Edgware

Edgware
Middlesex
Station Road, Edgware; facing North
Location
Grid reference:	TQ195925
Location:	51°37’7"N, 0°16’22"W
Data
Post town:	Edgware
Postcode:	HA8
Dialling code:	020
Local Government
Council:	Barnet
Parliamentary constituency:	Hendon

Edgware is a town and ancient parish in Middlesex on Watling Street, which is known in the county as the Edgware Road after this town. Edgware was a separate village until perhaps the early twentieth century. When the railway (now the Northern Line) was extended to Edgware, the village swelled enormously and in time joined the London conurbation.

Edgware's High Street is a section of the Edgware Road, itself the Middlesex section of the old Roman Road known as Watling Street. Much remains of the village in structure along the High Street, if little of its old buildings other than the parish church and two collections of almshouses.

History

Edgware is a Saxon name meaning Ecgi's weir. Ecgi was a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi's people caught fish. The Romans made pottery at Brockley Hill, thought by some to be the site of Sulloniacis. Canons Park, to the north-west, was developed as an estate by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos and was the site of his great palace Cannons.

Edgware was identified in 2008 as a major centre for preferred development in the London Plan.

Economy

Argonaut Games once had its head office in Edgware.

Sport

Edgware Cricket Club, based at Canons Park, play Sunday League cricket during the summer months.

Transport

Station Road. Here, all buses climb up the hill towards the station and the shops. St Margaret of Antioch Church can be seen in the background.

Edgware bus station.

Station Road during a quiet evening, 2008.

Tube

Stations in the area are:

• Edgware (Northern line)
• Burnt Oak (Northern line)
• Colindale (Northern line)

Buses

15 day London Buses serve Edgware, along with three night services, three school services, and two non-TfL routes.

Notable people

• Richard Russell Owner of UK Record Label, XL Recordings
• Anita Asante footballer
• Eleanor Bron — actress
• Max Bygraves — singer, comedian and actor
• Antony Costa — singer from boy band Blue
• Tony Currie — footballer
• Charlotte McDonagh — actress/television presenter/model and singer
• Shirley Eaton — actress
• Vanessa Feltz — TV/radio presenter
• Dayan Michoel Fisher — Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues
• Angharad Rees — actress
• Pat Sharp — disc jockey and television presenter
• Frank Williams — actor, most notable role: the vicar in Dad's Army
• John Bercow — Speaker of the House of Commons and MP for Buckingham
• Jane March — actress
• Mitchell Symons — journalist and author
• Barry Norman — television presenter and author
• Victor Feldman — jazz pianist
• Archie Panjabi — Emmy Award-winning actress, currently portraying Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife
• Boz Boorer — Guitarist, producer, co-writer and musical director for Morrissey.
• Dave Mattacks — Rock and Folk drummer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention.

Gallery

• 
  St Margaret of Antioch Church
• 
  Broadwalk Shopping Centre, located in the town centre. It was opened in the late 1980s.
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  A41 Edgware Way, located north from Edgware town centre. View from Edgwarebury Lane footbridge.
• 
  Basin Lake, located in Canons Drive to the west of Edgware. It is located in the borough of Harrow
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  Grassland in Edgwarebury Park, taken from the A41 Edgware Way/Watford-by-Pass. This is the far north, rural area of Edgware.
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  Former track of the Great Northern Railway line, which closed in 1964. View from Dean's Lane in the east of Edgware
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  Rose Garden Close in western Edgware, near Canons Drive. This road consists of large suburban houses, near Lake Grove
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  Premier Inn hotel, Edgware

Outside links

• Ward information
• Councillor information