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LONDON -- LEASE AND ESTATE MAP OF PRIMROSE HILL. Manuscript indenture between Eton College and Margaret Earle of Beningbrough Hall (1740-1827), for the 20-year lease of 227 acres, 2 roods and 36 perches of ground covering modern-day Primrose Hill just north of Regent's Park, 11 March 1826, in English, on vellum, four folding membranes, approximately 635 x 745mm, WITH A MANUSCRIPT MAP OF PRIMROSE HILL , showing its extent from Regent's Park in the south to Belsize Park in the north, and from the High Road from London to Hampstead (i.e, modern-day Camden High St/Chalk Farm Road) in the east to roughly modern-day Avenue Road in the west, the parcels of land under the terms of the lease hand-coloured in red and green, the slip of land along the eastern edge adjacent to the High Road coloured blue and retained by the Provost and Fellows of Eton, with the names of the owners of neighbouring properties, scale of chains and links mapped at 1:39,600, numbered key of various parcels of land dated as surveyed in 1796, in pen and ink on vellum (occasional faint spotting). UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP SHOWING PRIMROSE HILL JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF THE RAILWAYS . Margaret Earle née Bourchier (1740-1827) was the last of the Bourchier line who had built Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire. She had close relations with Eton College, for her two sons - both killed in the Napoleonic Wars - were educated there, and she left Beningbrough Hall to Rev. William Henry Dawnay (1772-1846), who had been a close friend of her elder son at Eton. This lease takes into account her old age (she was 86 when this document was created) and makes mention of her heirs and will. In the document, she agrees to purchase the lease for £2794-8-6 with a half-yearly rent of £9-15-6 together with 410 gallons of wheat and 864 gallons of malt which are to be provided for the Eton brewery. This indicates the then agricultural nature of the land; just 7 years later in 1833 work would start on the vast railway engineering works cutting through Camden for the London and Birmingham Railway, completing in 1837 with the opening of Euston Station. Eton College's association with the area can still be found in the street names such as Eton College Road, Eton Road, Fellows Road, Provost Road and Eton Avenue.
LONDON -- LEASE AND ESTATE MAP OF PRIMROSE HILL. Manuscript indenture between Eton College and Margaret Earle of Beningbrough Hall (1740-1827), for the 20-year lease of 227 acres, 2 roods and 36 perches of ground covering modern-day Primrose Hill just north of Regent's Park, 11 March 1826, in English, on vellum, four folding membranes, approximately 635 x 745mm, WITH A MANUSCRIPT MAP OF PRIMROSE HILL , showing its extent from Regent's Park in the south to Belsize Park in the north, and from the High Road from London to Hampstead (i.e, modern-day Camden High St/Chalk Farm Road) in the east to roughly modern-day Avenue Road in the west, the parcels of land under the terms of the lease hand-coloured in red and green, the slip of land along the eastern edge adjacent to the High Road coloured blue and retained by the Provost and Fellows of Eton, with the names of the owners of neighbouring properties, scale of chains and links mapped at 1:39,600, numbered key of various parcels of land dated as surveyed in 1796, in pen and ink on vellum (occasional faint spotting). UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP SHOWING PRIMROSE HILL JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF THE RAILWAYS . Margaret Earle née Bourchier (1740-1827) was the last of the Bourchier line who had built Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire. She had close relations with Eton College, for her two sons - both killed in the Napoleonic Wars - were educated there, and she left Beningbrough Hall to Rev. William Henry Dawnay (1772-1846), who had been a close friend of her elder son at Eton. This lease takes into account her old age (she was 86 when this document was created) and makes mention of her heirs and will. In the document, she agrees to purchase the lease for £2794-8-6 with a half-yearly rent of £9-15-6 together with 410 gallons of wheat and 864 gallons of malt which are to be provided for the Eton brewery. This indicates the then agricultural nature of the land; just 7 years later in 1833 work would start on the vast railway engineering works cutting through Camden for the London and Birmingham Railway, completing in 1837 with the opening of Euston Station. Eton College's association with the area can still be found in the street names such as Eton College Road, Eton Road, Fellows Road, Provost Road and Eton Avenue.