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FINSBURY , a central See also:metropolitan See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded N. by See also:Islington, E. by See also:Shoreditch, S. by the See also:city of London and W. by See also:Holborn and St Pancras. Pop. (1901) 101,463. The See also:principal thoroughfares are Pentonville Road, from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Cross See also:east to the See also:Angel, Islington, continuing E. and S. in City Road and S. again to the City in Moorgate See also:Street; See also:Clerkenwell Road and Old Street, See also:crossing the centre from W. to E., King's Cross Road See also:running S.E. into Farringdon Road, and so to the City; St See also:John Street and Road and Goswell Road (the See also:residence of See also:Dickens' Pickwick) running S. from the Angel towards the City; and See also:Rosebery See also:Avenue running S.W. from St John Street into Holborn. The commercial See also:character of the City extends into the See also:southern See also:part of the borough; the residential houses are mostly those of artisans. See also:Local See also:industries include working in See also:precious metals, See also:watch-making, See also:printing and See also:paper-making.
An See also:early See also:form of the name is Vynesbury, but the derivation is not known. The See also:place was supposed by some to take name from an extensive fen, a part of which, commonly known as Moorfields (cf. Moorgate Street), was drained in the 16th See also:century and subsequently laid out as public grounds. It was a frequent resort of See also:Pepys, who mentions its houses of entertainment and the See also:wrestling and other pastimes carried on, also that it furnished a See also:refuge for many of those whose houses were destroyed in the See also:fire of London in 1666. Bookstalls and other booths were numerous at a somewhat later date. The borough includes the See also:parish of Clerkenwell (q.v.), a locality of considerable historic See also:interest, including the former priory of St John, Clerkenwell, of which the gateway and other traces remain. Among several other sites and buildings of See also:historical interest the See also:Charterhouse (q.v.) See also:west of Aldersgate Street, stands first, originally a Carthusian monastery, subsequently a See also:hospital and a school out of which See also:grew the famous public school at See also:Godalming. Bunhill See also:Fields, City Road, was used by the Dissenters as a See also:burial-place from the See also:middle of the 17th century until 1832. Among eminent persons interred here are John See also:Bunyan, See also:Daniel See also:Defoe, Susanna, See also:mother of John and See also:Charles See also:Wesley, and See also:George See also:Fox, founder of the Society of See also:Friends. A neighbouring See also:chapel is intimately associated with the Wesleys, and the See also:house of John Wesley is opened as a museum bearing his name. Many victims of the See also:plague were buried in a See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit neighbouring to these fields, near the junction of Goswell Road and Old Street. To the See also:south of the fields lies the See also:Artillery Ground, the training ground of the See also:Honourable Artillery See also:Company, so occupied since 1641, with See also:barracks and armoury. See also:Sadler's See also:Wells See also:theatre, Rosebery Avenue, dating as a place of entertainment from 1683, preserves the name of a fashionable medicinal See also:spring, See also:music See also:room and theatre, the lastmost notable in its connexion with the names of See also:Joseph See also:Grimaldi the See also:clown and See also:Samuel See also:Phelps. Other institutions are the tech. nical See also:college, Leonard Street, and St See also:Mark's, St See also:Luke's and the Royal See also:chest hospitals. At See also:Mount Pleasant is the parcels See also:department of the See also:general See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and at Clerkenwell See also:Green the sessions house for the See also:county of London (See also:north See also:side of the See also:Thames). Adjacent to Rosebery Avenue are reservoirs of the New See also:River See also:Head. The municipal borough coincides with the east and central divisions of the See also:parliamentary borough of Finsbury, each returning one member. The borough See also:council consists of a See also:mayor, 9 aldermen and 54 councillors. See also:Area, 589.1 acres.
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