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A History of the County of Shropshire
… rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes below Ragleth Hill across Ape Dale and … up again to the crest of Wenlock Edge, which makes the south-eastern boundary of the parish. The parish has always … and, despite the proximity of the county's main north-south route through the Stretton gap, fairly isolated and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… paved. 35 There was a chapel of St. Catherine on the south side of the church by 1534. 36 The chancel was much … replace the vestry room with an octagonal one against the south side of the tower. 41 In 1780 repairs included making a … successor, consisting of a chancel, nave with aisles, and south-east chapel, was built of red brick with stone …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Uxbridge Road by the former King's Arms. A highway leading south from the top of Acton hill to Gunnersbury and Brentford … to the town by a cartway along the western edge of South field to Uxbridge Road and by a path which ran from the common to High Street just south of the church and partly survived in 1980. Farther west …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was repeated, with a 14-day wait, for Church field and South field only. 93 Some 25 years before parliamentary … Four open arable fields survived in 1859: Church field, South field, Turnham field, and East field, together with a small common meadow called Townham or Towney mead in the south-east corner of South field. They contained c. 360 a. in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… schools at East Acton in 1862, Acton Green in 1863, and South Acton, All Saints', in 1868, while Turnham Green's … run as public elementary schools for boys, in Acton and South Acton. 47 In 1875 a school board was requested by the … C.E., Strafford Rd. Opened 1868 as Nat. sch. by vicar of South Acton, with 40 I. Financed by sch. pence (2 d.), parl. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the tenements, such as the Tabard and the Cock, along the south side of the road, were inns. 77 The hamlet of East … in 1294, consisted of farmhouses and cottages north and south of common land known as East Acton green by 1474. 78 … Old Oak wells, which were known by 1613. 80 In the extreme south part of the parish a few farmhouses on the northern …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and West Twyford, on the east by Hammersmith, on the south by Chiswick, and on the west by Ealing and Brentford. … c. 4.8 km., 3 although until 1894 a small peninsula jutted south-westward towards Brentford. The parish contained 2,305 … acreage after exchanges with Brentford, which received the south-western peninsula, in 1894 and Willesden in 1895. The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to be put up at the north end of Acton Lane, to protect South field. 54 A temporary board of health, similar to one … Four different wards, North-East, North-West, South-East, and South-West, each with 4 councillors, were created in 1906. 62 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a recreation ground, and in 1920 it bought 18 a. to the south for housing. 4 The moated farmhouse at no. 367 Horn … as a beautiful villa with a balustraded terrace looking south over pleasure grounds. 46 Building began around it in … to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, including 8 a. south of Uxbridge Road awarded at inclosure in 1859 37 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1871, and all three sects had started missions in the south part of the parish by the 1880s. 48 By 1890 they had … 1875-85, included cottage services and open-air mtgs. 95 South Acton Bapt. church formed after split at Church Rd., …