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Winchmore-Hill

WINCHMORE-HILL, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and hundred of Edmonton, county of Middlesex, 8 miles (N.) from London. The chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was erected in 1828, at an expense of about £5000, of which sum £3843 were granted by the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the remainder raised by subscription. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £220; patron, the Vicar. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, for Independents, and Wesleyans; and a national school. Dr. Fothergill, an eminent physician, and a member of the Society of Friends, was buried here.

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

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