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A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4, the City of Leicester
Thematic and topographical accounts of the city of Leicester, as well as histories of parishes added to the city since 1892.
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred
Covers the thirty-eight parishes of Gartree hundred and also the town of Market Harborough.
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2
A part-volume, detailing the history of the religious houses of the county.
A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2
A part-volume covering the history of the religious houses of the county, including Lincoln cathedral, and the Gilbertine house at Sempringham.
A History of the County of London: Volume 1, London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark
Part-volume, covering the history of the religious houses of the borough of Southwark and the cities of London and Westminster.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner
This volume covers 10 parishes in north-west Middlesex, completing Elthorne hundred, and covering half of Gore hundred. Five lie within the London Borough of Hillingdon, the others within Ealing, Barnet, or Harrow.
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 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 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.