In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Earls Court like this:
EARLS-COURT, a chapelry in Kensington parish, Middlesex; in the south-western outskirts of London, immediately S of Kensington and NW of New Brompton. It was constituted in 1858; and it has a post office‡ under Brompton, London SW. Pop., 5, 264. Houses, 707. Earls-Court House was the seat of Sir R. Blackmore. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. J. D. Claxton.
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Earls Court through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Earls Court, in Kensington and Chelsea and Middlesex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23700
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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