London Topographical Record (1906)

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138

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213 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES ON SALWAY'S PLAN OF THE ROAD FROM HYDE PARK CORNER TO COUNTER'S BRIDGE. By Colonel W. F. Prideaux, C.S.I. IN the First Annual Report of the Organizing Committee of the London Topographical Society, which was reprinted in the first volume of this "Record," pp. 71-81, there will be found a clear and succinct description of the elaborate plan, in fifteen large sheets, of the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Counter's Bridge?now represented by Russell Road Railway Bridge?which was made for the Kensington Turnpike Trust by their Surveyor, Joseph Sal way, in the year 1811. A facsimile reproduction of this beautiful plan, in thirty sections, has now been completed by the Society and is in the hands of the members. It is unnecessary to repeat the information which has already been given in the " Record " with reference to the measurements and general appearance of the plan, while to compile a detailed description of the district traversed by this highway would be tantamount to writing the history of Knights- bridge, King's Gore, and Kensington. But it may be possible within reasonable limits to give a slight sketch of the principal topographical and historical features which lend value and importance to the plan, the more especially that within the last hundred years many of these features have disappeared, and landmarks which were encountered daily by our grandfathers in their journeys along one of the chief metropolitan thoroughfares have vanished so completely that it is sometimes difficult to identify their sites. Even in our own day the great alterations which have beeneffected along the route,1 the erection of palatial flats in the place of the old country houses that formed the homes of many who were most distinguished in the land, the widening of the road that has taken p...

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