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A sketch map of some lost rivers "London Before the Houses", map of pre-urban London from 1884. The position of a mouth of the Effra in the 13th century.. The subterranean or underground rivers of London are or were the direct or indirect tributaries of the upper estuary of the Thames (the Tideway) that were built over during the growth of the metropolis of London.
Statue of St Margaret Ward in St Etheldreda's Church, London. Margaret Ward (c. 1550-30 August 1588), called the "pearl of Tyburn", [1] was an English saint and martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison. She was canonised in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales .
Oxford Street. / 51.51528°N 0.14194°W / 51.51528; -0.14194. Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to the north, with Soho and Mayfair to its ...
Tyburn, near Marble Arch, was the site of ' The King's Gallows' from 1196 to 1783. It was thus the one-way destination for six centuries for every kind of criminal. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the famous Triple Gallows was set up. Tyburn Gallows has many names during its history: The Elms, the Elms near Tyburne, Tyburn Tree, the Deadly ...
The earliest written mention of the Tyburn dates back to around 785 AD. From the place where the Tyburn crossed Oxford Street, the Great Conduit was built in 1236, to supply water through conduits made of elm trunks from the Tyburn to Cheapside in the City. Only a small stream was left to carry on southwards and this perhaps explains the lack ...
Coordinates: 51°30′47″N 0°09′32″W. The arch with The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place and the trees of Bryanston Square beyond, parts of the British Regency-architecture Portman Estate. The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble -faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 as ...
Biography. William Carter was born in London in 1548, the son of John Carter, a draper, and Agnes, his wife. He was apprenticed to John Cawood, queen's printer, on Candlemas Day, 1563, for ten years, and afterwards acted as secretary to Nicholas Harpsfield, last Catholic archdeacon of Canterbury, [1] while Harpsfield was a prisoner in Fleet ...
