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Survey of London
… Northampton Square area South and north of Northampton Square South of Northampton Square Compton Street Compton Street was laid … named after Lord Grimthorpe, long-serving president of the British Horological Institute (see page 311). It was …
Survey of London
… the Barkantine Estate in the early 1960s, by the clearance of 60 houses, the compulsory purchase of a further 102 houses … carried out in 1984, with funding from the LDDC. 351 A health clinic was built between The Quarterdeck and Westferry … 83, 102. PBC Mins, 19456, p.146: Marian Bowley, The British Building Industry, 1966, p.215. PBC Mins, 19434, …
Survey of London
… river to Dolphin Lane, Batson's estate was the first part of Millwall to be systematically laid out for building. The … In the early 1840s all or part of it was occupied by the British Iron Company, iron manufacturers. By 1853 a small … postwar buildings were H. G. Turner & Partners of Haywards Health. 57 In 1986 outline planning permission for the …
Survey of London
… late eighteenth century the Byng family owned four pieces of ground in the Isle of Dogs. Two, both on the riverside, were inherited by … closed in 1970, Binks Brothers Ltd being taken over by British Ropes Ltd, which moved the business to Charlton. 111 …
Survey of London
… in Northern Millwall In 1780 the 16-acre field south of Tooke's estate was bought by the Commissioners for … and Reform Clubs, the Lyceum and St James's Theatres, the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament, the London Docks … Wills's tobacco factory at Bristol, Royal Holloway College at Egham, and Selwyn College, Cambridge. 326 Stuart's …
Survey of London
… Tooke Town Tooke Town In a district so much the product of the dynamics of private enterprise, it is appropriate that … London Wharf. 126 In 1926 Bullivants were taken over by British Ropes Ltd and at least part of the works closed soon … was extensively reconstructed as 'Stronghold Works' for British Ropes in 1934. Half of two tall storeys, half of four …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) NORTHIAM ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Rye, hundred of Staple, rape of Hastings, E. division of … and on the road from Gloucester to London. The ancient British road called the Lower Salt-way, leading from … and Chipping-Campden, in the exhibitions at Pembroke College, Oxford, instituted by George Townsend, Esq. An …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (1) Brackenbury Ditches Hill-fort. (10) miles N.N.E. of Cirencester) The notable series of linear ditches … appears in Bagendon (1) and Yanworth (2). The Romano-British settlement (2) within Norbury Camp may represent the … in Farmington and Northleach with Eastington. (2) Romano-British Settlement (SP 129156), within Norbury Camp (1), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by will proved 1658, left land in Standlake, a quarter of the rent to benefit the Northmoor poor; 17 in 1738 … buy c. 1 a., 18 which in 1738 yielded 25 s. Francis White of Fyfield (then Berks.), by will proved 1737, left £100 to … year, of which one third went to Northmoor. 19 St. John's College, Oxford, paid 40 s. a year to the poor by the earlier …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parochial rights in Northmoor between Reading abbey, owner of Stanton Harcourt church, and the abbey of St. Denis in … appropriated by Sir Thomas White in 1555 on behalf of his college, St. John's, Oxford. A vicarage was then ordained, … taking effect in 1558 on the death of the incumbent. 1 The college appropriated the vicarage in 1711, establishing a …