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Survey of London
… notable for its fine architectural treatment. The east and south sides were designed by the Adam brothers and exhibit … of Nos. 4, 9 and 10. The leases for the sites on the south side ran for the same period, but are dated January, … provided for 13 houses numbered 20 to 32 from north to south. George Spencer Smith had six, William Bigg and Richard …
Survey of London
… Fitzroy Street LIIFITZROY STREET (formerly Russell Place (south), Upper Fitzroy Street (north)) Fitzroy Street is the … to the parapet. The west side is similar to the east. The south end has been rebuilt, but Nos. 5 to 11 (odd numbers) … with the exception of the damaged building at the south end (No. 26) which is a combined shop and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… that the internal width was not altered when the North and South Aisles and the present arcades were built in the 13th … stairs were built in the 15th century; the North and South Porches were added probably about the same time, and … 14th-century window, and a plain 15th-century doorway. The South Aisle (9 ft. wide) has, in the S. wall, a 15th-century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… summit of a high ridge of land, rising abruptly from the south-western side of the valley through which the river Ver … north by Lancaster and Morecambe bays, and on the east and south by the river Wyre, has risen within the last few years … Esq. The town is laid out for streets radiating to the south-east and south-west from its northern boundary, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… the jambs and sill of an original single-light window. The South Transept (10 ft. wide) has a partly restored …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the extraparochial Crown demesne of the Forest on the south and west. 46 It contained the abbey, which Earl Roger … a distance by the LittledeanMitcheldean road and on the south-east by a route linking Blackmore's Hale, a settlement … on the north-east and the extraparochial Forest on the south and west. It was very irregular in shape, lying in two …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Fleckney is a parish of 1,255 a., about eight miles south-east of Leicester and about seven miles north of Market … The Grand Union Canal forms the parish boundary on the south-east, and the bridle road from Arnesby to Kibworth on the south. The oldest part of the village lies near the church, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Normanton, Woodcotes, Stokam, Sterthorp, Est Drayton, South Clifton, and North Clifton, and lands, viz. fourteen …
A Dictionary of London
… 1703. In Strype's maps shown extending from Ludgate Hill south to the Thames on the western boundary of Farringdon … Fleet Market, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elmes, 1831), south of Fleet Lane. First mention : Custody "gaiolae de … I 17th and 18th centuries this was a long court extending south to Fleet Street, but when the southern end of Fetter …
Old and New London
… carver, Grinling Gibbons. "Dick's Coffee House" (No. 8, south) was kept in George II.'s time by a Mrs. Yarrow and her … its dinner at "Dick's." The "Rainbow Tavern" (No. 15, south) was the second coffee-house started in London. Four … to detect the lurking snake among them. At the south-west corner of Chancery Lane (No. 193) once stood an …