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PHYSICAL FEATURES.—
The district is widespread having an area of 8,382 acres
and being- slightly over 6 miles long in the largest diameter,
from North-west to South-east and about 3½ miles across at
its widest portion.
It is a long irregular area lying almost entirely on the
North-east side of the Edgware Road and is bounded
On the North by Elstree and Totteridge,
On the East by Finch-ley,
On the South-east and South by Hampstead,
and on the West by Willesden, Kingsbury and
Edgware.
It is divided into the following wards:—
Mill Hill.
West Hendon.
Central Hendon.
Golders Green.
Garden Suburb.
Child's Hill (including a portion of Cricklewood),
The old village of Hendon is the nucleus of the district
and as recently as the early years of this Century Golders
Green and Garden Suburb districts were quite undeveloped,
the district at that time consisting of several quite separate
aggregations of population. Now the houses are almost
continuous over a large portion of the district and development
of the undeveloped portions, is proceeding rapidly.
The ground undulates considerably and the altitude
ranges from 130 feet above sea level at the Welsh Harp to
463 feet at the Northern Boundary, the latter figure being
23 feet above the highest point of Hampstead Heath.
The subsoil is almost entirely London clay. My predecessor
records that "deposits of river gravel are found near
the Brent showing that it was once a very large river bed.
Some interesting specimens of fossil shells were excavated
during the progress of some sewerage works in 1871 at
Burgess Hill."