The history and antiquities of the parish of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex. Comprising an account of the manors, the church, and Southgate chapel ... / [William Robinson].

  • William Robinson
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1819
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the parish of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex. Comprising an account of the manors, the church, and Southgate chapel ... / [William Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through this parish from London, (8) to Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, by Waltham Cross. The parish is in circumference about twenty-one miles, and con¬ tains the following hamlets: viz. Edmonton Street and Village, Jeremy’s Green, Palmer’s Green, the Tile Kiln, Tanner’s End, Sadler’s Bridge, Church Street, Fore Street, Bury Street, Bourne, Winchmore Hill, Southgate, and Broomfield. (8) The great road from London to Hertford and Cambridge, which in its passage to this village separates the parishes of Newington and Hackney,and Finsbury and Tower divisions of Ossulton hundred, is delineated in the county maps as the ancient Ermen Street, which is “ corrupted from the Saxon name of a Roman road, that was accord- “ ing to Somner written Herman, Here in that language signifies an “ army, and Herman a soldier, which is no more than via militaris*.” It led from Newhaven, on the coast of Sussex, through Surrey to Lon¬ don, and thence passing under Cripplegatef through the counties of Middlesex, Hertford, Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk, and Norfolk, to Venta Icenorum, now Castor, a little to the south of Norwich. It is at this day believed to have quitted the great road on the east by Kingsland Green, a little to the north of the turnpike in the parish of Hackney, passed along that parish, then separated the parishes of Hornsey and Islington, on the north side of Newington Green, again of Hornsey and Islington, and again of Newington and Islington, and then of Newington and Hornsey, as far as the end of the hundred ; it then separated the parishes of Islington and Hornsey, and the hun¬ dreds of Edmonton and Ossulton, till it reached about as far as the Green Lane’s turnpike, when it entered the parish of Tottenham, passed through the Hamlets of Wood Green, and Bowe’s Farm, and thence into the parish of Edmonton to the entrance of Palmer’s Green, and between that hamlet and some land which is the property of S. P. Gudin, Esq. of Southgate, by a house, formerly in the pos¬ session of Mr. Justice Birch, into the road leading from Tanner’s-end Edmonton, to the north part of Southgate. Between Newington and * Salmon's Hist, of Hertfordshire. Art. Cheshunt. + According to the System of Geography. Art. London.
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