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WILLESDEN
, an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Harrow See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, suburban to See also:London, lying immediately outside the boundary of the See also:county of London' (boroughs of See also:Hammersmith and See also:Kensington)
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Pop
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(1881) 27,453; (1901) 114,811
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It has increased greatly as a residential district, mainly of the working classes
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There are, moreover, considerable railway See also:works attached to Willesden Junction, where the suburban lines of the London & See also:North Western, North London, and See also:Great Western See also:railways connect with the See also:main See also:line of the first-named See also:company
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Remains of See also:Norman See also:building have been discovered in the See also:
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