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years. The g:reat eastern and southern fronts were erected by Sir 

 Christopher Wren. The palace contains a number of hiatorical portraits, 

 the Beauties of the Court of Charles II., painted by Lely, and many 

 pictures by the old masters, but the Cai-toons of Rafaelle constitute its 

 chief treasure. The gardens are laid out in tlie formal taste of the 

 reign of William III. Bushey Park and lodge form an appendage of 

 Hampton Court Palace. Hampton races are held on Moulsey Hurst, 

 on the opposite side of the Thames. In the village of Hampton 

 are the parish church and a chapel for Independents. The Free 

 Qrammar school, which has an endowment of 3671. a year, consists 

 of an upi>er and lower school at Hampton, and a branch school 

 at Hampton Wick. At Hampton are a Charity school, a school of 

 Industry, and an Infant school ; and at Hampton Wick is a Free 

 school for pirls. JIanwelt, about 12 miles W. from the Post-Office, 

 population 1547, is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river 

 Brent The parish church, erected in 1841, is in the early English 

 style. The Independents have a chapel, and there is a National school. 

 The County Lunatic Ajsylum, openeid in 1841, affords accommodation 

 for about 1000 patients. The cost of erection was upwards of 180,000^ 

 HartfieM, on the border of the county, and on the left bank of the 

 river Colne, 5 miles N. A-om Uzbridge : population, 1498. Besides 

 the pariah church there is a National schooL The extensive works of 

 the Mines Royal Copper Company are in the vicinity. By the Orand 

 Junction Canal there is water communication with Uxbridge and West 

 Drayton. At Harefield was the residence of the Lord Keeper Egerton, 

 where Sbakspere's Othello was. played for the first time before Queen 

 Elizabeth, and where about thirty years later Hilton's Arcades formed 

 the poetic part of an entertainment presented before the Countess 

 Dowager of Derby, the then proprietor of Hare&eld. The mansion 

 was burnt down in 1660. Harrow-on-the-ffill, about 12 miles N.W. 

 from the Post-Office, population 4951 , derives its celebrity and chief 

 support from its Qrammar school, which was founded, under letters 

 patent of Queen Elizabeth, by John Lyon, a wealthy yeoman of this 

 parish, in 1571. The school-buildings are situated near the parish 

 church. Harrow school is free to all boys of the parish of Harrow, 

 but the scholars are chiefly the sons of the nobility and gentry. 

 Among persons who have been educated at Harrow may be named 

 Sir William Jones, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron, and the 

 late Sir Robert PeeL The number of scholars in 1853 was about 

 890. There are several exhibitions for Oxford and Cambridge. The 

 village is irregularly laid out. The parish church is a spacious struc- 

 tnre on the summit of the hill ; at tho west end ia a lofty tower, with 

 a spire. The church was thoroughly repaired a few years back. The 

 Baptists have a place of worship. There are a savings faaink and a 

 literary inatitute. A fair is held annually on the first Monday of 

 August. Highgate is situated on an eminence on the great north road, 

 6\ miles N.N.W. from the Post-Office : popuhition of the ecclesiastical 

 district, 4602. The village comprises many good houses. The church, 

 recently built in the gothic style, is a handsome edifice, with a fine 

 spire. The Baptists and Independents have places of worship. The 

 Endowed Qrammar school, founded by Chief Justice Cliolmeley in the 

 reign of Elizabeth, has an income from endowment of Till, a year. 

 It is free to 40 boys, nominated by the governors from the neighbour- 

 hood. The number of scholars in 1853 was 112. There are National 

 and Infant schoolii, a literary and scientific institution, a dispensary, 

 and a savings bank. Park House, on the north road, is occupied as 

 the Asylum for Idiots, established in 1847. A road crosses the north 

 road at Highgate over an archway of brick and stone. The North 

 London Cemetery ia on the slope of the hill just below Highgate 

 ehnrch. Honuey, about 7 miles N. by W. from the Post-Office : 

 population of the parish 7136, of whom 3260 are in the chapelry of 

 Highgate. The church, which ia of stone, has been rebuilt all but the 

 tower, which is ancient. There are National and Inifant schools at 

 Homaey. The bishops of London had formerly a palace here. hU- 

 worth a on the bank of the Thames, 11 miles W.S.W. from the Post- 

 Office, population 7007, of whom 1864 are in the chapelry of Hounslow. 

 At Sion, or Syon, in tiiis parish, was formerly a monastery of Bridge- 

 tine priests and nuns, founded in 1414 by Henry V., and originally 

 settleil at Twickenham. The site was granted by Edward VI. to the 

 Protector Somerset, who commenced the present mansion of Sion 

 House, which has received great additions and alterations from the 

 doksa of Northumberland, the subsequent proprietors. The village of 

 Isleworth contains sevend substantial vUIas and residences. The 

 church, on the bank of the Thames, is of brick, and was rebuilt in 

 1706 ; the tower, more ancient, is of stone. The Wesleyan Methodists, 

 Independents, Quakers, and Roman Catholics, have places of worship. 

 There are Bine Coat, Oreen Coat, British, and Infant schools, and 

 three nuiges of almshouses. The chief occupation is gardening ; great 

 qtiantitias of raspberries and strawberries are grown for the London 

 markel There are extensive flour-mills and a br ewery. Islington, 

 about 2 miles N. from the Post-Office, population 55,690 in 1841 and 

 86,329 in 1851, forms part of the metropolis. The principal street, 

 under the designation of High-street, Upper-street, and HoUoway, runs 

 for some miles along the north road to the foot of Highgate Hill. 

 The Regent's Canal is carried by a tunnel under the New River 

 •od ander the High-street, which is on an eminence. Many of 

 the inhabitants are cow-keepers, who supply the metropolis with 

 Uilki Than an soiae nonerygroonds, and a few mano&ctories 



together with lime aud coal wharfs, adjacent to tho Regent's Caual. 

 The parish church (St. Mary's, Islington), situated between Upper 

 aud Lower streets, ia of brick, with a tower of the same material, 

 surmounted by a stone spire of good design. There is a chapel of 

 ease at Lower HoUoway, a pl.iin and rather heavy brick building 

 erected in 1814; and there are numerous district churches in the 

 parish. Wesleyan Methodists, Independents, English Presbyterians, 

 Baptists, Irvingites, Roman Catholics, and others have chapels. 

 There are also National, British, and Infant schools; two literary 

 institutions ; a savings bank ; and a proprietary school, established in 

 1830, in connection with King's College, which had 113 scholars in 

 1853. At Islington is a college founded in 1827, by the Church 

 Missionary Society, for the education of young men designed for 

 foreign missions, which had 31 students in 1853 ; and at Highbury 

 Park is the Church of England Metropolitan Institution, for training 

 masters for National, Parochial, and other juvenile schools ; it had 

 43 students in July, 1852. The Caledonian Asylum, a handsome 

 building in the Caledonian Road, is for the education and clothing of 

 children of Scotch parentage. "The Model Prison, Pentonville, is in 

 Cale<lonian Road. The new City Prison, at HoUoway, is a castellated 

 structure of great extent. At Upper HoUoway are the Small-Pox 

 Hospital, and VVhittington College, an asylum for 28 females, supported 

 by the Mercers' Company. The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum 

 at Ball's Pond, built in 1836, accommodates 50 inmate.s. Cauonbury 

 Tower, a heavy square brick building, is a relic of Cauonbury House, 

 the former mansion of the priors of St. Bartholomew's Monastery iu 

 Smithfield. Kentitk Tov>n, a suburban village in tho north-west of 

 London, contains two district churches, two chapels for Imiependents, 

 chapels for Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, aud 

 Unitarians ; National, British, and Infant schools ; and the Asylum 

 for Decayed Oovemesses. Kilburn, anciently Cunebum, on the 

 Edgware Road, about 6 mUes N.W. from the Post-Office. There is 

 here a chnpel of ease to WiUesden parish. Keusall Green Cemetery 

 is a short distance east of Kilburn. South Mimms is pleasantly 

 situated about 4 miles N. by W. from Bamet : population, 2825. 

 Besides the parish church there are National schools. The population 

 is agricultural. Soulhall, population of tho chapelry 325, about 

 13 miles W. from the Post-Office, has a large caltle-msrket, held 

 weekly on Wednesilay, for which facilities are afforded by the Great 

 Western railway. There are a chapel of ease aud a National school, 

 both buUt by Mr. Henry Dobbs. Southgate, about 10 mUes N. from 

 the Post-Office, has a district church, a chapel for Independents, and 

 National and Infant schools. The vicinity is attractive in its scenery. 

 Ortat Slanmore, 14 miles N.W. from the Post-Office, population IISU, 

 situated on rising ground, consists chiefly of one long street. There 

 are a new church, opened in 1850, aud National and Infant schools. 

 The old church was erected in 1632. Bentley Priory, the seat of the 

 Marquis of Abercom, occupies the site of a priory formerly existing 

 here. Teddinglon, about 14 miles S.W. from the Post-Office, popu- 

 lation 1146, is on the left bank of tho Thames; the first look on the 

 river is at this place. The church is of brick, with a low square 

 tower, and contains several interesting tablets and monuments. In 

 this church John Walter, Esq., tho late chief proprietor of the 'Times' 

 newspaper was interred. There are are at Teddington a Free school 

 and an Infant schooL Tottenham, 6 miles N. by E. from the Post- 

 Office, population 9120, is a favourite place of residence for London 

 merchants and persons of independent means. The main street ia 

 formed of good houses irregularly ranged along the road. In this 

 street is a cross, erected in 1600 in place of a former wooden one. 

 The church is an ancient building, with a square embattled tower 

 covered with ivy. There are also a district church ; chapels for 

 Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists, Quakers, Plymouth Brethren, and 

 Roman Catholics ; a Free Grammar school, which had 80 scholars in 

 1853; a Blue-Coat school for girls; National, British, and Infant 

 schools, and a school of Industry for girls ; a Proprietary school ; a 

 literary and scientific institution ; and a savings bank. The Fishmon- 

 gers' and Poulterers' Company have an asylum, and there are Printers' 

 Almshouses. The Roman Catholics have a convent. Bruce Castle, now 

 occupied as a school, is a brick mansion, rebuilt in the latter part of the 

 17th century. The edifice takes its name from a castellated mansion 

 the residence of Robert Brace the elder, father of the king of Scotland 

 of that name, which formerly occupied the site. Twirkenham, on the 

 left bank of tho Thames, about 12 mUes S.W. from the Post-Office, 

 population 6254, has derived celebrity from its being the residence of 

 Alexander Pope, and several other eminent persons. The village is 

 irregularly laid out, but contains a number of genteel residences. The 

 church is near the river, and is a plain brick structure, built in the 

 early part of the last centui^, with an ancient embattled tower. It 

 contains monuments erected by Pope to the memory of his piirents, 

 and by Bishop Warburton to Pope himself. Besides the parish church 

 there are Trinity church and schools, chapels for Wesleyan Methoilists 

 and Independents, Archdeacon Cambridge's National school, and Lady 

 Shaw's Infant school. Among the private residences are Strawberry 

 HiU, aud a strange-looking modem house termed ' Pope's Villa,' 

 because it occupies the site of the poet's residence. Strawberry Hill 

 was in great part erected by Horace Walpolo, and is a medley of 

 castellated and ecclesiastical gothic architecture. There are powder- 

 and oil-millfl in the parish. Twioksuham Ait is a small island iu the 



