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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain Author:Daniel Defoe 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: LETTER III. CONTAINING A Description of Part of Middle- Sb x 3 and of the whole County of HertFord. S I R, |HE Villages round London partake of the I... more »nfluence of London, as I have taken Notice in the Counties of Ejftx, fyntt and Surry. Hackney and Brtmley are the firft Villages which begin the County of Middlefex, Eaft : for "Bow, as reckon'd to Stepney, is a Part of the great Mafs. This Town of Hackney is of large Extent, containing no lefs than Twelve Hamlets, or feparate Villages, tho' fome of them now join ; viz. Church-Jireet, Clapton, Homerton, Mare-Jireet, Wyck-houfe, I Well-jlreet, Grwe-Jlreet, Cambridge-heath, Sbacklcwellt Dal/ion, Kingjland, Nevjington. All thefc, tho' fome of them are very large Villages, make up but one Pariflj, and are, within a few Years, fo increafed in Buildings, and fo well in- H 6 habited, habited, that there is no Companion to be made between their prefentand former State ; every feparate Hamlet being increafed, and fome of them more than trebly bigger than formerly they were. Hackney is fo remarkable for the Retreat of wealthy Citizens, that there are, at this time, near an Hundred Coaches kept in it. Newington, Tottenham, Edmonton, and Enfieldr ftand all in a Line North from the City. The In- creafe of Buildings is fo great in them all, that they feem, to a Traveler, to be one continued Street; efpecially 'Tottenham and Edmonton ; and in them all, the new Buildings fo far exceed the old, efpecially in their Value, and the Figure of the Inhabitants, that the Fafhion of the Town is quite altered. At Tottenham we fee the Remains of an antient Building called the Crofs, from which the Town takes the Name of Higb-Crofs. Here is a fmall, but- pleafant, Seat of the Earl of Coltrain.,. ., ' .-. , Higligate ...« less