xl INTRODUCTION. 



Most of this district is flat and lies low, tlie north part is thinly 

 inhabited and laid out in grass meadows, the south part was formerly 

 an extensive heath, but is now mostly cultivated. 



IV. Upper Brent. — N. that of the county from Deacon's Hill on the 

 •west to the Barnet Road north of Whetstone ; W. the east of 1. as 

 far south as Harrow "Weald, and the east of III., as far south as 

 Harrow ; >S'. the road from Harrow through Sudbury and Apperton, 

 thence along the North-Western Railway, and Hampstead Junction 

 line to Kensal Green station ; E. the Hampstead Junction line from 

 Kensal Green station to a point near the Edgware Road station, 

 thence north-east following the high-ground at Shootup Hill through 

 Fortune Green by Burgess HiU, to the western corner of the north 

 Heath, Hampstead, thence along the south-western side of the heath, 

 and north along the made road across the heath to the ' Spaniards,' and 

 so by Hampstead Lane between Bishop's Wood and Ken Wood grounds 

 to Highgate, from this point north along the road to Muswell Hill, 

 thence west to Finchley, and follows the high road through Whetstone 

 to the northern boundary. (A small portion of Herts comes into the 

 basin of the Brent, though included in Fl. Herts, in that of the Lea ; it 

 contains the eminence on which Totteridge stands, and the vaUey 

 between it and Barnet.) 



This is the central district of the county, in contact with all the 

 others except H. It is a well-cultivated, fertile valley on the clay, at 

 one time forest land, and still containing many small woods and 

 copses. The hills forming its boundaries are capped with sand and 

 gravel, and are heaths. 



V. Loiuer Brent. — N. the south of IV. ; W. the east of III. as far 

 north as Harrow : S. that of the county from the western side of Sion 

 House Grounds to Hammersmith Bridge; E. from this point along 

 Bridge Road, Brook Green Lane, Shepherd's Bush Lane and Wood 

 Lane, along the eastern side of Wormwood Scrubs to the Kensal Green 

 Railway station. 



The south-western part of this district is part of the metropolis, and 

 building is rapidly extending into it. 



VI. Lea. — N. that of the county from the high-road north of 

 Potter's Bar to its eastern extremity ; W. the east of the outlying part of 

 I., the very irregular county boundary from Bamet to near Whetstone 

 and the east of JX., as far south as Highgate ; S. from Highgate along 

 Hornsey Lane through Crouch End to Hornsey Church, thence across 

 the Green Lanes to West Green, and through Tottenham High Cross, 

 to the county boundary; E. that of the coimty from its northern ex- 



