| John Stow - 1842 - 252 pages
...paved over, so that no sign thereof remaineth more than the names aforesaid. Oldborne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where...into the river of the Wells, or Turnemill brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other places where the same hath broken... | |
| John Stow - 1842 - 250 pages
...paved over, so that no sign thercof rcmaineth more than the names aforesaid. Oldborne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where...Oldborne bridge, and into the river of the Wells, or Tur,n-mill brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other places where... | |
| 1926 - 538 pages
...p. 46, having described " Langbourne Water, so called of the length thereof," Stow says: Oldbourne. or Hilbourne. was the like water, breaking out about...bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldbourne Bridge, and into the river of the Wells, or Turnmill Brook. This bourn was likewise long... | |
| 1898 - 664 pages
...edition of the ' Survey,' the last published in his lifetime, he writes :— "Oldborne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the ban do stand, and it ran downe the whole streete til Oldborne bridge, and into the Riuer of the Wels,... | |
| William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 pages
...bridge over the Fleet. The origin of Holborn is thus mentioned by Stow : — " Oldborne, or Hilborn, breaking out about the place where now the Bars do stand, and run dowu the old street to Oldborn-bridge, into the river of the Wells, or Turnemill Brook. This bourne... | |
| Henry Trimen - 1869 - 482 pages
...7), Oldborne or Hilborne was a small rivulet which broke out ' about the place where the bars do now stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne Bridge and into the River of Wells or Turnemill Brook.' But in Domesday Book (i. 127 a), ' Iloleburne ' is applied to the Fleet... | |
| John Stow - 1876 - 256 pages
...paved over, so that no sign thereof remaineth more than the names aforesaid. Oldborne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the bare do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne bridge, and into the river of the Wells,... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1881 - 604 pages
...the Fleet, called " Oldbourne Bridge." Stow thus describes this locality : — "Old bome or Hilbome, breaking out about the place where now the Bars do...Oldborne Bridge, and into the river of the Wells or Tumemill Brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other places where... | |
| Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 716 pages
...through that thoroughfare. See Stanley, Memoirs of Westminster Abbey, p. 6. Otdhorne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where...bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldbome bridge. — Stow, 4'urwiv, p. 7. Howell spells it Holdboum (Londinopolis, 328) and Oldbourne... | |
| Abram Smythe Palmer - 1882 - 734 pages
...Abbey, p. 6. Oldkornt, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where now thf bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne bridge. — Stoic, Surcav, p. 7. Howell spells it Jloldbovm polis, 328) and Oldbowne (329). HOLLAND WOODS,... | |
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