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Old and New London
… Bermondsey The abbey CHAPTER X. BERMONDSEY ( continued).THE ABBEY, &c. … bell has ceased to toll: The long-ribb'd aisles are burst and shrunk, The holy shrine to ruin sunk, Departed is the … FactoryBlue Anchor RoadGalley Wall. Readers of English history need scarcely be told how that King Henry VIII., in …
Old and New London
… Tiberim long cubat hic." Horace, "Satires." Derivation of the Name of BermondseyGeneral Aspect of the LocalityDuke … in Tooley StreetDeath of Braidwood, the FiremanThe "Lion and Key"The Borough CompterThe "Ship and Shovel"Carter Lane … of a Dutch expression. In short, persons familiar with the history of the place may everywhere see that Beormund's Ea …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Berrick Salome BERRICK SALOME The small and relatively scattered village of Berrick Salome occupies … the largest holdings were all let to tenants. 5 ECONOMIC HISTORY Until inclosure in 1863 Berrick shared an open-field …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bersted BERSTED The old parish of Bersted, originally part of Pagham, … 2,228 acres when Bognor was constituted a separate parish; and under the West Sussex Review Order of 1933 part of … Com. Rep. xii (6), 200, 202. Burrell, on the evidence of a survey in his own possession: Add. MS. 5689, fol. 51. Recov. …
A Dictionary of London
… identified. Bethleem, Bethlem See Old Bethlehem Hospital, and Old Bethlem (Street). . Bethlehem Church Yard See Bethlem … See Old Bethlehem Hospital. . Bethlehem Hospital Chapel The little chapell of Beelem wythout Bisshops Gate (Arnold's … Camomile Street. The documents relating to the early history of the house, in which it is described as "the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Berwick Bassett village lies 12 km. SSW. of Swindon. 1 The long and narrow parish, 563 ha. (1,391 a.), lies east-west and a … of Winterbourne Monkton with Berwick Bassett. 7 ECONOMIC HISTORY In the Middle Ages Berwick Bassett almost certainly …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, a port, borough, market-town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and … 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. The name of this town, which Leland supposes to have been … the place. It is noted for several events connected with history, among which was the meeting, in 1291, of the twelve …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Besford - Beverley Besford BESFORD, a township, in the parish of Shawbury, union of Wem, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of … Andrew) BESFORD ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union, and Upper division of the hundred, of Pershore, Pershore and …
Survey of London
… (Imperial War Museum) CHAPTER 9: BETHLEM HOSPITAL, NOW THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, IN LAMBETH ROAD Bethlem Hospital, … Museum, though much truncated, is the largest remaining of the buildings originally erected in St. George's Fields. … from mental disorders. Bethlem Hospital The Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London took the priory and …
Old and New London
… Bethnal Green CHAPTER XVIII. BETHNAL GREEN. Origin of the NameThe Ballad of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal … Green MuseumSir Richard Wallace's CollectionNichol Street and its PopulationThe French Hospital in Bethnal Green and … he deposited his gains. This old house, called in the Survey of 1703 Bethnal Green House, was in reality built in …