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A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4, the City of Leicester
Thematic and topographical accounts of the city of Leicester, as well as histories of parishes added to the city since 1892.
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2
A part-volume, detailing the history of the religious houses of the county.
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred
Covers the thirty-eight parishes of Gartree hundred and also the town of Market Harborough.
A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2
A part-volume covering the history of the religious houses of the county, including Lincoln cathedral, and the Gilbertine house at Sempringham.
A History of the County of London: Volume 1, London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark
Part-volume, covering the history of the religious houses of the borough of Southwark and the cities of London and Westminster.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea
Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; and now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes
The volume is the first to cover parts of Middlesex which lay from 1889 until 1965 within the administrative county of London, with histories of the parishes of Islington and Stoke Newington.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century
This general volume covers the topics above for whole ancient county of Middlesex; it also has an English version of the Domesday book entries, separately indexed, and a general index to the rest of the volume.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham
The volume covers 9 parishes in north and north-east Middlesex, completing Gore hundred and embracing the whole of Edmonton hundred.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner
This volume covers 10 parishes in north-west Middlesex, completing Elthorne hundred, and covering half of Gore hundred. Five lie within the London Borough of Hillingdon, the others within Ealing, Barnet, or Harrow.