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References.

  1. The first ST. GILES 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.

A View
of part of the Northwest Suburbs
of London,
as they appeared, anno 1570.
Including the whole of the parish of
ST. Giles in the Fields
and its immediate Neighbourhood, its
Parochial Churches,
erected at different periods &c.

THE PARISH OF St. Giles in the Fields, LONDON.

“The part of the North West Suburbs of London, since called Saint Giles’s, was about the time of the Norman Conquest an un-built tract of country, or but thinly scattered with habitations.—The parish derived its name if not its origin from the ancient Hospital for Lepers, which was built on the site of the present church by MATILDA queen of King Henry I. and dedicated to Saint Giles: before which time there had only been a small Chapel or Oratory on the spot.—It is described in old records, as abounding with gardens and dwellings in the flourishing times of Saint Giles’s Hospital but declined in population and buildings after the suppression of that establishment, and remained but an inconsiderable village till the end of the reign of Elizabeth, after which period it was rapidly built on, and became distinguished for the number and rank of its inhabitants. The great increase of St. Giles’s Parish occasioned the separation of St. George’s Bloomsbury Parish from it anno 1734.—The above view (which is partly supplied by the great Plan of London by Ralph Aggas, and partly from authorities furnished by parochial documents) was taken anno 1570.”

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