In
the late eighteenth century Edgware, some eight miles from London on
the high road to St Albans, consisted on one wide and long, but ill-built,
street. It had formerly a market on Thursday, which had for some time
been discontinued.
The
church (seen above) was situated near the centre of the town and on
the border of the high road. Its ancient structure was virtually completely
rebuilt in 1764 (although the tower remained the medieval stone and
flint construction).
There
was an almshouse for poor women founded in Edgware in 1680.
