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Wychwood Park was founded as an artists' colony in the late nineteenth century, as a private project by painter Marmaduke Matthews and businessman Alexander Jardine. [2] The area was then still a rural region on the edge of the city, and Matthews planned out a picturesque community that he named after Wychwood forest in Oxfordshire, England.
Looking north over Route 150 from Shaw Hill Road in Kensington, February 2013. The road runs from Kensington south to the Massachusetts border.. The southern terminus of NH 150 is at the Massachusetts state line in South Hampton, where the road continues south as Massachusetts Route 150 in the town of Amesbury.
The area west of Jane Street is known as Brookhaven. The City of Toronto's demographic page refers to that area as Brookhaven-Amesbury, but omits the area north of Lawrence Avenue, and includes the largely industrial area between Keele Street and the railway. This area had a 2006 population of 17,325. [1]
Amesbury (/ ˈ eɪ m z b ər i /) is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is known for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is within the parish. The town is claimed to be the oldest occupied settlement in Great Britain, having been first settled around 8820 BC. [ 2 ]
Cholderton, or more properly West Cholderton, is a village and civil parish in the Bourne Valley of Wiltshire, England. The village is about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Amesbury . It is on the A338 , about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the A303 trunk road and 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Salisbury .
The Kensington Town House is located near the geographic center of the town, on the west side of Amesbury Road at its junction with Osgood Road. It is set in a small cluster of civic buildings that includes two Greek Revival churches. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade ...
In the post-war years many traditional neighbourhood names faded as postal district numbers were in common use and many older neighbourhoods declined. The name Riverdale was one that faded as the once middle class area became much poorer. A 1964 Toronto Star series labelled the entire area north of Gerrard as The Danforth. A real estate agent ...
A Roman villa stood near the Avon, on a site now south of Netheravon House. [2] Domesday Book recorded three landholdings with a total of 132 households. [3]The Dukes of Beaufort had a large sporting estate at Netheravon in the early 18th century, which continued to be managed by their successors, the Hicks Beach family, until the end of the 19th century.