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Finchley in Middlesex County England History and GeographyFINCHLEY, a parish in the Finsbury division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 7 miles (N.W. by N.) from London, containing 2349 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a stone edifice in the later English style, consisting of a nave, chancel, and north aisle, and containing several ancient monuments. Here are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The great north road through Highgate passes to the east of the parish church, and it is joined by a new road from St. John's Wood, Paddington. A market for pigs is held here every Monday. This place is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the recovery of debts under 40s., held at Kingsgate-street, Holborn. In 1489, Robert Waren gave land at Finchley for charitable uses, which, together with property arising from other benefactions, was vested in certain trustees, who erected an almshouse for six poor persons: the income is about £280 per annum, part of which is applied in repairing the church and highways, relieving the poor, and other purposes, the sum of £10 per annum being paid to a National school, which is further supported by subscription. Finchley common, stated to contain one thousand and ten acres of land now enclosed, is situated partly in this parish and partly in those of Friern-Barnet and Hornsey. On this spot General Monk drew up his army in 1660; and here also a detachment of troops encamped during the summer of 1780, after the riots in London, occasioned by the meeting of the Protestant Association under Lord George Gordon. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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