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. …
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 …