PENTONVILLE, a chapelry in the parish of ST-JAMES-CLERKENWELL,
Finsbury division of the hundred
of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX. The population
is returned with the parish. The chapel, a neat
edifice, was erected in 1791, since which period a considerable
number of streets has been formed, and it
now constitutes one of the most populous and respectable
suburbs of the metropolis; a further description of
which is given in the article on CLERKENWELL.