NORWOOD, a precinct and chapelry (parochial) in
the hundred of ELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 2
miles (N. by W.) from Hounslow, contaiiiing 1124 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to
the vicarage of Hayes, in the exempt deanery of Croydon,
which is in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, endowed with £210 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The chapel has
received an addition of three hundred and sixty free
sittings, towards defraying the expense of which the
Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels contributed £300.