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Old and New London
… "illustrated" works were less common than now. In Lord North's ministry, in 1770, he was Secretary for Foreign … of office; and he was the first Premier who did so. Lord North, as Premier, had his chambers here, occupying rooms on … Storey's Gate, on the west; and from Downing Street on the north to Charles Street on the south. The buildings, which …
Magna Britannia
… populous town in Cumberland, and the most populous in the North of England except Newcastle and York, has no parochial …
Survey of London
… who founded the chapel in Tottenham Court Road, runs north and south and now reaches from Windmill Street to … The numbers of the houses now proceed from south to north, with the odd numbers on the west and the even on the … Church, which is separately noticed below (p. 48). North of this came Nos. 119129 of which No. 119 is wrecked, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, S. division of Northumberland, 3 miles (N.) from North Shields; containing 749 inhabitants. The township … 1 r. 38 p., nearly all arable land, and is bounded on the north by the navigable river Yare: the scenery along the … containing 466 inhabitants. The parish is situated in the north-eastern part of the county, bordering upon Devonshire, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rock in the south, and the porphyritic hills in the north, which compose the range of Cheviot. The whole district … also a limestone-quarry of moderate quality, and, to the north, whinstone in abundance. Coal of an inferior kind … last century: an heiress of this family married Richard North, Esq., a descendant of the Norths of Docker. The parish …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… extends for about 6 miles from the river Granta in the north to the Essex boundary in the south. It consists of the … by the Cam or Granta. Two branches of the Icknield Way run north-eastwards through the hundred. The northern branch, … and Middle Chalk, 8 and the ground rises steadily from the north, where parts of Sawston consist of peaty fen, to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 173 inhabitants, and comprising 540 acres of land. It lies north of Quarrington; adjoining the grounds of Shincliffe, in … the parish of Prees, Whitchurch division of the hundred of North Bradford, Northern division of Salop, 3 miles (N. by …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… that on one occasion the express train started for the north with only one passenger. But the G t Northern commenced … the roof had been. Mr Anderson, (the great Wizard of the North as he calls himself) after a long run upwards of 120 … for a network of sewers with outfalls at Beckton on the north bank, and Plunstead on the south bank. However, the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… There has just been opened for traffic a new branch of the North Eastern Railway (from Durham to Bishop Auckland) with 5 … preached both times. Very rainy. Wind very strong from the north east. 12. Finished beetles, planed 12 blocks etc. Dull … find that it was the large goods station of the London and North Western Railway Co at Camden Town, belonging to Messrs …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and I hope we may see no more of it this winter. The North Western and Great Northern Railways are mad again. They … tolerably lately) and the central tower as well as the north one I admire very much, but the interior of the choir … morning to the early express from Birmingham on the North Western. Several carriages were smashed though no lives …