Crouch End, Middlesex

Historical Description

Crouch End, a northern suburb of London, and an ecclesiastical parish in Hornsey civil parish, Middlesex, 5 miles N by W of St Paul's, London, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under London, N, and a station on the Edgware branch of the G.N.R. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; net yearly value, £230 with residence, Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style. There are also Baptist and Congregational chapels. The Hornsey Government School of Art at Crouch End Hill was established in 1882 for the exclusive study of art.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Crouch End from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Crouch-End)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of Crouch End are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)