June 2014 archive

Middlesex: Hornsey with Highgate – Religion

CHURCHES The living of Hornsey was assessed in 1291 and had a priest in 1302, when it was a rectory. Except during the Interregnum, when Sir John Wollaston was patron, it has been in the gift of the bishop of London from at least 1321. There were chapels at Muswell from c. 1190 and Highgate …

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Middlesex: Finchley

Finchley, whose shape has been compared to a leg of mutton with its narrow end to the north at Whetstone, lay between Hertfordshire on the north and north-west, Hendon on the west, Hendon and Hampstead on the south, and Hornsey and Friern Barnet on the east. It contained 3,384 a. in 1871 and 3,475 a. …

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Middlesex: Friern Barnet – other estates

In 1627 the demesne of Whetstone was said to consist of the site of the manor-house, six houses, a dovecot, six gardens, 40 a. of land, 100 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, and 200 a. woodland. There were 627 a. in 1799, covering nearly half the parish and mainly south of the modern Oakleigh Road …

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Middlesex: Friern Barnet – Manors

The manor of Whetstone or Frierm Barnet was held in 1336 by the knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. It was probably among the lands between Barnet and London taken from the abbey of St. Albans by William I, who may have given it to the bishop of London. Lands in Barnet …

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Middlesex: Friern Barnet

Friern Barnet, home of Colney Hatch asylum, is a small parish 7 miles north of London and, with Finchley, protrudes into Hertfordshire. Its maximum length along the main north-north-west axis is 3 miles and nowhere is it more than 1½ mile wide. The extent of the civil parish was 1,304 a. in 1871. In 1891 …

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Middlesex: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey, Highgate

A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate By A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, M A Hicks and R B Pugh/ Edited by T F T Baker and C R Elrington. The volume covers the 3 outer parishes of the Finsbury division of Ossulstone hundred, separating the …

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