The Family Topographer Being a Compendious Account of the Antient And Present S
The Family Topographer Being a Compendious Account of the Antient And Present S
Sammuel Tymms
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The site was origi- nally fens and marshes at the foot of hills covered witJt forests. The opposite bank was a complete morass ; and Finsbury was a fen communicating with the Essex marshes. The Metropolis, in, length, is nearly eight miles, its breadth three, and its circumference twenty-six. Province, Canterbury. Diocese, London. The City of Westminster was created a bishopric by Hen. VIII. With jurisdiction over all Middlesex, except Fulham, a peculiar of the see of London ; but it was dissol...ved by Edw. VI. ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS. British Period : Mr. Owen, the editor of the Welch Archaeology, derives the name of London from Llyn a lake, and din a town, the town by the lake. Others bring it from the Celtic Lhongdun, "a town of ships. " A British Trackway is considered to have gone from Old Street, St. Luke's, by the City Arms public house in the City Road, across the Holloway back road, near to the Adam and Eve, and by Hagbush Lane to the foot of Highgate Hill. There were houses and buildings in Lon- don when the Romans first came to our Island ; and it was the capital of the Trinobantes, who were emigrants from Belgium.
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