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unusual facts about Edgware, Highgate and London Railway



Burnt Oak tube station

Burnt Oak tube station is a London Underground station in Burnt Oak, north London, on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman Road known as Watling Street).

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

Stretches of the Mill Hill East to Edgware line are now Local Nature Reserves, Copthall Railway Walk and Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve.

After the war, the introduction of London's Metropolitan Green Belt made the project to continue the line to Bushey unnecessary as the intended housing development proposed in the area was prevented by the new legislation.

The tracks were removed in 1971 following which the Northern City Line empty stock movements ran from Neasden via King's Cross (York Road) and the Widened Lines.

Gavin Baker

Gavin Charles Baker (born 3 October 1988, Edgware, Middlesex) is an English professional cricket player currently playing for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club after playing for his University, Loughborough MCCU.

Home and Colonial Stores

The business was founded by Julius Drewe who in 1883 went into partnership with John Musker selling groceries at a small shop in Edgware Road in London.

Maida, Calabria

A London pub on the Edgware Road was named The Hero of Maida, which in turn gave its name to adjoining districts of London, Maida Hill and later, Maida Vale.

Tony Porter

From 1977–1980, Porter served his first curacy at Edgware Parish Church in the Diocese of London, and from 1980–1983 was curate at St. Mary's Haughton Green in the Diocese of Manchester.


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