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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century
This general volume covers the topics above for whole ancient county of Middlesex; it also has an English version of the Domesday book entries, separately indexed, and a general index to the rest of the volume.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington
These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate
The volume covers the 3 outer parishes of the Finsbury division of Ossulstone hundred, separating the parishes in Gore and Edmonton hundreds described in Volume 5.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham
The volume covers 9 parishes in north and north-east Middlesex, completing Gore hundred and embracing the whole of Edmonton hundred.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green
The ancient parish of Stepney covered most of the area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the middle ages, but was gradually reduced in area.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden
The volume completes the coverage of outer Middlesex with the 5 outer parishes of the Kensington division of Ossulstone hundred.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10, Hackney
Hackney was the largest parish transferred to the administrative county of London in 1889, and became a metropolitan borough with over 220,000 inhabitants, before giving its name to a Greater London borough in 1965.
A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2
A part-volume detailing the history of the religious houses of the county, including the cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity at Norwich, and the pilgrimage site of Walsingham.
A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2
A part-volume covering the religious houses of the county.
A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4
Covers the parishes in the hundreds of Hamfordshoe, Higham Ferrers, Orlingbury, Spelhoe and Wymersley, in the central part of the county. It includes an account of the parish of Wellingborough.