Searching for "KENTISH TOWN"

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    Place name County Entry Source
    ASHFORD Kent town. There is also a neat cemetery, with two chapels. A great stock market is held on the first and third Tuesdays of every mouth, and fairs, on 17 May, 9 Sept., and 12,13, and 24 Oct. There are two banking offices and two chief inns. Fine linen is manufactured; and a weekly newspaper is published. The town is one of the polling-places for the county; and is under the jurisdiction of the county magistrates. Pop., 5,522. Houses, 1,049. Wallis, the mathematician, Glover, the antiquary, and Milles, the herald, were natives. The "headstrong Kentish Imperial
    BRENTWOOD Essex town hall was built in 1864, and is in the Italian style, with Corinthian portico. The county lunatic asylum is an edifice in the Tudor style. The grammar school was founded in 1557, by Sir Anthony Browne; and has an endowed income of £1,532. The old church is early English; was built in 1221; and is now used for a national school. The new church is a Gothic structure, with a handsome square tower; and was built in 1835. The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1861; is formed of Kentish Imperial
    COLCHESTER Essex Kentish rag, with Caen stone dressings; consists of a nave 88 feet long and 51 wide, with galleries; and has a tower and spire 125 feet high. The Quakers' meeting-house was formerly a church said to have been founded by the mother of Constantine the Great, and rebuilt in 1076 by Eudo. Schools and Charities. —The schools within the borough, in 1851, were 13 public day schools, with 1, 361 scholars; 43 private day schools, with 964 s.; 22 Sunday schools, with 2, 142 s.; and 2 evening schools for adults, with 16 s. The grammar school Imperial
    DOVER Kent DOVER , a town and a district in Kent. The town stands on the coast, under chalk cliffs, at the mouth Imperial
    FLEET RIVER Middlesex Kentish-town and St. Pancras; runs under Fleet-market, and across the lower end of Fleet-street, to the Thames Imperial
    GOSPEL-OAK-FIELDS London GOSPEL-OAK-FIELDS , a metropolitan suburb, with a r. station, in Kentish-Town: which see. Imperial
    HIGHGATE Middlesex Kentish-Town and its Holloway environs to the City and the West End. The name Highgate is said to have Imperial
    ISLINGTON Middlesex ISLINGTON , a metropolitan suburb, a parish, and a district in Middlesex. The suburb stands on the underground rivers Fleet and Imperial
    KENT Kent Kentish men. The registration county gives off two parishes to Sussex districts, and nine parishes and most of another to London districts; comprises, 1, 013, 838 acres; and is divided into the districts of Bromley, Dartford, Gravesend, North Aylesford, Hoo, Medway, Malling, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge, Maidstone, Hollingbourn, Cranbrook, Tenterden, West Ashford, East Ashford, Bridge, Canterbury, Blean, Faversham, Milton, Sheppey, Thanet, Eastry, Dover, Elham, and Romney-Marsh. Four of the boroughs, Folkestone, Gravesend, Margate, and Tenterden, though municipal, are not parliamentary; and two towns Imperial
    Kentish Town Middlesex Kentish Town , dist. and ry. sta., St Pancras par., Middlesex, in N. of London, pop. 44,184; the sta. is 1½ mile Bartholomew
    KENTISH-TOWN Middlesex KENTISH-TOWN , a metropolitan suburb, a parochial chapelry, and a sub-district in St. Pancras parish and district, Middlesex. The suburb Imperial
    LONDON London
    London
    Kentish-Town by the Junction-road, and traverses Camden-Town, Agar-Town, and Somers-Town. The terminus extends 340 feet Imperial
    MAIDSTONE Kent town and vale. The town hall stands in High-street, near the centre of the town; and is a large plain building. The assize court and the county jail stand on the Rochester-road, on a plot of 14 acres; form together one fine structure, of Kentish Imperial
    New Kentish Town Middlesex New Kentish Town , eccl. dist., St Pancras par., Middlesex, pop. 6397. Bartholomew
    PANCRAS (St.) Middlesex Town, Kentish-Town, Somers-Town, Kings-Cross, Grays-Inn-lane, part of Regents-Park, and part of Highgate; contains the termini Imperial
    PECKHAM Surrey Town and Peckham-Rye; and contains the Nunhead cemetery, the Royal Naval school, built in 1835, for 200 sons of officers, and the Licensed Victuallers asylum, built in 1827, at a cost of £25,000, having accommodation for 126 inmates, and standing on a plot of 6 acres. Nell Gwynne occupied a house whichstood near the canal basin; and the Duke of York, brother of Charles II., had a house in High-street. Peckham House is an asylum for pauper lunatics of London city, and, at the census of 1861, had 280 inmates; but does not stand within Peckham Imperial
    PETER (St.) Kent Town hill is the highest ground in Thanet. Water-works were constructed in 1859. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £540.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church ranges from Norman to later English; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with W tower; and contains three brasses, monuments to the Dewkners and others, and atablet to T. Sheridan, Esq. The tower serves as a sea-mark, and shows two fissures caused by an earthquakein 1580; and the churchyard contains the grave of Richard Joy, the Kentish Imperial
    ROMFORD Essex town hall, a corn exchange, a court-house, three churches, three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a mechanics' institute, an endowed school with £65 a year, five other public schools, a workhouse, alms-houses with £423 a year, and other charities £72. St. Edward's church was rebuilt in 1850; is in the decorated English style, of Kentish Imperial
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