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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "LONDON COLNEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALBANS (St.)	Hertfordshire	ALBANS (St.) , a town, three parishes, a subdistrict, and a district in Herts. The town stands near the southern extension	Imperial
  BARNET-FRYERN	Middlesex	Colney-Hatch r. station, and 3 miles SSE of Barnet. It contains the hamlet of Colney-Hatch, and part of the village of Whetstone; both of which have post offices under London	Imperial
  BOUNDS-GREEN	Middlesex	Northern railway, 1 mile SE of Colney Hatch r. station. It has a post office under Colney Hatch, London, N.	Imperial
  BROWNS-WELLS	Middlesex	Colney-Hatch r. station, and 7 NNW of St. Paul's, London. The Islington and St. Pancras cemeteries are adjacent	Imperial
  CLERKENWELL	Middlesex	Colney-Hatch-lane. Acres, 380. Real property, £347, 544. Pop., in 1841, 56, 756; in 1861, 65, 681. Houses, 7, 088. Most of the area is densely covered with six squares and numerous streets; inhabited by some of the best paid and best informed artisans in London	Imperial
  COLNEY-HATCH	Middlesex	COLNEY-HATCH , a hamlet in Fryern-Barnet parish, Middlesex, 1¼ mile W of the Great Northern railway, and 3¼ SSE of Barnet. It has a post office under London	Imperial
  COLNEY-ST. PETER, or London-Colney	Hertfordshire London	COLNEY-ST. PETER , or London-Colney, a chapelry in the parishes of St. Peter, Ridge, and Shenley, Herts; on the river	Imperial
  HILL-END	Hertfordshire London	HILL-END , a hamlet in London-Colney chapelry, Herts; 1½ mile NE of London-Colney.	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	London cemetery, at Little Ilford; the Tower Hamlets, at Mile-End-road; the North of London, at Colney-Hatch; the Kensal	Imperial
  London Colney	Hertfordshire	London Colney , hamlet, on SE. border of Herts, 3 miles SE. of St Albans; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Nast Hyde	Hertfordshire	Nast Hyde , hamlet, 2m. NE. of London Colney, Herts.	Bartholomew
  NAST-HYDE	Hertfordshire London	NAST-HYDE , a hamlet in London-Colney chapelry, Herts; 2 miles N E of London-Colney village.	Imperial
  RIDGE	Hertfordshire	London-Colney. Acres, 3, 607. Real property, £5, 653. Pop., 437. Houses, 90. The property is divided among a few. The manor	Imperial
  WHETSTONE	Middlesex	Colney-Hatch r. station, and 2 SSE of Barnet. It was constituted in 1836; and it has a post-office‡ under London	Imperial

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