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FINCHLEY , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Hornsey See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, 7 M. N.W. of St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral, See also:London, on a See also:branch of the See also:Great See also:Northern railway. Pop. (1891) 16,647; (1901) 22,126. A See also:part, adjoining See also:Highgate on the See also:north, lies at an See also:elevation between 30o and 40o ft., while a portion ip 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)
Church End district lies See also:lower, in the valley of the Dollis See also:Brook. The pleasant, healthy situation has caused Finchley to become a populous residential district. Finchley See also:Common was formerly one of the most notorious resorts of highwaymen near London; the Great North Road crossed it, and it was a haunt of See also:Dick See also:Turpin and See also:Jack See also:Sheppard, and was still dangerous to See also:cross at See also:night at the See also:close of the 18th See also:century. Sheppard was captured in this neighbourhood in 1724. The Common has not been preserved from the builder. In 1660 See also:George See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk, marching on London immediately before the Restoration, made his See also:camp on the Common, and in 1745 a See also:regular and volunteer force encamped here, prepared to resist the Pretender, who was at See also:Derby.
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