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COLNEY-HATCH, a hamlet in Fryern-Barnet parish, Middlesex, 1¼ mile W of the Great Northern railway, and 3¼ SSE of Barnet. It has a post office under London N., and a station, jointly with Southgate, on the railway. The Middlesex county lunatic asylum here, opened in 1851, occupies fully 118 acres; is 1,883 feet long; and has accommodation for about 1, 250 patients. An artesian well at it, 330 feet deep, yields 120, 000 gallons a day.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Friern Barnet AP/CP Middlesex AncC |
Place: | Colney Hatch |
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