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Grim's Dyke (sometimes called Graeme's Dyke until late 1891) is a house and estate in Harrow Weald, in northwest London, England. The house was built from 1870 to 1872 by Richard Norman Shaw for painter Frederick Goodall and named after the nearby prehistoric earthwork known as Grim's Ditch .
Grim's Ditch or Grim's Dyke or Grimes Dike is a linear earthwork in the London Borough of Harrow, in the historic county of Middlesex, and lends its name to the gentle escarpment it crowns, marking Hertfordshire's border.
Grim's Ditch, Grim's Dyke (also Grimsdyke or Grimes Dike in derivative names) or Grim's Bank is a name shared by a number of prehistoric bank and ditch linear earthworks across England. They are of different dates and may have had different functions.
Jul 18, 2016 · 6. The sale of the contents. After Lady Gilbert’s death, the contents of Grim’s Dyke sold for more than Gilbert paid for the house (£4,600). 7. Refilling the lake. The one-and-a-half-acre lake was drained and refilled each year, to keep the water clear. After Gilbert’s death, Lady Gilbert had the lake largely drained. 8.
Apr 1, 2019 · Grim’s Dyke, then, is one of the most historically active places to be found in Harrow. Whether it’s as the site of the life (and death) of famous writer William Gilbert, or as the site of the doomed Roman resistance in the early years of the first century, Grim’s Dyke has a vast and expansive history – so expansive, in fact, that not ...
DESCRIPTION. LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING. Grim's Dyke is situated to the north-west of Harrow Weald. The 11ha site lies to the north of the Old Redding road and Harrow Weald Common, which forms its southern boundary. To the east the grounds adjoin a further part of the Common; to the north is farmland.
Apr 23, 2015 · GRIM’S DYKE HARROW WEALD THE RESIDENCE OF MR W S GILBERT. – R NORMAN SHAW RA ARCHITECT. "Grim’s Dyke." Architecture 2 (1897) 355-368. There stretches out, on the northern borders of Middlesex, remote from the suburban part of London, although only twelve miles removed from the stress and turmoil of its streets, as fair and fertile an ...
