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This allowed the growing Southampton to expand, leading to the urbanisation of the Bitterne Manor area. [3] Cobden Bridge from Bitterne Manor. James Stuart Hall purchased Bitterne Manor in August 1818. On his death in 1822, the Manor was willed to his wife Jesse (Hunter) Stuart Hall and, on her death in 1847, to her sister Jane (Hunter) Eastmont.
Bitterne is an eastern suburb and ward of Southampton, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.. Bitterne derives its name not from the similarly named bird, the bittern, but probably from the bend in the River Itchen; the Old English words byht and ærn together mean "house near a bend" or possibly bita ærn; "house of horse bits", [2] [3] either most likely a reference to Bitterne ...
Grey Gardens is a 14-room [1] house at 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.It was the residence of the Beale family from 1924 to 1979, including mother and daughter Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale from 1952 to 1977.
Bitterne Park is a suburb and Electoral Ward of Southampton, England, on the Eastern bank of the River Itchen, built on sloping parkland which once formed part of Bitterne Manor. Bitterne Park Ward includes the suburbs of Bitterne Park, Bitterne Manor , Midanbury and Townhill Park , and had a population of 14,026 at the 2011 Census . [ 1 ]
West End is a parish in Hampshire in the borough of Eastleigh, five miles (8.0 km) east of the city of Southampton.The village of West End is small and generally classed as an area in the outer suburbs or rural urban fringe of the borough of Eastleigh because of the surrounding woodland and countryside, including Telegraph Woods and Itchen Valley Country Park.
In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known as "Rothchildshire". In the 20th century many of these properties were sold off with ...
The modern bridge from the eastern (Bitterne Manor) bank. The iron bridge was replaced in 1954 with a third bridge, made of prestressed concrete, and it is this bridge that still stands today. [1] [5] The third Northam Bridge was the first major prestressed concrete road bridge to be built in the UK [1] and cost £600,000.
The station itself is located a mile west of Bitterne village, although original plans for the railway line would have seen the railway pass right through the centre of the village. The line was originally single-track between St Denys and Fareham , with Bitterne acting as a "passing loop", where trains travelling in opposite directions could ...