London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
HANOVER _square_, so called in compliment to the present royal family,
has Oxford road on the north; Swallow street in the east; Conduit
street on the south; and New Bond street on the west. The area of the
square contains about two acres of ground, in the middle of which is a
garden inclosed with rails; the houses are new built in the modern
taste; they make a grand appearance, and are inhabited by noblemen and
gentlemen of distinguished rank.
The author of the Review of the public buildings remarks, that the
upper end of Great George street towards Hanover square is laid out so
considerably wider than at the other end, that it quite reverses the
perspective, and shews the end of the vista broader than the
beginning; which was calculated to give a noble view of this square
from its entrance, and a better prospect down the street from the
other side, and both way the effects answer the intention. He adds,
that the view down George street, from the upper side of the square,
is one of the most entertaining in this whole city: the sides of the
square, the area in the middle, the breaks of building that form the
entrance of the vista, the vista itself, but above all, the beautiful
projection of the portico of St. George’s church, are all
circumstances that unite in beauty, and render the scene perfect.
HANOVER _street_, 1. Hanover square. 2. Long Acre. 3. Rotherhith Wall.
HANOVER _stairs_, Hanover street, Rotherhith.
HANOVER _yard_, St. Giles’s.
HANSON’S _alley_, St. Giles’s Broad street.†
HARCOURT’S _buildings_, Inner Temple.†
HARDING’S _alley_, Petty France, Westminster.†
HARE _alley_, Shoreditch.*
HARE _court_, 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. Hare street, Spitalfields.* 3.
Inner Temple.* 4. Little Knightrider’s street.* 5. Petticoat lane.* 6.
Upper Ground.*
HARE COURT _buildings_, Inner Temple.*
HAREFIELD, a village in Middlesex, near the river Coln, between
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge, about twenty miles from London. _Harefield
Place_ is the seat of Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart. Here also George
Cooke, Esq; the present member for the county of Middlesex, has a
handsome seat and park.
HARE _marsh_, Hare street.*
HARE _street_, Brick lane, Spitalfields.*
HARE _yard_, Hoxton.*
HARLEY _street_, as does most of the other streets near it, took its
name from the late Earl of Oxford, the ground landlord, who left it to
his lady. This is a noble new street, extending northward from
Cavendish square where Sir Richard Littleton’s house is at the corner.
HARP _alley_, 1. Grub street.* 2. Little Knightrider’s street.* 3.
Saffron hill.* 4. Shoe lane.*
HARP _court_, Little Knightrider’s street.*
HARP _lane_, Tower street.*
HARP _yard_, Black horse yard, Fleet street.*
HARPER’S _alley_, Fore street, Lambeth.†
HARPER’S _walk_, Fore street, Lambeth.†
HARRIE’S _gun wharf_, Millbank.†
HARRISON’S _court_, Brook street.†
HARRIS’S _court_, Ratcliff Highway.†
HARRIS’S _rents_, Rosemary lane.†
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