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A History of the County of Middlesex
… associated with the Austin Friars, who were granted land and a spring at Cambridge Heath in 1394, 69 and a … In the 1680s it was used as a school. 77 When the Poor's Land was set up in the 1690s the trustees were to meet at the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 16 Houses south of the lane were mortgaged with demesne land in 1629. 17 The row housed weavers, brickmakers, a … 19 houses in Collier's Row in 1663. 20 About that time land north of Collier's Lane was leased to brickmakers and … 1703 when the estate, then called Slaughter's (Sclater's) land, contained a few isolated buildings at the northwest …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… village. The parish contains about six thousand acres of land, all inclosed, the commons having been divided pursuant … comprises by computation about 2500 acres, chiefly arable land, of a light soil, and producing barley and oats, with a … in 1728, bequeathed 100 to be invested in the purchase of land, out of the rent of which 2. 8. are appropriated to the …
Survey of London
… 13th March in that year the commissioners sold the surplus land, containing 24 feet in length and 70 feet in depth, to …
Survey of London
… Three possibilities were identified: one was Mrs Wade's land north of the East India Dock Road, the second was on the … to the west. The West India Dock Company favoured the land owned by Mrs Wade, because of its relative cheapness. … was a plot of over two acres which lay to the west of the land sold by the Paillets, extending from the rear of the …
Survey of London
… the East India Dock Company's decision in 1807 to sell its land there for building. The company's holding was the largest of the three parcels of land in the area bounded by the High Street, Bow Lane, East … premises in the High Street. The East India Dock Company's land This was the largest of the three ownerships, occupying …
Survey of London
… provided an incentive to development, forming a block of land bounded by those roads on the north and west, on the … appreciably greater than that obtained from keeping the land in use as pasture and garden. 2 There was also a … later followed by Church Pathand the East India Company's land on which its almshouses and Poplar Chapel stood. The …
Survey of London
… Mountague Place was set out following the purchase of that land by William Newby in 1791; the northern part dates from … of 1914 William Newby bought a house and three acres of land from the trustees of William Thorns in 1791 for 300. 144 … by the Church Commissioners when the remainder of the land acquired by Newby in 1791 was purchased as part of the …
Survey of London
… Woodstock Terrace Woodstock Terrace was built on the land of Edward Wood Stock, a solicitor, in the mid1850s. The … Road; it became Woodstock Terrace in 1937 (fig. 61). The land on the east side was divided into building plots, … some months. 39 Nos 911, 22 and 2425 were built upon his land. Walter Rean of Preston's Road, gentleman, acquired five …