Village London: The Story of Greater London, Volym 2Alderman Press, 1983 - 576 sidor Originally published in 1883 under the title Greater London, and first reprinted 100 years later, this work by a Victorian historian and antiquarian records the history of the hamlets, villages and market towns that made up the metropolitan area before the urban sprawl took over. |
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... river flows through a broad marsh , and the walk from the cross lanes to the mill is continued upon a causeway , bordered by osiers , and at a broad sheet of water , into which the river spreads out immediately above the mill , by a ...
... river flows through a broad marsh , and the walk from the cross lanes to the mill is continued upon a causeway , bordered by osiers , and at a broad sheet of water , into which the river spreads out immediately above the mill , by a ...
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... river was known as the Mole in the Anglo - Saxon times ; and very few , if any , of our rivers bear Roman names - in this re- spect unlike our cities . Our poets , very naturally , have chosen the more poetical and symbolical deri ...
... river was known as the Mole in the Anglo - Saxon times ; and very few , if any , of our rivers bear Roman names - in this re- spect unlike our cities . Our poets , very naturally , have chosen the more poetical and symbolical deri ...
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... river , speak of dismissing him from their service . " Here lived Mr. Bolton Corney , the antiquarian critic , from his marriage , in the year 1846 , down to his death , in 1870. He lies buried in the Barnes Cemetery . Here , too ...
... river , speak of dismissing him from their service . " Here lived Mr. Bolton Corney , the antiquarian critic , from his marriage , in the year 1846 , down to his death , in 1870. He lies buried in the Barnes Cemetery . Here , too ...
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Village London: The Story of Greater London, Del 2 Edward Walford Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1985 |
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