Look up rookery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor...

to the existence of rookery-like colonies in the pterosaur Pterodaustro. The term rookery was also borrowed as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century...

London, back-slum kind walk tonight". Slum began to be used to describe bad housing soon after and was used as alternative expression for rookeries. In 1850...

rookery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rookery is a colony of breeding birds and some marine mammals. Rookery may also refer to: Rookery (slum)...

Howard Stew, a medieval term for a brothel Stew, another name for a rookery (slum) Stew Leonard's, a family-owned American retail chain that includes...

border of the "rookery" of St Giles, a slum, and became the location for new accommodation, which reformers planned would replace the slums. Parnell House...

for the rich, but during the following century this became a slum as part of the rookery of St Giles. The eastern stretch had poorer inhabitants from...

was the owner of the infamous rookery (slum) in the parish of St Giles, London, generally considered one of the worst slums not only in London but in the...

beings could reach". Reformer Henry Mayhew described the slum in 1860 in A Visit to the Rookery of St Giles and its Neighbourhood: The parish of St. Giles...

mainly of the highest density and poorest quality; the area became a rookery of slums. The 1550 charter's exemption from the city's control of the neighbouring...