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Kingsbury is a district of northwest London in the London Borough of Brent. Its ancient scope stretches to include various distinct areas that were once small villages until the inter-war period. Kingsbury was in 2001 a ward and in 2011 was identifiable with the Fryent and Barnhill wards approximately.
Kingsbury Middlesex. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kingsbury like this: KINGSBURY, a parish in Hendon district, Middlesex; on the river Brent, 2 miles NE of Sudbury r. station, and 8 NW of St. Paul's, London.
Guide to Kingsbury, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
- Early History of Kingsbury
- Early History of Chalkhill
- Middle Ages to The 18th Century
- Pubs
- Notable Residents
- 19th Century Life
- Schools and Churches
- Industry
- Wembley Urban District
- London Borough of Brent
Kingsbury (‘The King’s manor’) developed between two ancient north-south routes, Edgware Road (then called Watling Street) and Honeypot Lane. Remains from cremation burials have been found near the Brent Reservoir, which date back to the Bronze Age. Roman material has been found at St Andrew’s Church, leading to the theory that it was built on the ...
Chalkhill is first mentioned in its present form in 1240. It later came into the possession of the Order of St John (a Catholic military order linked to helping the disadvantaged – in the UK, an offshoot of the order is St John’s Ambulance). Freren Manor, just north of the church, was named after the group, also known as the Knights Hospitaller (‘F...
The medieval settlement pattern was scattered. In the middle ages, people settled in Kingsbury Green, Roe Green, Pipers Green and near the Hyde. Pipers Green is thought to have been named after John Lyon, a 15thcentury piper. Despite its small size, the boundaries of the parish were uncertain. Kingsbury was closely connected to nearby Edgware, espe...
Records show that there were six pubs in Kingsbury in 1751. The Plough inn at Kingsbury Green is first mentioned in 1748. However, three pubs, the Black Horse and two establishments called the Chequers, had disappeared from records by 1803. There were two pubs called the King’s Arms, one on Edgware Road, and one at the Hyde, which both dated back t...
Although most people worked the land, a few wealthy or famous people also lived in Kingsbury. From 1771 to 1774, the writer Oliver Goldsmith lived at Hyde Farm, which was visited by his friends Dr Johnson, James Boswell and Joshua Reynolds. Goldsmith wrote She Stoops to Conquer in Kingsbury. In 1893, Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Water...
In 1835, work on the Kingsbury Reservoir was completed. Largely, because of the efforts of the proprietor of the Old Welsh Harp pub, William Perkins Warner, the area around the reservoir became a pleasure garden. From 1860 to 1885, events and activities held here included horse races (until they were banned in 1878), greyhound races (held from 1876...
Records show John Bishop, curate of Kingsbury, kept a school in Kingsbury in 1530. By 1819, records show 35 children were being formally educated, perhaps in a Sunday school. In 1822, the first day school opened, with 30 children joining by 1833. Roman Catholic children, presumably the offspring of the Irish farm workers, had a school from 1865. In...
Proximity to Hendon Aerodrome led to the development of an aircraft industry in northeast Kingsbury during the First World War. Many of the workers were women. There were also three aerodromes in Kingsbury itself. In 1909-10, 20 houses were constructed at Stag Lane. At the end of the First World War, the architect Frank Baines built Roe Green Villa...
Kingsbury, originally part of Wembley Urban District, had been an independent Urban District from 1900 to 1934. In 1934, Kingsbury Urban District was again amalgamated into Wembley Urban District. Between 1935 and 1940, Wembley Council built an impressive new town hall on Forty Lane, in what had been Kingsbury. In 1939, an open-air swimming pool wa...
In 1965, Willesden and Wembley joined to become the new London Borough of Brent. At this time there remained a divide between the richer, Conservative Wembley, and the more economically disadvantaged, Labour Willesden. Even before this occurred, a plan had been devised to build a high-density council estate at Chalkhill to help move people out of o...
Kingsbury, a parish in Middlesex, on the river Brent, 8 miles NW of St Paul's, London, 1 mile SW from the Welsh Harp and Hendon stations on the M.R., and 1¼ NW from Kings-bury Neasden station on the Metropolitan Extension railway. It contains the hamlet of Kingsbury Green, and part of the village of Hyde, and is in the North-Western ...
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Kingsbury is a district of northwest London in the London Borough of Brent. Its ancient scope stretches to include various distinct areas that were once small villages until the inter-war period. Kingsbury was in 2001 a ward and in 2011 was identifiable with the Fryent and
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