NORTH WEST SUBURBS OF LONDON.

REFERENCES.

1. The first St. GILES'S CHURCH.

2. Remains of the Walls, antiently enclosing the Hospital precincts.

3. Site of the Gallows and afterwards of the Pound.

4. Way to Uxbridge, now OXFORD St.

5. ELDE STRATE, since called HOG-LANE.

6. LE LANE, now MONMOUTH St.

7. Site of the SEVEN DIALS, formerly called COCK and PYE FIELDS.

8. ELM CLOSE, since called LONG ACRE.

9. Site of LINCOLNS INN FIELDS formerly called FICKETS FIELDS.

THE PARISH OF St. Giles

The part of the North West Suburbs of London, since called Saint Giles, was about the time of habitations. — The parish derived its name, if not its origin, from the ancient Hospital for and dedicated to Saint Giles; before which time there had been only a small Chapel, and dwellings in the flourishing times of Saint Giles's Hospital, but declined in popu-lar inconsiderable village till the end of the reign of Elizabeth, after which period it was The great increase of St. Giles's Parish occasioned the separation of St. Georges by the great Plan of London by Ralph Aggas, and partly from authorities fur-

in the Fields, LONDON.

the Norman Conquest an un-built tract of country, or but thinly scattered with Lepers, which was built on the site of the present church, by MATILDA, queen of King Henry I. or Oritory on the Spot. — It is described in old records, as abounding with gardeners' lation and buildings after the suppression of that establishment, and remained but an rapidly built on, and became distinguished for the number and rank of its inhabitants. Bloomsbury Parish from it anno 1734. — The above view, which is partly supplied -mished by parochial documents, was taken anno 1570.

London, Published Jan. 1818, by The Seal of the Ancient Hospital of St Giles, Boydell & Co., go, Cheapside.

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