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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Portland Town like this:
PORTLAND-TOWN, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry in Marylebone parish, Middlesex. The suburblies W of Regent's park and S of the Northwestern railway, 3½ miles N W by W of St. Paul's; and has post-offices‡ under London N W. The chapelry was constituted in 1849. Pop., 9, 621. Houses, 1, 310. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £500. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church was built in 1849, by Daukes; and is in the early English style.
Portland Town is now part of CAMDEN District. Click here for graphs and data of how CAMDEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Portland Town itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Portland Town, in Camden and Middlesex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23887
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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