WILLESDEN. [MIDDLESEX.] on the North Side
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• DIRECTORY.] 865 WILLESDEN. [MIDDLESEX.] on the north side. The register dates f'rom the year 1569. having been for many centuries attacbed to that office. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £350, with residence, Here is Christ Church, to which an ecclesiastical district in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's,and held has been assigned, taken out of Willesden and Kilburn, by the Rev. Joseph Crane Wharton, M• .A., of Worcester including the liamlet of MAPKSBURY, which also gives its College, Oxford. The Independents have a chapel at name to a prebendal stall in St. Paul's Cathedral : the Queenstown. Here is a Jews' cemetery, comprising 12 building is cruciform, in the Early English style: the cost, acres, with priest's house, and mortuary chapel, built of £9,000, was expended by the present rector : it is of stone, Kentish rag. There is a Working Men's Mutual Im and has a chancel, tower, beautiful spire, south porch, good provement Society, and a Working Men's Association for organ, handsome chancel window, and other memorial supplying labourers with cottage gardens: also a Horticul windows; also ten clerestory windows. The living is a tural Society, which holds annual shows of fruit, flowers rectory: the tithes of the district are attached to the living; and vegetables. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. it is in the patronage of, and held by, the Rev. William The chief crops are pasturage and hay; some wheat is Charles Williams, n.n., of Trinity College, Cambridge, grown also. 'J'be parish comprises an area of 4,302 acres; and F.R.A.S. gross estimated rental, £103,520; rateable value, £88,150; Parish Clerk, H. M. Salmon, Church end. and the population in I861 was 3,879, and in I871, I5,869, of which 10,399 are in Kilburn, 2,138 in Kensal Green, and PosT & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFicE, Savings 1,094 in Brondesbury district parishes. Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, Church Neasdon is a hamlet, 1 mile north-west; the Midland end. John Salmon, receiver and South Western Junction Railway passes through here, PosT OFFICE, Harlesden Green.-Henry Salmon, receiver and a station is erected, but not yet opened for traffic. The INsURANCE AGENTS :- reservoir of the Regent's Park Canal extends to this Royal, E. P. Fitch, Harlesden hamlet; the reservoir is upwards of 8 miles in circuit, and Westminster Fire ~ Westminster ~ General Life, J. covers 365 acres. Thomas, Harlesden SHKRRICK GREEN, DoLLIS HILL and WILLKSDEN Jews' Cemetery, Henry Van Ryn. superintendent GREEN are hamlets in the neighbourhood. Police Station, Harlesden, John Ellams, sergeant Harlesden (or Holsden)is I mile south and4~ miles from PUBLIC OFFICERS:- London: the Willesden junction station of the London and Collector of Rates, James Haylor, Chichester rd.Kilburn North Western and North London Railways is here: most of Churchwm·dens, Messrs. George Howard & J obn Kershaw theNorth Western trains stop here, and there is easy access to Registrar of Births ~ Deaths,J ohn Davis, Church End the City, as well as to Kensington and thence to the South Relieving Officer, Edward Robert Judd, Pinner road, of England by the North London line. There is a chapel Sudbury, Harrow of ease, All Souls': it is of corrugated iron, and a school- Superintendent of Burial Board, John Salmon room is attached to the building. There is a handsome Turnco~k, Charles Searl Wesleyan chapel. built in 1869-70. There i~ a Police Sta- ScHOOLS:- tion, and a wharf on the Grand Junction Canal, which National (boys & girls), Edward Parfitt, master; Mrs. passes through this part of Willesden parish. Here is a Eliza Parfitt, mistress Summer Garden, called the "People's Garden," similar to Infant, Mrs. Mary Gomm, mistress those in Germany, tor music and dancing. National, Harlesden, Mr.:~. Emma Hands, mistress STONEBRIDGE PARK is 1 mile north: it consists of RAILWAY STATIONS:- handsome villas. Willesden Junction, John Beer, station master Brondesbury, about 2 miles south, is a hamlet of Kensal Green (North London Railway), William Grist- great antiquity, although only lately begun to be built upon, wood, station master and it gives its name to the prebendal stall of Brondesbury CARRIER.--.J ohn Twyford, Willesden Green, to all parts of in St. Paul's Cathedral, the lands comprised in the hamlet , London, daily Willesden. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Fisher John, Church road Latimer Edmund,2 Park villas, Stone Atty Mrs. Hughenden lodge, Church rd Foulsham Charles, Mapesbury house bridge park Baker Henry, 11 The Avenue Francis John, 8 Cavendish road, Bron- Leadbitter Frank, 7 Cavendish road, Baylis Charles, The Rookery desbury Brondesbury Beart Victor Oswin,Clevelands, Caven- Freeman Frederick, 2 Graham cottage Lendon Henry, 2 1\fyrtle villas dish road, Brondesbury Freese John William, 6 St. Mary's rd Ling Arthur, Church road Beauchamp Lady, Rose cottage Fripp John Tande, Fortune villa, St. Littlestone Rev. Jhn. Sml.M .A.Hill side Beghin Louis, Jersey villa, N icolli road l\Iary's road Lovedge Edward, 5 St. Mary's road Belemore Waiter, Fortune gate Frost Edmund, Norman villa, Stone- Lovell Mrs. Churc:h road Binney Mrs. Mary, Hill side bridge park Lucking Wm. John, Pheasant lodge Bishop Edwin, I Park villas, Stone- Grant Edwin, Woodbine cottage Margetts Wm. Jas. Stonebridge park bridge park Grave Wltr.Cavendish rd.Brondesbury Marian John, Winchester villa, Caven- Bosworth Miss, Bosworth lodge Green Miss, Ashford house, Cavendish dish road, Brondesbury Brandon Thomas, Brondesbury park road, Brondesbury Marrian John, Brondesbury house Brauthwaite Harrison, 8 St. Mary's rd Greenwood William, Heathfield Maryon John, 1 Graham cottag-e Brooks Thos. Rutland ho. The Avenue Harris Henry, 3 St. Mary's road Millachip William, Hope lodge, Caven- Brown Rev. John Thos. M.A. Oakfield Hanis Lawrence B. I2 Cavendish dish road, Brondesbury Burgoyne .John, Stonebridge park roacJ, Brondesbury Moreton Alfred, I6 St. Mary's road Butler J ames William, Blyth house, Hay J ames Gordon, Mapeshill house Morewood Wm. Gordon, Fortune gate Stonebridge park Hay Miss, Green Morgan Edward, Brougbam villa Butt Charles, Park house, Cavendish Healey Thomas, Rathowen villa,Caven M unt William road, Brondesbury dish road, Brondesbury M urphy Mrs. Ella cottage Carr Miss, 5 The A venue Henderson Robert, 4 Brondesbury N ash Thomas, 1 Myrtle villas Chapman John, sen. Queenstown Park villas Nicholson John, Stonebridge park Cloudesley John, Church road Hendrv Mrs. Charlton villas Nitberway Edwin, Church road Cockshott John, 7 St. Mary's road Horsley George, Acra lodge, Caven Oldrey Edmund P. Thornton house Cooper Frederick, Cavendish villa, dish road, Brondef!bury Parsons Henry, Fortune gate Cavendish road, Brondesbury Hyde William, 2 St. l\lary's road Peace James, Church road Coote George J olm, Green Inch bald Mrs. Sunderland house,Stone Peacock John, Green Dascombe Mrs. 12 ~t. l\Iary's road hridge park Perkins William Tindal, N orthumber Davison Thomas, Rossetthouse, Caven- Johnson Samuel, Brookfield villa, land house, Stonebridge park dish road, Brondesbury Nicolli road Petch Henry, Church road Dickens Edward, Green - J ones Miss, Cleveland house Platts Richard, Stanmore villa, Caven Don Andrew, Tay villa, Church road Jones Mrs. Morn villas, Church road dish road, Brondesbury Dowsett Charles, Church road J ones Mtrs. Harley, Stonebridge park Pope Mrs. 4 Fortune villas Dunb:rr Mrs. I Fortune villas Kelly Thomas, 3 Charlton villas Proddow William, Cumberland villa, Edwa·•ds William, 6 Cavendish road, Kennedy Mrs. 4 St. Mary's road Stonebridge park B:rondesbury Kerr William Patterson. Hill side Read Henry Charles, Church road Ellis Mrs. Church road Kershaw John, Park house Read Thos. 3 Brondesbury Park villas Entwietle Miss, Fortune gate Kew Frederick Edward, South Point, Robbins William Edward, Church road Everett W m.Saml.2 Brondesbury villas Stonebridge park Roberts Edwin Spence, Hill side Ewin John. The Elms Kite ?firs. 4 The A venue Roberts William, R0se villa .