A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GRAYS INN LANE, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in St. Pancras parish and district, Middlesex. The chapelries are St. Bartholomew and St. Jude; they lie around Grays Inn Lane or Grays Inn Road, in London, about 1½ mile NW of St. Paul's; and the former was constituted in 1860, the latter, subsequently. Pop. of St. B., 5, 318. Houses, 605. Pop. of St. J., 8, 427. Houses, 889. The livings are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value of St. B., £300; of St. J., £300. * Patrons of St. B., Trustees; of St. J., alternately the Crown and the Bishop. St. Jude's church was built in 1864, at a cost of £6, 000; is a brick structure, of nave, aisles, and deep chancel; and has a picturesque but foreinn looking facade, and a lofty tower.—The sub-district is bounded, on the N, by the Ne Road; on the W, by a line in front of the E of Burton Crescent; on other sides, by the parishes of Clerkenwell, St. Giles, and St. George Bloomsbury. Acres, 155. Pop., 27, 808. Houses, 2, 887.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "two chapelries, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | St Pancras Vest/CP/AP St Pancras RegD/PLPar Middlesex AncC |
| Place: | Grays Inn Road |
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