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Eia
Eia or Eye was an early medieval manor in Westminster, Middlesex. It was about one mile west of the Palace of Westminster/Whitehall, about 2 miles west-south-west of the walled City of London, and about half a mile north of the River Thames.
The area of the manor later became the site of Hyde Park (which dates from 1536), the grounds of Buckingham Palace (1703), Belgravia, Park Lane and most parts of Mayfair, Pimlico, and Knightsbridge.
The name Eia is believed to have originated as a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxon word īeg, which means "island", in reference to a rise along a stream/marsh. It may have referred to an area known later as Thorney Island, surrounding Westminster Abbey, and formed by the River Tyburn.
A smaller sub-manor called Ebury or Eybury, containing the hamlet Eye Cross, was originally part of the manor (and are derivations in name). Ebury and a corruption of it, Avery, appear as modern place and street names.
Ebury survives as a place name in: Ebury Street, Belgravia, Ebury Square, Ebury Wharf and Ebury Bridge, which crosses the former Grosvenor Canal. The name Avery, also found in many street names in SW1, is a corruption of Ebury.
The modern hereditary title Baron Ebury, was created in 1857 for Robert Grosvenor, the owner of the estate, of an ancient and prominent gentry family of Cheshire. The names of some of the family's Cheshire estates now feature as street names in the former manor of Ebury, most notably Eaton, Belgrave and Eccleston. One of Grosvenor's business enterprises was the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway, also known as the "Ebury Line", in Hertfordshire. The railway no longer exists and has been converted into the Ebury Way hiking trail.
Ebury Publishing has its offices in Pimlico.
Eia was a rural manor during the early medieval period, on land adjacent to the River Tyburn (a reduced catchment form of which flows beneath the courtyard and south wing of Buckingham Palace), immediately west and north of Thorney Island, on the Thames, which became the site of Westminster Abbey.
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Eia
Eia or Eye was an early medieval manor in Westminster, Middlesex. It was about one mile west of the Palace of Westminster/Whitehall, about 2 miles west-south-west of the walled City of London, and about half a mile north of the River Thames.
The area of the manor later became the site of Hyde Park (which dates from 1536), the grounds of Buckingham Palace (1703), Belgravia, Park Lane and most parts of Mayfair, Pimlico, and Knightsbridge.
The name Eia is believed to have originated as a Latinisation of the Anglo-Saxon word īeg, which means "island", in reference to a rise along a stream/marsh. It may have referred to an area known later as Thorney Island, surrounding Westminster Abbey, and formed by the River Tyburn.
A smaller sub-manor called Ebury or Eybury, containing the hamlet Eye Cross, was originally part of the manor (and are derivations in name). Ebury and a corruption of it, Avery, appear as modern place and street names.
Ebury survives as a place name in: Ebury Street, Belgravia, Ebury Square, Ebury Wharf and Ebury Bridge, which crosses the former Grosvenor Canal. The name Avery, also found in many street names in SW1, is a corruption of Ebury.
The modern hereditary title Baron Ebury, was created in 1857 for Robert Grosvenor, the owner of the estate, of an ancient and prominent gentry family of Cheshire. The names of some of the family's Cheshire estates now feature as street names in the former manor of Ebury, most notably Eaton, Belgrave and Eccleston. One of Grosvenor's business enterprises was the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway, also known as the "Ebury Line", in Hertfordshire. The railway no longer exists and has been converted into the Ebury Way hiking trail.
Ebury Publishing has its offices in Pimlico.
Eia was a rural manor during the early medieval period, on land adjacent to the River Tyburn (a reduced catchment form of which flows beneath the courtyard and south wing of Buckingham Palace), immediately west and north of Thorney Island, on the Thames, which became the site of Westminster Abbey.