Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARROW-WEALD

HARROW-WEALD, a hamlet and a chapelry in Harrow-on-the-Hill parish, Middlesex. The hamlet lies ¾ of a mile N of Harrow r. station, and 2 N of Harrow; and has a post office under Stanmore, London, NW. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop. in 1861, 1, 119. Houses, 229. The property in it is not much divided. Weald Park is the seat of R. Smith, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, the Vicar of Harrow. The church is good; and there is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Harrow on the Hill AP/CP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Harrow Weald

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