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Mill-Hill

MILL-HILL, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish and union of Hendon, hundred of Gore, county of Middlesex, 2½ miles (E. N. E.) from Edgware; containing 1050 inhabitants. The land is chiefly meadow and pasture, with a fine swelling surface, and varied and beautiful scenery, interspersed with several handsome residences. On Highwood hill is the mansion in which the celebrated Lord Russell dwelt previously to his arrest: the late William Wilberforce, M.P., also resided here; and subsequently Sir Stamford Raffles, to whom we owe the origin of the Zoological gardens, and whose lady is the present occupant. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed; patron, the Vicar of Hendon. The church, dedicated to St. Paul, is a substantial and neat structure in the later English style, in the centre of the village, erected in 1833, chiefly at the expense of Mr. Wilberforce, and at a total cost of about £3500; attached to it is a cemetery, consecrated in 1842. There is a place of worship for Independents. The Protestant dissenters' grammar school here was founded in 1807, on the site of the residence of Peter Collinson, Esq., an eminent naturalist, at an expense of £25,000. A national school was built in 1834.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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