Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROOK-HOUSE, or Kingshold

BROOK-HOUSE, or Kingshold, an old seat of the Earls of Warwick, and of the Hunstons, afterwards a lunatic asylum, in Hackney parish, Middlesex; adjacent to Homerton, 3½ miles NE of St. Paul's, London.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an old seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Hackney Vest/CP/AP       Middlesex AncC       Warwickshire AncC
Place names: BROOK HOUSE     |     BROOK HOUSE OR KINGSHOLD     |     KINGSHOLD

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