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    St. Martin's Le Grand looking south: St. Martin's Le Grand is a former liberty within the City of London, and is the name of a street north of Newgate...
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    The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters...
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    end, to St. Martin's Le Grand in the west. Gresham Street was created in 1845 by widening and amalgamating Cateaton Street, Maiden Lane, St. Anne's Lane...
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    St Martin le Grand, York is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in York. The church dates from the 11th century. The tower was built...
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    had branches in every major sorting office in the UK and in St Martin's Le Grand GPO, near St Paul's Cathedral. Letters targeted for interception by the...
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  • St. Martin's Le Grand (which extends northward as Aldersgate Street), Noble Street and Foster Lane. The ward took in the liberty of St. Martin's Le Grand...
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    the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how London could best be divided for the purposes...
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    which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank Junction, where it becomes...
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  • include: St Martin's Church, Aalst St Martin's Church, Arlon Saint Martin's Church (Ghent) [nl]; see Georges-Jacques Aelsters Saint Martin's Church (Kortrijk)...
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    sorting office was located in the cramped basement of GPO East in St. Martin's Le Grand; Baines was actively seeking to remove it, preferably to a spacious...
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    General Post Office on nearby St. Martin's Le Grand. The name Post Office was possibly chosen instead of the more obvious St. Paul's to differentiate it...
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    the City of London that ran between Edward Street (Hall Lane) and St Martin's Le Grand. On part of its site stands Postman's Park. The street may once have...
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    City of London that runs between King Edward Street in the west and St Martin's Le Grand in the east. Although dating back to at least 1542, no original buildings...
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    incandescent lamps to provide street lighting from Holborn Circus to St. Martin's Le Grand, which was later expanded to 3,000 lamps. The power station also...
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    special case occupied Parliament's attention in 1815. The Liberty of St Martin's Le Grand was situated in the City of London, but was part of the borough of...
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    line from Holborn to Gresham Street via the General Post Office on St Martin's le Grand was under construction in 1865. By the time of the 1866 financial...
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    roads. The route of the A1 in London runs from the northern end of St. Martin's Le Grand in the City to Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, then travels on the...
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    0978 Little Britain is a street in the City of London running from St. Martin's Le Grand in the east to West Smithfield in the west. It is situated in the...
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    this congregation moved initially to the Bull and Mouth-Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, and then to Paul's Alley in the Barbican in the autumn of 1778...
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  • December 12, 2010. Bacon, E. D. (1899). "Ocean penny postage". St. Martin's-le-grand (April): 164ff. "Dictionary of Australian Biography: Sir John Henniker...
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    initially operated from a room in the General Post Office building on St. Martin's Le Grand in the City of London. By 1864 it had outgrown the space available...
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    "market". The following roads run north to south across the ward: St. Martin's Le Grand, Foster Lane, Gutter Lane, Wood Street, Milk Street, King Street...
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  • mark on 3 May 1768, giving an address of 3 Bull and Mount Street in St Martin's Le Grand. She appears to have been active for only a year after the death...
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    London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral. Bordered by Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, King Edward Street, and the site...
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    of the wall and the Manor of Finsbury). The Soke was granted to St. Martin's Le Grand by William the Conqueror in 1068, in exchange for prayers for the...
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    tracked her down and escorted her to sanctuary at the Church of St Martin's le Grand. In order to win the final consent of his brother George to the marriage...
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  • London as well as being a member of the papal chapel and the dean of St Martin le Grand. Wingham was elected to the see of London about 29 June 1259, confirmed...
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    Thomas Gresham (category People educated at St Paul's School, London)
    1597; Gresham Street in the City of London running east from St Martin's Le Grand near St Paul's Cathedral, past the Guildhall and the Bank of England...
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    demolished in 1887 or 1888 when new post office buildings were built in St Martin's Le Grand. The original name of the inn was the Boulogne Mouth in reference...
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    England as a diplomat. His church career in England, being a dean of St. Martin's Le Grand in London from 1262. His influence at court in 1262 is evidenced...
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