Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PRIMROSE-HILL

PRIMROSE-HILL, an eminence in the N W of the metropolis; adjacent to the N W side of Regent's park, 3½ miles N W by N of St. Paul's. It is pierced through the N skirt, by a tunnel of the Northwestern railway, 3, 360 feet long; and it adjoins, on the S, Barrow hill, with the West Middlesex reservoir. P.-hill was the scene of the murder of Sir E. God frey in 1678.


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

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Feature Description: "an eminence"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Place: Primrose Hill

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