EDMONTON
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 947
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
EDMONTON
, an urban district in the Enfield parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, suburban to London, 71 M
.
N. of London Bridge, on the Old North Road, on the west side of the Lea Valley
.
Pop
.
(1891) 25,381; (1901) 46,899
.
There are numerous factories in the valley, and Edmonton consists largely of the cottages of artisans
.
The See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of All Saints has been extensively restored, but retains part of the ancient fabric of Perpendicular and earlier date
.
It contains brasses of interest, and in the churchyard is the memorial of Charles Lamb, who lived and died (1834) at Edmonton, and his sister
.
Cowper and Keats were also residents, and the See also: - BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
is famed through Cowper's poem John Gilpin
.
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