Whetstone, Middlesex

Historical Description

Whetstone, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Finchley parish, Middlesex, 2 miles SSE of Barnet. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1836; it has a station on the G.N.R., a post, money order, and telegraph office under London, N, a police station, and a home for incurables. Population, 2522. There are several good residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; gross value, £320 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is a building of brick in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with chantry and organ chamber, nave, N and S porches, and a bell-turret.

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 Whetstone from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Whetstone 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)

Villages, Hamlets, &c