Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . sJPN. WALKS THROUGH ISLINGTON. CHAPTER I. GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW. ETYMOLOGY—MENTION OF ISLINGTON IN DOMESDAY-BOOK—PRO-BABLE STATE IN THE TIME OF THE CONQUEROR—AND IN THAT OF RICHARD I., &C. ANCIENT ROADS AND WAYS MANORIAL DIVISIONS AND HISTORY—NOTICES OF THE PLACE IN HISTORICAL AND OTHER WORKS EMINENT PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE PARISH—INCREASE OF HOUSES AND PO
Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . sJPN. WALKS THROUGH ISLINGTON. CHAPTER I. GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW. ETYMOLOGY—MENTION OF ISLINGTON IN DOMESDAY-BOOK—PRO-BABLE STATE IN THE TIME OF THE CONQUEROR—AND IN THAT OF RICHARD I., &C. ANCIENT ROADS AND WAYS MANORIAL DIVISIONS AND HISTORY—NOTICES OF THE PLACE IN HISTORICAL AND OTHER WORKS EMINENT PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE PARISH—INCREASE OF HOUSES AND POPULATION MODERN EX-TENT AND BOUNDARIES—SOIL AND CLIMATE — PAROCHIALGOVERNMENT. The origin of the existing appellation of the Parishwhich we have undertaken to perambulate, is lost inthe distance of that remote period, when some Britishsettlers—twere hard to say whether of the Celtic orthe Belgic stock—having reared a few huts for theirabode, and surrounded them with the palisade andditch constituting the fortification of the times, theirdwelling-place acquired the name of , or Don, it is, indeed, known, was the commonterm for a town and a fortress; and, at the rude erawe are contemplating, a due regard t
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