KENTISH-TOWN, a chapelry in the parish of
ST-PANCRAS, Holborn division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 3 miles (N.) from
London. The population is returned with the parish.
This is a pleasant and populous village between London
and Highgate; it consists of several handsome detached
houses, with gardens and lawns, and a line of buildings
along the road, which is not regularly paved, but
lighted with gas. To the south of the village passes
the Paddington canal, on the banks of which are coal
wharfs; there is a public brewery, and the adjoining
fields are chiefly occupied by cow-keepers. The chapel
is a neat modern building. There are places of worship
for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A National
school for three hundred children of both sexes, belonging
to this place and Camden Town, is supported
by subscription.