First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. The Cobley family owned it from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the buildings demolished and the land developed. the picture source is a local history report from 1927.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cobley Farm / Fallow Farm
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Dickens at Cobley Farm
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-...
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Hilary Peters
Peters took our a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Pr...
1 memorial
Quaker Gardens
Also called Bunhill Fields Burial Ground and so easy to confuse with the non-conformist Bunhill Fields Burial Ground which is on the other side of Bunhill Row. From London Gardens Online: “Quaker ...
2 memorials
Harold Ainsworth Peto
Born in Suffolk, son of Sir Samuel.
1 memorial
Kensington Gardens
Royal Parks say: "William III bought what was originally part of Hyde Park in 1689. An asthma sufferer, the king found the location quiet and the air salubrious and so he commissioned Sir Christop...
2 memorials
Dovehouse Green
Here we summarise the splendid London Gardens Online : Land given by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 to serve the Chelsea Parish Church of St Luke's and became the King's Road Burial Ground. 1882 a mortu...
2 memorials
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Lloyds TSB Group
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
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1 memorial
Angus McGill
Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of th...
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