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'''Gore''' is a hundred of [[Middlesex]], covering an area in the north of the county stretching from [[Wembley]] northward either side of the [[Watling Street|Edgware Road]] to the [[Hertfordshire]] boundary. East to west it is broadly from [[Pinner]] to [[Mill Hill]]. | '''Gore''' is a hundred of [[Middlesex]], covering an area in the north of the county stretching from [[Wembley]] northward either side of the [[Watling Street|Edgware Road]] to the [[Hertfordshire]] boundary. East to west it is broadly from [[Pinner]] to [[Mill Hill]]. | ||
This hundred manages to encompass some of the most favoured villages and suburbs of the metropolitan conurbation, though deep within the crush of the urban and industrial in the south. | This hundred manages to encompass some of the most favoured villages and suburbs of the metropolitan conurbation, though deep within the crush of the urban and industrial in the south. It is the second-most populous of the hundreds after [[Ossulstone Hundred|Ossulstone]] with a population of 565,027 in 2011. | ||
The following ancient parishes and main towns within the hundred are:<ref>{{brithist|22159#n4|Victoria County Histories: Middlesex}}</ref> | The following ancient parishes and main towns within the hundred are:<ref>{{brithist|22159#n4|Victoria County Histories: Middlesex}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:36, 18 December 2018
Gore is a hundred of Middlesex, covering an area in the north of the county stretching from Wembley northward either side of the Edgware Road to the Hertfordshire boundary. East to west it is broadly from Pinner to Mill Hill.
This hundred manages to encompass some of the most favoured villages and suburbs of the metropolitan conurbation, though deep within the crush of the urban and industrial in the south. It is the second-most populous of the hundreds after Ossulstone with a population of 565,027 in 2011.
The following ancient parishes and main towns within the hundred are:[1]
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Edmonton • Elthorne • Gore • Isleworth • Ossulstone (including London) • Spelthorne |