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Unit Name Type of Unit Containing Unit (and Type) KEW LG_Ward Parish-level Unit RICHMOND MB (Local Government District)
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Place name County Entry Source BODMIN Cornwall Kew. Acres of the district, 88,981. Poor-rates in 1866, £10,710. Pop. in 1861, 19,691. Houses Imperial BRENTFORD Middlesex Kew; and another bridge, erected in 1825 on the site of a very ancient one, crosses the Brent. The town Imperial Churchtown Cornwall Churchtown , vil., St Kew par., E. Cornwall, 4½ miles NE. of Wadebridge. Bartholomew EXETER Cornwall
DevonKew, St. Tethe, Tintagel, and St. Minver; and the p. curacies of Lanhydrock, Porthilly, and St. Enodoc. The deanery of Powder Imperial HAMMERSMITH Middlesex Kew section of the North London railway; has post offices‡ in Broadway, King street, Dorcas terrace, and Starch green Imperial HAMPSTEAD Middlesex Kew branch of the North London railway, near a tunnel of the Northwestern railway, 5 miles NW of St. Paul Imperial ISLEWORTH Middlesex Kew; consists chiefly of one street, with a square; was a very fashionable place prior to the removal of the Court Imperial KEA, or St. KEA Cornwall Kew. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Kenwyn, in the diocese of Exeter. The church was built Imperial KENTISH-TOWN Middlesex Kew section of the railway, a post office‡ under Hampstead, London NW, a police station, assembly rooms, and a brewery Imperial Kew Surrey Kew , par. and vil. (ry. sta. Kew Gardens), Surrey, on r. Thames, at boundary with Middlesex, opposite Brentford (with which Bartholomew KEW Surrey Kew first became a royal residence about 1730. Kew House then belonged to the Capel family. Frederick, Prince of Wales Imperial Kew Bridge Station Middlesex Kew Bridge Station , ry sta. at N. end of Kew Bridge, Brentford, Middlesex. Bartholomew Kew Gardens Station Surrey Kew Gardens Station , ry. sta. at Kew, Surrey. Bartholomew KEW (ST.) Cornwall KEW (ST.) , a village and a parish in Bodmin district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Amble, 4½ miles Imperial KEWSTOKE Somerset Kew Steps, leads up to a magnificent view and an ancient camp on Worle Hill. Limestone is quarried. The living Imperial LONDON London
LondonKew, Kingstonupon-Thames, Long Ditton, Malden, Merton, Mitcham, Morden, Mortlake, Petersham, Richmond, Sanderstead, Sutton, Thames-Ditton, Wallington, Warlingham, West Moulsey Imperial LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY London Kew, Brentford, and the main line beyond Hounslow. Its aggregate productive extent, in 1866, was 493¾ miles. The company Imperial PETERSHAM Surrey Kew, in the diocese of Winchester. The church was built in 1505; has been mainly modernized; and contains the grave Imperial RICHMOND Surrey Kew and Petersham, and the extra-parochial Thames Navigation toll-house. Acres, 2, 120. Pop. in 1851, 10, 917; in 1861, 12, 665. Houses Imperial St Kew Cornwall Kew , par. and vil., Cornwall - par., 7563 ac. and 201 foreshore, pop. 1102; vil., 7 miles S. of Camelford; P.O. Bartholomew
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