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Place name County Entry Source CHELSEA CHELSEA , a London suburb, a parish, and a district in Middlesex. The suburb lies on the Thames, opposite Battersea and Imperial DERBY (West) Kensington, Stanley, Knotty-Ash, and other hamlets, and part of the borough and suburbs of Liverpool; contains a botanic garden, a zoological garden, a lunatic asylum, and a large industrial school; and was only a chapelry of Walton-on-the-Hill till 1847. Acres, 6, 123. Rated property, £232, 783. Pop. in 1841, 16, 864; in 1861, 52, 694. Houses, 9, 239. Pop. of the portion within Liverpool borough, in 1841. 9, 760: in 1861, 36, 527. Houses, 6, 378. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value Imperial GEORGE (St.) HANOVER-SQUARE GEORGE (St.) HANOVER-SQUARE , a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Westminster, Middlesex. The parish is the largest Imperial HAMMERSMITH Kensington district, Middlesex. The suburb lies on the river Thames, 6 miles WSW of St. Pauls; is almost joined to London, through the medinm of Kensington; lies within the district of the Metropolitan Board of Works; has stations, with telegraph, on the Hammersmith and City railway, and on the Kew section of the North London railway; has post offices‡ in Broadway, King street, Dorcas terrace, and Starch green, a post office‡ in New road, and pillar boxes in Brook green, Fulham road, Hammersmith terrace, and the Grove, under London W.; and is a seat of petty sessions Imperial KENSINGTON St. Mary-K., £1, 242; of H. T., £639; of St. Mary-W. B., £300; of the others, not reported. Patron of St. Mary-K., St. John, St. James, H. T., and St.with-ST. A., the Bishop of L.; of St. B., the Vicar of St. Mary-K.; of St. Ph., the Rev. J. D. Clayton; of St. Peter, R. Martin, Esq.; of A. S., the Rev. Dr. Walker; of St. Mark, Miss Keye; of St. Mary-W. B., the Vicar of H. T.; of St. Paul and St. Peter, Onslow-square,J. Freake, Esq.; of St Imperial Kilmarnock Kilmarnock, a royal and police burgh in the SW corner of the parish just described, a seat of important manufactures Groome KNIGHTSBRIDGE KNIGHTSBRIDGE , a quondam hamlet, now a metropolitan suburb, and three chapelries, in the parishes of St. George-Hanover-square, St Imperial LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England Imperial LONDON Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham, Chelsea, St. George-Hanover-square, St. John-the-Evangelist-Westminster, St. Margaret-Westminster, St. Peter-Westminster, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James Westminster, St. Marylebone, Hampstead, St. Pancras, Islington, StokeNewington, Hackney, St. George-Bloomsbury, St. Gilesin-the-Fields, St. Anne-Soho, St. Paul-Covent-garden, St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Clement-Daues, St. Andrew-Holborn-above-the-Bars, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Minories, St. George-in-the-East, Stepney, Limehouse, Bow, BromleySt.Leonard, Poplar, Christchurch-Southwark, St.SaviourSouthwark, St. Olave-Southwark, St. Thomas-Southwark, St. John-Horsleydown, Bermondsey, St. Georgethe-Martyr, Newington, Lambeth, Clapham Imperial MARYLEBONE MARYLEBONE , a parish, a district, and a borough, in Middlesex. The parish forms a compact portion of the metropolis; lies Imperial NOTTING-HILL St. John, St. Peter, All Saints, St. Mark, and St. Andrew; and were constituted in 1845, 1857, 1861, 1863, and 1867. Pop. of St. John in 1861, 15, 662; of St. Peter, 6, 660. Houses, 1, 913 and 981. The livings are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron of St. John, the Bishop of London; of St. Peter, R. Martin, Esq.; of All Saints, Dr. Walker; of St. Mark, Miss Kaye. St. John's churchstands on the site of the Hippodrome; and is a cruciformstructure in the early English style, with a good spire. St. Peter Imperial Stirling Stirling (old forms Strivelin, Striveling, Strivelyn, Strewelin, Sterling), a market town, a royal and parliamentary burgh, and the county town Groome WESTMINSTER Kensington palace and to Chelsea hospital on the W; it measures about 3½ miles from E to W, and from ½ mile to 2 miles from N to S; it stands compactly, all round, with other parts of the metropolis; it contains St. James' park, the Green park, Hyde park, and 16 squares; and, except for including these open places and some minor ones, it is all completely edificed. It took its name from a great minster, founded in the early part of the 7th century, and called West-Minster in distinction from the original St. Paul Imperial
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