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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  CROUCH END LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	HORNSEY UD/MB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "CROUCH END":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARDEE		ARDEE , an incorporated market and post-town, and a parish, in the barony of ARDEE, county of LOUTH, and province	Lewis:Ireland
  BRIGHTON		Crouch, the actress. St. Peter's church, at the end of the Steyne, was built in 1830, after a design	Imperial
  CASTLE-DERMOT		end by two lofty lancet-shaped windows, and at the east end by a window which, though now greatly mutilated, appears to have been of elegant design; on the south side, and attached to the church, is a low square tower with a circular staircase turret; and on the north side, opening into the church by a lofty pointed arch, was the chapel of the Blessed Virgin, distinguished for the elegance and richness of its windows, of which the principal was a very magnificent window of four lights, with a large cinque-foiled circle in the crown of the arch	Lewis:Ireland
  Crouch End		Crouch End , sta. in N. of London, on Alexandra Palace branch of Great Northern By.	Bartholomew
  CROUCH-END		CROUCH-END , a chapelry in Hornsey parish, Middlesex; 5 miles N by W of St. Paul's, London. It has a post	Imperial
  DROGHEDA		DROGHEDA , a seaport, borough, and market-town, and a county of itself, locally in the county of LOUTH, and province	Lewis:Ireland
  Edinburgh		end, are such as to enable Edinburgh to compete with any other city as a seat of learning. If we add to these its tranquil air and its social atmosphere, as well as its museums, libraries, and schools of arts, there are few places better fitted for the cultivation of those studies which are best prosecuted away from the hum of busy labour, and the hurry and bustle of merely commercial life. ' Residence in Edinburgh,' remarks Alexander Smith, ' is an education in itself. Of all British cities - Weimar-like in its intellectual and æsthetic leanings, Florence-like	Groome
  ESSEX		Crouch river; and Shoeburyness, at the mouth of the Thames. Shoals and sands lie off some parts; and numerous islands, situated within the general coast-line, and divided by only narrow belts of water from the interior tracts, diversify others. The chief islands are Horsey, near the Naze; Mersea, at the mouth of Blackwater river; Wallasea and Foulness, at the mouth of the Crouch river; and Canvey, on the Thames. The sea-board is low, flat, and partly marshy; has suffered much devastation and fracture by encroachments of the sea; and, except to a trifling extent at Harwich, South-end	Imperial
  FOULNESS		Crouch; terminates there in a point or headland, which is Foulness-proper; is separated, on the W, from Wallasea island, by a narrow strait, -and on the SW, from smaller islands, by other narrow straits; is bounded, on the SE and E, by the North sea; and takes its name from being a haunt of myriads of wild fowl. Its central part lies 4 miles ESE of Burnham, and 9 NE of South-end	Imperial
  HORNSEY		Crouch-End, Fortis-Green, Muswell-Hill, StroudGreen, and part of Highgate. Acres, 2, 895. Real property, £58, 599. Pop. in 1 851, 7, 135; in 1861, 1 1, 082. Houses	Imperial
  KILDARE		KILDARE (County of), an inland county of the province of Leinster, bounded on the east by the counties of Dublin	Lewis:Ireland
  LONDON		LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MOUNT-PLEASANT		with fine views, near Crouch-End and the Great Northern railway, 5½ miles N of St. Paul's, London.	Imperial
  Stirling		end of the Esplanade, the outer wall being protected by a ditch with a drawbridge. The inner ditch and entrance are commanded by the Overport Battery, while the bomb-proof structure on the left, known as Queen Anne's Battery, with the adjacent unfinished works, was erected in Queen Anne's reign-whence the name -when the Castle was enlarged. The Queen's initials and the date, ` A. R. 1794, ' may be seen on the second arch. To the N are the gun sheds, and adjoining them on the NE is the Spur or French or Ten-gun Battery, built	Groome

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