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A great many new streets have been made up providing
sanitary carriage and footways, and the main arteries, which
arc. continually being torn up by motor 'bus traffic, are about
to be paved with durable materials.
BOUNDARIES OF PARISH.
The parish is bounded on the north by Edgware, Elstree,
Chipping Barnet, Shenley, Totteridge, and Finchley; on the
south and east by Hampstead; and on the south and west by
Willesden, Kingsbury, and Little Stanmore. It measures
about miles in length, by 4 miles in breadth.
GEOLOGY.
The natural subsoil is the London clay; deposits of river
gravel are found near the Brent, shewing that it once was a
very large river. Some very interesting specimens of fossil
shells were excavated during the progress of some sewerage
works in 1871 at Burgess Hill.
SITUATION AND HEIGHT.
Hendon proper is situated in the angle of ground formed
by the junction of two streams—the Brent and the Silk—at
the Welsh Harp, or Hendon Reservoir. The highest point
in Central Hendon is 287 feet above the sea level. The
highest point in the parish is at Barnet Gate, 463 feet above
sea level, and 23 feet above the highest point of Hampstead
Heath.
The parish comprises the central village of Church End,
Brent Street and The Burroughs, and the following nine
districts—Mill Hill, Child's Hill, Golders Green, West
Hendon and The Hyde, Burnt Oak, The Hale, Cricklewood,
Temple Fortune (including Garden Suburb), and Page Street.