A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KINGSBURY, a parish in Hendon district, Middlesex; on the river Brent, 2 miles NE of Sudbury r. station, and 8 NW of St. Paul's, London. It contains the hamlet of Kingsbury-Green, and part of the village of Hyde, -the latter of which has a post office under London NW; and it has itself a receiving office under Hyde. Acres, 1, 765. Real property, £5, 715. Pop. in 1851, 606; in 1861, 509. Houses, 91. The property is much subdivided. The manor was a residence of Saxon kings, and was known at Domesday as Chingesburie. Goldsmith wrote his " Animated Nature '' at a farm near Hyde. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £90. PatronS, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. The church is old, small, and good; includes some Roman bricks in its walls; is said to stand on the site of a Roman camp; and contains brasses of 1520.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Kingsbury CP/AP Hendon RegD/PLU Middlesex AncC |
| Place names: | CHINGESBURIE | KINGSBURY |
| Place: | Kingsbury |
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