Middlesex place-names

Adm. div.
Full name	Middlesex
Abbreviation	Middx
Coordinate	51.527409, -0.327744
Area (1801)	729.114028 km2
Population (1801)	818129

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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Middlesex. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to page. Historical county boundary coordinates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

English counties. Click within any county to go to its landing page. There are also pages on: London, the East, North and West Riding of Yorkshire. Historical county boundary coordinates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.

County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Middlesex as follows:

Middlesex is the smallest English county after Rutland but the most populous in Britain. Middlesex is certainly the most urban county, being almost wholly covered by London and its outgrowths. Middlesex has been called "the Capital County" as the home of the capital city (whether you think that is London or Westminster). Unbroken townscape stretches from one side of the county to the other. This does however just link town to town without always erasing the distinctiveness of each Middlesex town and village. Most distinctive are the City of London and the City of Westminster adjoining it, the former housing the financial institutions of the kingdom and the latter its social, cultural and political institutions, and of course the top shops. The City of London is unique in being governed mainly by the business community which are, after all, its main inhabitants. London, by whatever definition, is a unique city and for all its faults the greatest, and most wonderous in the land, and second only to Edinburgh in any honest list of favourites. The change of perceptions, the growth of London and its monolithic grip on the imagination, has confined the name of Middlesex in many minds to the outer suburban fringe. Here there is a distinct suburban life. This is a mixture of calm communities, small towns and the communter belt. Within it towns such as Enfield, Ruislip and Uxbridge are distinct and loathe to call themselves "London". Middlesex is bounded on three sides by rivers; the Lea forms the eastern border with Essex, the Colne forms the western with Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, and the great River Thames is the southern border, against Surrey and Kent. Hertfordshire lies to the north. Some rural life survives along the Colne Valley forming Middlesex's western border and the northern stretches surrounding Potter's Bar. Potters Bar itself it a town separated from the conurbation, if individually urbanized in its own way.

Main Towns: Acton, Brentford, Camden Town, Chiswick, Edgware, Edmonton, Enfield, Fulham, Golders Green, Hackney, Hampstead, Hanworth, Harrow, Hendon, Highgate, Hounslow, London, Mill Hill, Millwall, Pinner, Potter's Bar, Soho, Staines, Stanmore, Tottenham, Uxbridge, Westminter, Whitechapel.
Main Rivers: Brent, Crane, Lea, Colne, Thames.
Highlights: Buckingham Palace; Harrow on the Hill; Hampton Court; Hampstead Hill; Hyde Park; Lord's Cricket Ground, Westminster Abbey; Syon House; St Paul's Cathedral; Tower of London; Houses of Parliament.
Highest Point: High Road, Bushey Heath, 155.14 m.
Area: 738.15 km².^[2]

Chronology

16th Century

1 Robin Hood-related place-name first documented in the 16th century.

Little John (London)

17th Century

6 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 17th century.

18th Century

19 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

18 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th Century

3 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

21st Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.

All localities

51 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

11 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.

Lists and gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website: Population tables I, Vol. I. England and Wales. Divisions I-VII, 1851 – Page clxviii (University of Essex). Google: Acres to km2.
↑ The Historic Counties Trust has kindly allowed me to quote its county descriptions in toto. We have converted square miles to km² and feet to meters.

Place-names

[census1801-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website: Population tables I, Vol. I. England and Wales. Divisions I-VII, 1851 – Page clxviii (University of Essex). Google: Acres to km2.

[2] The Historic Counties Trust has kindly allowed me to quote its county descriptions in toto. We have converted square miles to km² and feet to meters.

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