Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Egerton House Hotel is an AA five star double-townhouse hotel located at 17-19 Egerton Terrace off Brompton Road in the Knightsbridge area of London. [1] It is part of the Red Carnation Hotels group. The hotel consists of two adjoining Victorian townhouses constructed from red-brick, which were originally built in 1843.
Arms of Egerton: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable [1] Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, PC (c. 1540 – 15 March 1617), known as Lord Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616, was an English nobleman, judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.
The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views , such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde ).
The street runs roughly south-west to north-east, off Brompton Road. Egerton Crescent, runs roughly off it, and Egerton Terrace crosses it. Historially for more than 800 years the area formed part of Brompton, parochially in the Church of England this is recognised by the name of its parish Holy Trinity Brompton.
20 May–16 July – 18 sessions of discussion between England and Spain at Somerset House in London agree a peace treaty to end the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). 20 June – The Form of Apology and Satisfaction is read out in the House of Commons to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a ...
Thomas Egerton (1749 – 1814), who became 7th Baronet in 1756, Baron Grey de Wilton in 1784, as well as Viscount Grey de Wilton and Earl of Wilton in 1801. Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater The Bridgewater Chapel at St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Little Gaddesden, where many Egerton family members are buried
A similar engraving of London by Wenceslas Hollar in 1647 depicts a similar view, on six plates, Long View of London from Bankside, based on drawings done by Hollar in London in the early 1640s, from the tower of St Mary Overie. Hollar's panorama has a single viewpoint, and shows the River Thames curving sinuously from left to right past the ...
In December 2013, it was named the "most expensive street in Britain", for the second successive year, with an average house price of £7.4 million. [2] In December 2015, it was the second most expensive street in England, with an average property price of £7,550,000, according to research from Lloyds Bank, based on data from HM Land Registry. [3]