GREENFORD, a parish in the hundred of ELTHORNE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 4 miles (N. by E.)
from Hounslow, containing 415 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, within the jurisdiction of the Commissary
of London, concurrently with the Bishop, rated in the
king's books at £20, and in the patronage of the Provost
and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The
church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is built of flints,
with a low wooden spire at the west end; some of the
windows are ornamented with stained glass. The Rev.
Edward Terry, chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe, in his embassy
to the Great Mogul, of which he published an
account, was rector of this parish; he died here in
1660, and was buried in the church. There is a place
of worship for Baptists.