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EDMONTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMONTON , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Enfield See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, suburban to See also:London, 71 M. N. of London See also:Bridge, on the Old See also:North Road, on the See also:west See also:side of the See also: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 of All See also:Saints has been extensively restored, but retains See also:part of the See also:ancient fabric of Perpendicular and earlier date. It contains See also:brasses of See also:interest, and in the See also:churchyard is the memorial of See also:Charles See also:Lamb, who lived and died (1834) at Edmonton, and his See also:sister. See also:Cowper and See also:Keats were also residents, and the See also:Bell See also:Inn is famed through Cowper's poem See also:John See also:Gilpin.

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