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A History of the County of Middlesex
… was creating 'a dismal but not a rowdy district' near South Mill field at Lower Clapton. 39 The social decline of … cause from the 1840s, followed only after the south part had been built up and in the wake of schemes for … average for an east London borough. Overcrowding in the south part was 'not pronounced', 51 perhaps because of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 13 s. 2 d., which were divisible among the three parishes. South Hackney was allotted a few localized charities, … about the right to distribute charities. Claims on South and West Hackney were advanced by the reformed Hackney … charities of Hackney and a quarter each to those of South and West Hackney. Schemes of the same date, later …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… courts from c. 1800 distinguished the parts north and south of Lea Bridge Road as Upper and Lower Clapton, and … to the north, and the school which became Newcome's to the south. 93 On the west side a house with 1½ a. was conveyed in … large and apparently early 18th-century house stood in the south angle of a way from Clapton field (later Clapton …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a track from Kingsland, part of it marked as Willow Walk south of the stream in 1831, by Dalston Lane, by a 'crossway' … Lane and the crossway were described in 1825 as the South and North Cross roads from Kingsland to Lower Clapton. … Homerton and Church Street. A branch from Well Street led south-east to Grove Street, a hamlet around the modern …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was held by Jacob Willis. Kingsland had the leper hospital south of the green. 96 Five buildings on the east side of the … charity, the Danhs, and the Actons to the east and south-east and of the Rhodes family's Lamb farm to the south and south-west. 5 Dalston c. 1800 was known for its …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Town DE BEAUVOIR TOWN De Beauvoir Town is taken to be the south-west corner of Hackney parish from Kingsland Road west … family, lords of Balmes, whose land extended farther south into Shoreditch, and excludes Ball's Pond Road, which … was stimulated by the cutting of the Regent's canal south of Balmes House, 84 by which time the house was an …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… consisted of Scotland farm, c. 138 a., with another 30 a. south of Homerton, 6 a. abutting Millfield Lane, and 64 a. … Downs, London Fields, Well Street common, North and South Mill Fields, and most notably Hackney marsh. The … estate in Leyton. 5 The mills in 1812 adjoined the south side of a bridge across the Lea, through whose centre …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1808 on the Stoke Newington side of the boundary. 30 South Hackney had a free school founded from Well Street … and St. Thomas's schools, there were National schools for South Hackney (formerly Norris's school) and West Hackney, … Society found least provision in the poorer parts of South Hackney. 36 Later National schools were those of St. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Lane in Bethnal Green, met a footpath running from the south-west and continuing north-east as Grove Street Lane to … assessed and administered together. 84 This account covers south-eastern Hackney, east of Mare Street and south of Wick Road. The names of Grove Street and of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with the stocks in front and lychgates to the north and south. The walled churchyard was overlooked on the north by the Vicarage and on the south by a range including the Black and White House and, … family, Cambridgeshire landowners who also held Darkes in South Mimms. 6 Sir Thomas Marsh (d. 1677), who was said to …