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Hace 2 días · Adjoining the palace was a Riding House, which, when the palace was demolished, was allowed to stand for some years, and was converted into a storehouse for some of the public records. It was long known as Carlton Ride. Its antiquarian contents were subsequently transferred to the great central building in Fetter Lane.
Hace 3 días · Henstridge village spreads north almost from the Dorset border called Townsend, recorded in the 14th century, (fn. 19) and beyond the junction with the Sherborne–Shaftesbury road at Henstridge Ash, recorded in 1686; (fn. 20) and also both west and east along lanes leading to the marsh. Further north Whitechurch, possibly named from a ...
Hace 4 días · The name of the parish, originally that of an Iron Age earthwork on Rodborough common, is recorded from the 8th century; (fn. 3) the derivation of the first part of the name is uncertain, (fn. 4) but it may derive from a clearing in the woodland which anciently covered much of Minchinhampton and Rodborough commons. (fn. 5) The parish developed ...
Hace 4 días · Book: The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-1832 edited by: David Fisher Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521193146, 6512pp, Price: £425.00
Hace 5 días · The old Mansion House belonged to an old hospital of the town, and which the common council had thoughts of altering or rebuilding in 1683. In 1691, the present house was begun to be built on the scite of the old one. (fn. 1) It cost the corporation £6000, besides the necessary furniture. It is a handsome structure of brick, with an area or ...
Hace 4 días · On the demolition of Bedford House, the adjoining lands were laid out for building purposes, and Russell and Bedford Squares were erected about the year 1804, and were named after the Russells, Earls and Dukes of Bedford. For some time previously—as we have already shown in our account of Bloomsbury Square, Great Ormond Street, and other ...
Hace 1 día · The Church of Holy Trinity, Carlisle Lane. The church of Holy Trinity, consecrated on 27th June, 1839, was erected in Carlisle Street (now Carlisle Lane) on part of the kitchen garden of Lambeth Palace, the vicarage and schools being built on a further part of the garden at a later date. (fn. 180) The church was designed by Edward Blore, who ...
