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Hoxton in Middlesex County England History and GeographyHOXTON, a district parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, ½ a mile (N.E.) from London. The population is returned with the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. This place, formerly a hamlet in the parish of St. Leonard, has been greatly enlarged within the last few years, and having become an extensive and populous district, was constituted a parish by act of parliament in 1830. It is divided into Hoxton Old Town, and Hoxton New Town; the former containing many ancient and spacious houses, some of which have fallen into decay, and others have been converted into private lunatic asylums; and the latter, consisting of numerous well-formed streets and neat ranges of modern buildings, occasionally interspersed with pleasant cottages. The town is well paved, lighted with gas, and amply supplied with water. The principal manufactories are for machinery of various kinds, pins, vinegar, &c.: there are an extensive saw-mill, and numerous lime and coal wharfs on the banks of the Regent's canal, which passes through the northern part of the parish. Hoxton is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests held at Whitechapel, for the recovery of debts under 40s. The living is a vicarage not in charge, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Dean of St. Paul's. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and containing one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five sittings, of which one thousand are free, was erected, in 1826, by grant from the parliamentary commissioners, at an expense of £13,000: it is a handsome edifice of light brick, with a cornice and ornaments of stone, and a steeple consisting of successive stages of campanile turrets crowned with a dome. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Methodists of the New Connexion. The ancient cemetery of the Jews is in this parish. A spacious National school is supported by subscription, in which about five hundred children are instructed; and an infant school, in which are two hundred children, was established in 1829. Lady Viscountess Lumley founded almshouses, and endowed them for three aged persons of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, and three of the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate: they were rebuilt in 1822. The Haberdashers' almshouses were founded, in 1692, by Robert Aske, who endowed them with estates in this parish and at Ashford in Kent, for the residence and support of twenty poor members of that company, and for the clothing, maintenance, and education of twenty boys, sons of freemen of the company: the old buildings were taken down in 1825, and the present handsome structure erected on the site. The premises occupy three sides of a quadrangular area, in the centre of which is a statue of the founder: the centre comprises a handsome chapel, with a portico of the Grecian Doric order, on each side of which are apartments for the chaplain and schoolmaster, school-room and dormitory for the boys, and domestic offices; the wings, in front of which is a colonnade, are appropriated to the aged men, who have each a separate house, and are in other respects comfortably provided for. William Fuller, Esq., in 1795, founded and endowed almshouses for twelve aged women, who have a weekly allowance of money, and a chaldron of coal annually; and also other almshouses ¦ in Gloucester-street, for sixteen aged women, who receive a similar allowance Almshouses near Gloucester-terrace were founded in 1749, by Mrs. Mary Westby, who endowed them for ten aged women. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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