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A History of the County of Middlesex
… just north of East Acton green to the north-west corner, near Twyford. Two bridges carried Uxbridge Road in 1826. 30 … of the Grand Junction canal from Bull's Bridge junction, near Southall, to Paddington, was opened in 1801. 37 A bridge … with through tickets for tram and train. Birch Grove, near the Ealing boundary, was the limit for a 1 d. journey …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… gardens existed in the southern part of the parish, mostly near Acton Green. 25 In 1880 there were 92 a. of market … before 1877, when the Goldsmiths' Company planned building near by. Another windmill stood on the site of the Elms or … in the early 18th century. 30 A third mill may have stood near Mill Hill Park, which was known as Windmill hill c. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… advanced teaching in new buildings in Woodlands Avenue, near the former county school, and to create two separate … 1828 when it was at Acton House, West Acton. 41 Her school near the Rectory apparently had c. 40 boys in 1832. 42 It had … places by 1924, and 600 by 1936. Playing fields of 6 a. near West Acton station had been acquired by 1936. 58 After …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 Although the name Acton, meaning 'oak … mentioned in 1551 as a copyhold tenement with 30 a. near Bollo Lane and the Brentford high road, probably lay … countess of Leicester spent the summers c. 1700 in a house near the church. 83 The parish had 158 communicants in 1548. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… drained by two main streams. 7 Bollo brook rises near Fordhook and flows south-eastward to Acton Green, … Stamford brook's western branch, apparently rising near Acton Farm west of Horn Lane, flows south to meet another tributary, from Springfield near the Ealing boundary, at a point north of the Steyne and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… game. 41 The premises consisted chiefly of Acton ponds, near the western boundary of the parish north of Uxbridge … house in Acton and 128 a., and later also granted land near Bollo bridge meadow and 20 a. of woodland. In 1239 the … 86 who in 1802 owned the recently built HEATHFIELD LODGE, near Bollo bridge, and East Lodge 87 and West Lodge. 88 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… (Worcs.) in 1662, moved to Acton in 1663 and lived near the parish church. 37 He observed that the Independent … 66 Methodists. Wes. Meths. acquired large ho. in Steyne near junction with High St. 1817, 67 reg. rooms for worship … teacher's ho., built 1857 E. side Gunnersbury Lane, near High St., 70 of Kentish ragstone in Gothic style. Chapel …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… allegedly because of the opening of the burial ground near by in 1863. 76 The pump, commemorated by a plaque in … supplied by the L. & N.W.R. from a deep well in the chalk near Watford. 89 From 1903 Acton was supplied by the … and electricity plant, but it was only after rubbish piled near the cemetery had become offensive that a destructor was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in East Acton and the King's Arms by the turnpike gate near East field. By 1801 the number had dropped to 9 97 but … in 1908. 4 A short-lived successor to the wells was opened near by on the northern part of Old Oak common in 1870. Known …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… 104 lbs. 1 l. 3 s. 0 d. the tabernacle in the choir near the altar, sold to the suffragan of Wells 9 s. 0 d. 2 …