HISTORIC PROPERTY
NETS SUM OF £1,000,000 AT A LONDON SALE More than 78 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Earl's Court Sta-' tion. London, has changed hands, a sum of approximately £1.000.000 being involved in the transactionThe deal comprises 1150 houses. 115 shops and nearly 200 blocks of flats .garages, warehouses and other premises. including Court Square, Nevern Square. \ l'biibeacli Gardens and Loxhain Gardens and a long stretch of buildings 01/ both sides of Earl's Court road an 1 West Cromwell road- - Originally, the land was part /o' the heritage of the de Veres. Earls of Oxford, from the Norman Conquest down to Elizabeth’s reign, except foi a short period after the Wars of the Roses. The court or manor house built by the family. gave Earl’s Court its name. In the reign of .Tames I. the estate was acquired by Sir Walter Cope as part of the manor of Earl’s Court.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3997, 11 April 1933, Page 3
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