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Hendon in Middlesex County England History and GeographyHENDON, a parish in the hundred of GORE, county of MIDDLESEX, 7 miles (N. W.) from London, containing 3100 inhabitants. This place was in the tenth century given by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Westminster abbey, the abbots having had a palace here, the remains of which have been converted into a private mansion. The village is pleasantly situated on an eminence, in a small vale watered by the river Brent, over which is an ancient bridge of stone; the houses are irregularly built: in the neighbourhood are many handsome villas, and the environs are pleasant, abounding with rural walks and agreeable scenery. A court leet for the manor is held on the Tuesday before Whitsuntide, and a court baron occasionally. Hendon is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the recovery of debts under 40s., held during the summer half-year at Brentford, and during the winter at Uxbridge. The living is a vicarage, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of London, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop, rated in the king's books at £15. The Rev. C. L. Edridge was patron in 1812. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with some small remains in the Norman style, and a square embattled tower: the nave is separated from the aisles by octangular pillars and sharply-pointed arches; the altarpiece is finely sculptured, and the east window is embellished with a well-executed painting of the last Supper, and other subjects; the interior contains several ancient monuments and a Norman font. A new church is now being erected on Mill Hill, in the later style of English architecture, at the expense of William Wilberforce, Esq. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A school-room for boys was erected by John Bennet, Esq., on a piece of land given by Mr. David Garrick, the celebrated actor, then lord of the manor: there are fifty-three boys in this school, which is conducted on the National plan, and supported by subscription. A National school is also supported by subscription, in which fifty-one girls are instructed, forty-one of them being also clothed. John Cross, Esq. bequeathed £250 Bank annuities, for clothing four boys and four girls. Robert Daniels, Esq., of London, in 1681, bequeathed £2000 for the erection and endowment of an almshouse for six aged men and four aged women; with this sum, which had been left in the hands of his executors to accumulate for ten years, one hundred and thirty-two acres of land have been purchased: six almshouses were also erected in 1696, by Thomas Nichol, who endowed them for aged persons, each receiving four shillings per week. At Mill Hill is the Protestant Dissenters' grammar school: it was founded in 1807, and is under the direction of a chaplain, a head master, two assistant classical masters, and masters in the various departments of a liberal education, superintended by a com mittee: the buildings were erected on the site of the residence of Peter Collinson, Esq., an eminent naturalist, and completed at an expense of £25,000. On High wood hill is a mansion in which the celebrated Lord William Russel resided previously to his arrest, now inhabited by Lady Raffies; and near it is a mineral spring impregnated with cathartic salt. Hendon Place, the seat of Lord Tenterden, was a banqueting-house belonging to Queen Elizabeth. At a place called the Hyde, in this parish, a gold coin of one of the C?sars was found a few years since. William Rawlinson, Esq., one of the masters in Chancery, and keeper of the seals; Dr. Edward Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester; Charles Johnson, a dramatic author; Dr. James Parsons, anatomist and antiquary; Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Vice-President of the Antiquarian Society; and othereminent persons, have been interred here. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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