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… Hampstead Caen Wood and north end CHAPTER XXXIV. HAMPSTEAD.CAEN WOOD AND NORTH … with additional privileges. We are told by Mr. Park, in his "History of Hampstead," that in early times it was a … in the gift of the abbot and monks of the convent of St. Peter in Westminster. To this day the Dean and Chapter of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Sir Richard Steele the essayist stayed in 1712 to evade his creditors. The house, which stood on a mound on the west side of Haverstock Hill and was depicted, among others, by Constable, was also where … the college appointed John Shaw, the developer of St. John's Wood, as surveyor and in 1826 obtained an Act to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… churchwardens to defray their expenses, about £16 a year, and, up to 1802, to pay for the sacramental bread and wine. … loaf on Good Friday, and £10 given by John Rixton during his lifetime. In 1824 the whole income went into the general … a rent charge of 56 s. a year on 2 a. near Battle Bridge, St. Pancras, later Cromer Street, Gray's Inn Road, with which …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from Richard le Child, who in 1312 held a customary house and 30 a., probably on the Hendon side. A similar estate was held at the same time by Richard Blakett, 27 who gave his name to Blacketts well, 28 which in 1632 was one of the … Avenue, built in 1901 by the artist George Swinstead, was St. Luke's church, designed by Basil Champneys in 1898. At …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… when it was included in the valuation of the rectory and vicarage of Hendon, 76 as it was again in 1262-3. 77 It … paid £10 a year to a chaplain to serve the cure. 2 By his will of 1629, Baptist Hicks, Viscount Campden, settled a … was Thomas Ainger, incumbent 1841-63 and canon of St. Paul's 1859-63. He was an energetic pastor and poor-law …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… called Kilburn Street or Road, 19 was the Roman road to St. Albans and beyond. Almost parallel to it on the east was a route … 1850s. 64 Perhaps many were like a man who rode daily to his City counting house in 1845 and complained at having to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1086 to the manorial demesne, which had I ploughteam and I serf. The other 1½ was villein land, but I hide of it … 1297. The tenants rendered 8 or 10 geese at the feast of St. Peter in Chains (1 Aug.), 42 or more chickens at … 28 It was subsequently subleased to Thomas Stringfield, 29 Anthony (1725) and Thomas Grove (1749-73), 30 and Thomas …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… will of 1780, which included annual payments for educating and clothing 6 boys and 4 girls between the ages of about 8 … a girls' school for 40, North End dame school for 26, and St. John's chapel schools for 76 boys, 40 girls, and 40 … and was demolished to make way for council flats. 31 St. Anthony's preparatory school, no. 90 Fitzjohn's Avenue, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hampstead Frognal and the Central Demesne Frognal And The Central Demesne. … John and Thomas Smith. Thomas, a bricklayer, had divided his into two. 74 All the property had passed to John Padmore, gentleman, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields by 1741, when he acquired waste near …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 63 It stretches from Highgate Road across northwestern St. Pancras and the northern part of Hampstead, and at two points reaches … Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson's freehold and created as part of his abortive preparations to build there. 92 Whitestone pond …