Southall Green St John

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SOUTHALL, a chapelry, with a village, in Hayes parish, Middlesex; on the Great Western railway, 3½ miles NW of Brentwood. It has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, an inn, and a week1y cattle market on Wednesday. Pop., 474. Houses, 85. There are several good residences, and a large private lunatic asylum. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £50.* Patron, not reported. The church was built in 1838. There are national schools.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))