A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CANONBURY, an ancient manor in Islington, 2 miles N of St. Paul's, London. It belonged, at the Conquest, to Ralph de Berners; was given by him to the priory of St. Bartholomew; went, at the dissolution, to Lord Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex; and passed to successively the Earl of Warwick, Sir John Spencer, and Lord Compton, ancestor of the Marquis of Northampton. Canonbury House on it was built about 1362, as a mansion of the priors of St. Bartholomew; and Canonbury Tower, 17 feet square and 58 feet high, was add ed to the house either by Bolton the last prior, or by Sir John Spencer. Newberry, the bookseller, Smart, the poet, Chambers, the cyclopædist, and Oliver Goldsmith had apartments in the tower; and the last is said to have written here his "Vicar of Wakefield." Much of the manor is now built upon; and two suites of buildings on it are called Canonbury-square and Canonbury-grove.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an ancient manor" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
| Administrative units: | London AncC |
| Place: | Canonbury |
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