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WILLESDEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 659 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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). Pop. (1881) 27,453; (1901) 114,811. It has increased greatly as a residential district, mainly of the working classes. 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. Remains of See also:Norman See also:building have been discovered in the See also:church of St See also:Mary, which is of various See also:dates, and has been much enlarged in See also:modern times. Several See also:ancient monuments and See also:brasses are retained. There is a Jewish See also:cemetery in Willesden See also:Lane. The adjoining residential districts are Harlesden on the See also:south, Kilburn and Brondesbury on the See also:east, Cricklewood and Neasden (with the works of the See also:Metropolitan railway) on the north. At Domesday the See also:manor of Willesden and Harlesden was held by the canons of St See also:Paul's. In the 12th See also:century it was formed into eight distinct manors, seven of which were held by the same I number of prebendaries. A See also:shrine or See also:image of St Mary (Our See also:Lady of Willesden) was in the 15th century an See also:object of See also:pilgrim-See also:age, but by the See also:middle of the century following the ceremonies had fallen into abuse, and the shrine was suppressed.

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