas …
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. There was a conduit and lead pipes in Conduit close, part of Pyotts on the east side of Cambridge Heath, by 1601. 79 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Corfield Street (formerly Camden Gardens), probably part of a cemetery at Spitalfields. 18 Saxon beads from Brick Lane … have been associated with a settlement in Whitechapel. 19 The place-name Blithehale or Blythenhale, the earliest form … next to the natural spring, St. Winifred's well, in Conduit field at the northern end of the green. 22 A …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The Centre: Bethnal Green Road THE CENTRE: BETHNAL GREEN … c. 1650 was one built by John Godowne at the north-west of Great Haresmarsh before 1646, 91 at the eastern end of … who financed the operation. 54 A parallel road, North Conduit Street, existed by 1823. 55 Teale had built 12 houses …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The Green: Bethnal Green Village THE GREEN: BETHNAL GREEN VILLAGE. 26 The earliest area of settlement was probably around the green, particularly in … bounded west by Cambridge Heath Road, north and east by Conduit Close. 39 In 1637 Nicholas Dickens (d. 1653), a …