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100 EDGWARE. MIDDLESEX. [ KELLY'S Hitchcock Henry, station master, *Parr William Richard, linen draper Stuttle Wm. Hy. confectioner,High st; Great Northern Peck Charlotte (Mrs.), beer retailer, Taylorlsaac,dairyman,Lit.Stamnore fm Hoare Horace, beer retlr. Burnt Oak High street Thorndick William, baker Holbrook Edward Charles, inspector Plumb George, grocer, & post office, Tibbles Hannah (Mrs.), fishmonger, of water works Burnt Oak High street Holdway Frederick, farmer Plumb William, laundry, South road *Tolman Sarah & Alice (Misses), Huggett Jas. greengrocer, Burnt Oak Pollard William, scale maker dress makers, Barnet road Jeapes Arnos, farmer, Canons Pk. frm *Porter Thoma.s, baker Tootell Alfred William, solicitor & Johnson Henry, furniture dealer Pottle Hy. Wm. carter &c. 1 South rd steward of the manors of Harrow *Jones Edwin Francis, butcher Pratt John, contractor otherwise Sudbury & Harrow rectry *Keen Frederick, Post office Pruden James, saddler Tootell Frank, a.sJsiS!tant ove:rseer .t Kimpton Robert, farmer tPuddifant James, jun. farmer, collector of poor rates for Edgwar& Kitchiner Benj. Geo. beer ret. Stanmre Grange farm, Brockley hill & Little Stanmore Lawrence Harry, farmer Puddifant Thos. frmr. Nicolls farm Tootell William Arthur, clerk to jna- London & South Western Bank Lim. Pulham Saml. & Sons, btchrs. High st tices for the division of Gore, t() (branch) (S. Wildash, manager; Rule Samuel, shopkeeper, High street tax commissioners, to the school open tues. & thurs.ro.3o a.m. to 2.4'5 Rust Louisa (Mrs.), ,shpkpr.Burnt Oak obards Edgware & Kings bury, t- p.m.; sat. II a.m. to 12.15 p.m) St. Mary of Nazareth Sisters of the vestry clerk for Henden & Willesdeu Lukyn Maria. (Mrs.), patent medicine Poor (Church of England) (theRev. Tubman Joseph, beer retailer vendor Mother, lady superior), The Hale Volunteer Fire Brigade (Frank Toot- Lukyn Sarah An_n (Miss), vaccination >JSanderson Rev. Lancelot :M.A. Els- ell, captain) officer & registrar of births & deaths tree school WalkerMtt.hw.dairyman,Whitchurch la *Maddin John, tailor SchererHenry,White Hart P.H.Hi~h st Warby Benjamin, blacksmith Mair James, boot maker Seabrook John, greengrocer, High st. tWardell (Mary) Convalescent Home- Manu George Regester, road contrac- Shaw Wm. Albt. Bald Faced Stag P.H (Miss M. Wardell, hon. sec.),Brock- tor, High street Shnttleworth James, Old George P.H. ley Hill Ma.S'sey Henry, shopkpr. High street Hig-h street Weir .Alexander, draper Mathew Charles, ironmonger, High st Smith Robert, chimney sweeper White Francis, Masons Arms P.H Meager Annie Sophia (Mrs.), beer Smith Wm. Thos. carpenter, High st Willby William Vickers, tailor retailer, Burnt Oak Stone George, life insurance agent, tWilshin Henry Joseph, farmer. Monk James, carman Ivy cott.age, Stone grove Brockley hill Muddle Henry, farmer, Stoney Field Stonebridge Wm. sen. bldr.Burnt Oak Wyand Benjamin John, boarding schr farm, The Hale Stonebridge William Henry, builder, Wyand Isabella(Mrs.),preparatory schl Nutkins James, parish clerk decorator & contractor, High street UPPEI~ and LO,VER EDMONTON. EDMONTON, in "Domesday Book" called Adelmeton, both, c. 15o6; to Nicho~as and Elizabeth Boone, 1520; one "the town of Aldhelm or Adhelm," is an ancient town to Edward Nowell, ob. 1616, and Mary (Isham) his wife, and parish, with two stations on the Enfield branch ob. r6oo, with 4 children; and a tomb with inscription of the Great Eastern railway, another on a branch to John Kirton: the stained east window is a memoria! line and one on the main line of the same to E. T. Busk esq. and there are two windows on the company; a line was opened in 1892 from Ed south side in memory of the Rev. Reginald E. Cople monton to Cheshunt and connected With the ston, late vicar of Edmonton, who died in 1878: m wards, namely, Church Street, Bury Street, Fore S,treet 1888 a finely carved stone tablet was erected by the and South Street. It is 7 miles from London in the London and Middlesex Archreological Society in memory Enfield division of the county, hundred, petty sessional of the poet Cowper: there are I,IOo sittings, 100 being division, union and county court district of Edmonton, free. The register of burials dates from the year 1557; rural deanery of Enfield, archdeaconry of Middlesex marriages, 1558; and of baptisms from I559· The and diocese of London, and was added to the Metro living is a vicarage, dating from the yeal" 1335, net yearly politan polioe district, 13th Oct. 184o. value £845, including 20 acres of glebe and residence, in The parish adopted rthe " Public Health Act of I 848 " the gi~t of the Dean and Chapt-er Qf St. Paul's, and held 21 June, r859, but by the operation of the "Edmonton since r882 by the Rev. Robert Stewart Gregory M.A. o.f Local Board (Division of District) Act, r88r," it was divided Trinity College, Oxford. into two Urban Sanitary Districts, Edmonton and South There is a parish room in St. George's road. gate. Under the provisions of the "Local Government The ecclesiastical district of St. J ames', Upper Ed Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73) an Urban District monton, was formed out of All Saints' parish August Council of nine members has been formed for theo Ed 29, 1851: the church, erected in 1849, is a cruciform monton Local BQard area. building of stone, in the Early English style, consistin!!' In pursuance of the "-Local Government Act of 1894," of apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, the old civil parish of Edmonton has been f(}rmed into two, south porch and a western turret containing I bell: consisting of the Edmonton and Southgate Urban areas. there are three memorial windows in the chancel to the The district has an efficient system of sewage, including Rev. George Phillips M.A. the first vicar, and five a farm of 300 acres where the sewage mat.ter is t.reated others : the church was consecrated April 8th, rBso. and then distributed on the principle of irrigation. The and was renovated and furnished with choir !taUs and district is supplied with water by the New River other fittings in 1882 at a cost of £ r,ooo, the organ Company, and with gas by the Tottenham and Ed being at the same time rebuilt : there are 6oo sittings, monton Gas Light and Coke Co. from works in Dyson's of which about half are free. The register dates from lane, established in 1846. the year I 85 I. The living is a vicarage, net yearly The SalmQnS brook, a feeder of the river Lee, flows value £420, with residence, in the gift of the vjcar of through the northern part of the parish, and Pymm s Edmonton, and held since r88I by th& Rev. Lncins brook, another feeder, through the southern portion. George Fry M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church of .All Saints, an edifice of brick and stone The population in 1891 was 6,522, excluding officers and in the Perpendicular style, consists of chancel, nave of inmates in the Edmonton and Strand Union Workhouses. four bays, aisles, and an embattled western tower, con St. Mary's is an ecclesiastical district, formed 31 Aug. taining a clock and 8 bells, besides the curfew or r883. The church, in Fore street, consecrated in 1884, saints' bell: the old tenor bell was replaced in 1866 by is an edifice of brick witlh stone dressings, in the Early a new one, weighing II cwt. : the nave and chancel English style, consisting of nave, aisles, north porch and (now nearly hidden by ivy) were cased outside with vestries ; there are several stained windows and 550 sitting~. brick in 1772, since which the church has been restored The register dates from the year 1884. The living is a and an organ chamber added: in 1871 a new font, stone vicarage, yearly value £205, in the gift of the vicar of reredos, brass standards and choir stalls were added, Edmonton, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Frederick chiefly at the expense of the Rev. R. E. Copleston, late Lloyd Ware M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. A new vicar: a new south aisle was built in 1889, when vicarage was erected in 1893. The Congregational church, several ancient stones of Norman workmanship were Snell's park, is a structure in the Florid Goth.iD style, is found embedtled in the south wall: these are now built faced with stone and terra-cotta ornaments, and was buil~ into the new aisle : there are brasses to John Asplyn at a cost of £s,ooo: there are I,ooo sittings. Lower and Godfrey Askew !!~~d to Elizab~th, succes~ively wife of Edmonton Congregational church, Fore street, erected .... .