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Aspley Guise is a village and civil parish in the west of Central Bedfordshire, England. In addition to the village of Aspley Guise itself, the civil parish also includes part of the town of Woburn Sands , the rest of which is in the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire .
Aspley House is a Grade II* listed 17th-century country house near Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire, England. [1] [2] References This page was last edited on 5 February ...
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The house was designed for Sarah's grandson and Jonathan's son, Jesse Ashbridge, by prominent local architect, Joseph Sheard, who many years later would serve as Mayor of Toronto. The cottage was designed in the Regency style , built with red brick laid in a Flemish bond , with a hipped roof and treillage veranda . [ 4 ]
In the 1840s, Toronto's waterfront was a combination of wharves and squatter buildings. The area where The Esplanade is today was then part of the harbour, south of the shoreline. The Esplanade, a 100 feet (30 m)-wide road, was proposed, just south of Front Street, with new water lots made from cribbing and filling of the shore to the south.
Rexdale was named after local real estate developer Rex Heslop, who purchased farmland in the area in 1955 for a cost of $110,000, and installed water mains, streets and sewers, as well as houses that listed for sale at either $9,000 or $10,000. The homes sold well, and soon 330 families were living in the development. In 1956, Heslop opened ...
For administrative purposes, Toronto is divided into four districts: Etobicoke-York, North York, Scarborough and Toronto-East York. Map of Toronto including the former municipalities that existed before 1998. The Old Toronto district is, by far, the most populous and densest part of the city.
In the 1950s and 1960s, local architects such as James A. Murray, Jerome Markson, Brook and Banz, and Seligman & Dick built many modern houses in the Bridle Path. Many of these have now been replaced with larger houses. [2] [3] The Bridle Path has been home to prominent Toronto business people, celebrities, doctors, and engineers.