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A History of the County of Middlesex
… restorations were made to the nave roof in 1895, the south-east chapel in 1917, and the whole church in 1960-4. There is … a piscina in the chancel, an Easter sepulchre in the south-east chapel, and an Elizabethan communion table. 15 Brasses, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Junction it became Station Road. A lane running south-east from the east end of Harlesden green to join Harrow Road was recorded … its junction with Kilburn Lane. Roughly parallel to the east Brand's Lane, recorded in 1649, and called Causeway in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 15 at the principal manor, 4 at Harlesden, and 1½ at East Twyford. The largest manor, which had no demesne, was … and 10 with ½ virgate each. No demesne was recorded at East Twyford, where 3 villeins had 2½ virgates. In the three … estates together there was woodland for 700 pigs. Only East Twyford had increased in value since 1066, the main …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a boys' secondary school which opened in 1864 in Quex Road east of Edgware Road and had moved by 1890 to Willesden Lane, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Borough of Brent. Willesden was bounded on the north-east by the Roman Watling Street, later Edgware Road, on the north and west by the river Brent, and on the south-east by the Kilburn brook. An ancient track, some of it … the 18th century. 10 The river Brent, running from north-east to south-west, flooded frequently. It was dammed between …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was mentioned in the lease of the manor in 1544. 68 At East Twyford a court leet was mentioned in a conveyance of … 15 members. South Kilburn had six members, North Kilburn, East Willesden and West Willesden three each. There was a … 25 For the areas long built over, especially the south-east with its overcrowded houses, a slum clearance plan was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and Harlesden manor, was divided between eight prebends: East Twyford in the south-west, Neasden in the north-west, … and Chambers, Brondesbury, Bounds, and Mapesbury in the east. The manor or prebend of BOUNDS or WILLESDEN may have … from the position of its demesne lands, part in the south-east, on the boundary at Kilburn, and part extending along …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… conveyed in 1454 is to be identified with the one marked east of the junction of Dog Lane and Neasden Lane in 1599. 93 … (d. 1543), whose predecessors had lived in a house on the east side of Neasden Lane, called Little's or Barnhaw, … rebuilt or much enlarged another house, also on the east side of the lane, previously called Catewood's and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… is divided into two natural drainage areas, the south-east corner (Kilburn, Kensal Green, and part of Harlesden) …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… other by open fields, whereas the prebendal estates to the east comprised enclosed demesne lands with isolated farms. 6 … cottages. The largest houses were Neasden House and East Twyford manor house, the rest being modest farmhouses. 9 … sort of layout was avoided on the prebendal estates to the east, where the whole area was owned by the Ecclesiastical …