May 2014 archive

Middlesex: Tottenham – Growth

Growth Before 1850. An Anglo-Saxon settlement, otherwise unrecorded, is indicated by the reference to Tottenham, `Totta’s ham’, in Domesday Book. Presumably it bordered the Roman road, the medieval Tottenham street, along which most of the population was concentrated until the 19th century. Eastward lay rich pastures on the marshes by the river Lea, while to …

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Middlesex: Hendon, Kingsbury, Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham

By A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Eileen P Scarff and G C Tyack/ Edited by T F T Baker and R B Pugh. The volume covers 9 parishes in north and north-east Middlesex, completing Gore hundred and embracing the whole of Edmonton hundred. Victoria County History – Middlesex. Originally published by Victoria County History, …

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