HAVERSTOCK-HILL, a metropolitan suburb and three chapelries, in St. Pancras and Hampstead parishes, Middlesex. The suburb lies immediately N of Primrose Hill, on the Midland railway, between the Northwestern railway and the Hampstead and City Junction railway, 4 miles NW of St. Pauls; and has a post office ‡ under London NW, and a railway station. 1t has undergone much recent extension; and it contains the Tailors, alms houses, in the Tudor style, with a chapel, - and the New Orphan Working school, in the Italian style, 145 feet by 80, built in 1848 by A. Anger. Belsize is in the W; and the manor of it belongs, by gift of the Brabazons, to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. A tunnel of the Northwestern railway, 1, 120 yards long, also a tunnel of the Hampstead and City Junction railway, are in the vicinity. Sedley and Steele lodged in this suburb.-The three chapelries are Holy Trinity, in St. Pancras parish, and St. Peters-Belsize and St. Saviour, in Hampstead parish; and the first was constituted in 1851, the last in 1856. Pop. in 1861, of H. T., 16, 821; of St. P., about 5, 000; of St. S., 2, 945. The livings of all are vicarages in the diocese of London. Value of H. T., £300; of St. P., £1, 000; of St. S., not reported. Patrons, of H. T., the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's; of St. P., the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; of St. S., the Vicar of Hampstead. H. T. church was built in 1850; is in the pointed style, 124 feet by 66; and has a spire 160 feet high. St. S. church was built in 1856, and is in the early English style. There are several chapels and schools. A Dominican priory was built in 1867, and was designed to have a large church.

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