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In 1870-1872, John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Harrow like this.
HARROW a small town and a subdistrict in the district of Hendon, Middlesex The city is in Harrow-on-the-Hill Parish; stands near London and Northwestern Railway, 1 mile N of Paddington canal, and 11 miles WNW of St Paul's in London; and a station on the railway with the telegraph, and a post office in London, NW.
He was known as Domesday Herges, -afterwards as Hareways; and it is supposed to occupy the site of a Roman military station It stands on a hill fully 200 feet high, surrounded by a vast plain; and command a panoramic view of the parts of thirteen counties There was once a market town, and still has a fair on the first Monday of August; It publishes a monthly newspaper; and it contains a good inn, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, famous Grammar School and national schools The church was built in the 14th century; retains parts of an old church, of Norman character, built by Archbishop Lanfranc; has an embattled western tower with the up arrow; was recently repaired and embellished, at a cost of 7000; and contains a Norman font Purbeck marble, and many brasses and monuments The grammar school was founded in 1571 by John Lyon, Yeoman of the parish; has a very low income allocation, with four exhibitions and two scholarships in universities; is open to all boys who are natives of the parish, and also receives foreign; is performed on the same system as Eton; and now has an approximately 500 researchers Archery was originally a part of school education, but has ceased to be in 1771. The original building, built about three years after the death of founder, still exists, and is a Tudor structure of red brick with stone trim; more commodious residences for undermaster and students in a Tudor-style comport with the original building are newly built; and a memorial library in honor of the distinguished director, Dr. Vaughan, and the designs of M. Scott, was erected in 1863 Queen Victoria visited the school in 1848. The present Archbishop of Canterbury was master; and antiquary Baxter, Sir W Jones, Sheridan, Dr. Parr, Bruce traveler, Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis of Hastings, Lord Byron, Lord Palmerston, Lord Dalhousie, Archbishop Trench and Lord Normanby were scholars Pop of the city, 1861 was less than 2, 000 sub-district includes the parishes of Harrow-on-the-Hill Acres and Pinner, 13, 590 Pop 7 374 houses, 1, 390.
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