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Survey of London
… to London architecture. 33 The present buildings took the place of a structure varying in height from one to three … 1657); (ii) "Surveyor Embree to see to the repair of the place of the guards in Scotland Yard and the Tilt Yard." ( … succeeding T. Ripley. Including Spencer House, St. James's Place. Vardy was associated with William Robinson as clerk of …
Old and New London
… the average distance preserved is thirty feet, and in no place is there less than eighteen feet of sound London clay … a construction, that it admits of a view of the whole place; and so slender are the pillars, that the roof seems … in our description of the London Docks. The kiln is the place where useless or damaged goods that have not paid duty …
Old and New London
… palace, for centuries a prison, and now a barrack, a show-place, a mere fossil of the sterner ageswas commenced, in its … opens into a secret hole built in the dividing wall. This place has neither air nor light, and is known as Walter … brought many of the old North country families to this place of durance. The Tower of London. (From a View published …
Old and New London
… of the Constable; an apothecary, who holds his place by warrant from the Constable; the gentleman-gaoler, … VI. brought some really evil men to the same burying-place. One by one they came, after days of greatness and of … Restoration, Okey, the regicide, was buried in the same place. The weak Duke of Monmouth lies beneath the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is divided from the town and liberty by the river, near a place called Pollbay; in which yoke there is both a hamlet … the inhabitants of a genteel rank in life. Near the market place, is the house of the late Dr. Isaac Rutton, a physician … it. At the east end of the town is a seat, called Brooke-place, formerly possessed by the family of Woodward, who were …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Csar, in his first expedition, landed somewhere near this place, after having been repulsed by the Britons, in his … on the sand-downs between Deal and Sandwich, is the place where Csar secured his shattered fleet; and at this … he most probably landed at or not far from the same place he had done the year before; so that in whatever …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… a prospect as any in this county. FOLKESTONE was a place of note in the time of the Romans, and afterwards in … but the church of Canterbury was not in possession of this place at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in 1080, … priory of Folkestone from the bail of the castle to the place where it afterwards continued. His son William dying in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… marshes, on the southern bank of the river Stour, a lonely place, of little or no thoroughfare. It is but small and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and dispirited, that they had thoughts of abandoning the place, and building themselves a town elsewhere; but king … and was yn price. Finally to cownt fro Westhythe to the place wher the substan of the towne ys now ys ii good myles … and otherwise much improved. The court-hall and market place are near the middle of it, the latter was built by …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… come up much nearer to it, for there is at this time a place in Dengemarsh, not more than a mile and an half distant … yt standeth as an arme, a foreland or a nesse. Ther is a place beyond Lydde wher as a great numbre of holme trees … in length, and a quarter of a mile in breath, whence the place is now called the Holmstone. They thrive exceedingly …