Edgware, a village of Middlesex, 11½ miles NW. of King's Cross station, stretching for about a mile along the highway. In a forge here, where he had taken refuge from the rain, Handel conceived his 'Harmonious Blacksmith.' Pop. 816.
Edgware
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 198
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