Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTHEND

NORTHEND, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry, in Fulham parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies N of Fulham, W of Hyde-park-corner, immediately S by E of Hammersmith; and has a postal wall-box under London S W, and ready access to railway stations. The chapelrywas constituted in 1835. Pop., 3, 702. Houses, 504. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patrons, the Rev. S. by ers and MajorH. by ers. The church stands on the highroad from Hammersmith to Kensington, and was built in 1814. There are national schools. The painter Cypriani, the musician Dr. Crotch, and the novelist Richardson were residents.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fulham Vest/AP/CP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Northend

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