“Tottenham is a parish and polling place for the county, about 5 miles north from London, in the hundred, union, and county court district of Edmonton, rural deanery of Enfield, archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, and in the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police. The river Lee bounds the eastern side of the parish, and separates it from the county of Essex. The Moselle rivulet rises at Muswell Hill on the west, and after a circuitous course through the parish, falls into the river Lee. The New River also flows through the parish by Wood Green. The Great Eastern Railway (Cambridge line) runs along the eastern part of the parish, having two stations, one at Tottenham Hale, the other at Northumberland Park: this company has also constructed a line to Enfield, on the west of the High Road, with three more stations in Tottenham parish. They have also constructed a branch line in connection with the above, branching from the Seven Sisters’ road station and extending to West Green, Green lanes and Wood Green. There is also the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, having a station at South Tottenham, near Stamford Hill, belonging to the Midland Company.

“The Church of All Hallows is a Gothic structure, about a quarter of a mile west of the High road: it consists of a chancel, nave, and aisles, separated from the nave by octagonal columns with Pointed arches: it has a square embattled tower covered with ivy, and 60 feet in height: a room over the south porch was occupied for forty years by Elizabeth Fleming, who died in 1790, at the age of 100; it is now used for a Sunday school: the vestry at the eastern end was built and endowed by Lord Coleraine, in 1696, upon condition that he and his family should possess the vault beneath: the building is circular, and originally had a dome and an obelisk, but these were removed in 1855, they having become decayed: the font is octagonal, ornamented with Gothic panels and quatrefoils, having in them roses, fleur-de-lis, a pelican, a mermaid, and a dragon; it is thought to have been made at the beginning of the fifteenth century: the eastern window contains representations of the Evangelists, with smaller figures of Isaiah, David, and Jeremiah: it was presented to the parish in 1807 by John Eardly Wilmot, esq.; there was also placed in the baptistery in 1854, by subscription, a window representing Our Saviour Blessing Little Children: there are six good-toned bells, which were re-cast by Philip Wightman, 1696; the vestry, or saints’ bell, was given to the parish by H. Jackson, Esq. in 1801, and was formerly the alarm bell of the garrison of Quebec: it was taken at the siege of that place in 1759, by General Townsend: the oldest tombstone in the church is inlaid with brass, and is in the north-east corner of the floor: it belongs to Thomas Hymingham, who died April 7, 1499; Margaret Lydia, wife of James Samuel, C. E., daughter of the Ettrick Shepherd, is buried in the churchyard. From ancient records it is ascertained that the church was given by David, King of Scotland, to the canons of the Holy Trinity, London, between the years 1135 and 1153; but Henry VIII, in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, gave the rectory and parish of Tottenham too the cathedral of St. Paul. The registers commence November 17, 1558. The living is a vicarage, tithes commuted at £800, with 8 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s cathedral, and held by the Rev. Alexander Wilson, M. A., of King’s College, Aberdeen. The first vicar mentioned in the history of Tottenham is Robert de Burton, 1327.

“St. Ann’s church, in St. Ann’s road, erected in 1861, at the sole cost of Fowler Newsam, esq., the patron; it is a handsome stone building, with spire, in the Early English style, and cost £12,000; it has a parsonage house, and the income is derived from the pew rents; the Rev. John Davis Letts, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the vicar.

“Other churches are Holy Trinity, on Tottenham Green: the living is a vicarage, yearly value £240, with vicarage house, in the gift of the vicar of Tottenham, and held by the Rev. William Charles Howell, M. A., of Brasenose College, Oxford.

“St. Paul’s church in Park lane; the living is a vicarage, yearly value £240, with vicarage house, in the gift of the vicar of Tottenham, and held by the Rev. Hugh M’Sorley, M. A., of Trinity College, Dublin.

“The Drapers’ College, in the High road, for sons of freemen of the Drapers’ Company, was erected in 1861; the company has a fine block of almshouses in Bruce grove.

“Fuller’s almshouses, founded by John Fuller, in 1592, for the poor of the parish of Shoreditch, stand on ground presented by W. Styles, formerly a contractor to that parish.

“The Cemetery was opened January 1, 1858: it contains two chapels, of Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings; the ground occupies 5 acres, of which two-thirds are consecrated and the remainder unconsecrated; the whole cost was £5000.

“William Curtis, esq., is lord of the manor.

“The Alexandra Palace is partly in this parish: particulars are given under Muswell hill.

“The parish contains 4, 462 acres, is 2 miles in length, and 16 in circumference; rateable value, £105, 302; in 1861 the population amounted to 13,240; and in 1871, 22, 869.

“Parish Clerk, George Filsell, 3 Providence place, Church road.”

Official Establishments, Local Institutions, &c.

POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, Tottenham High Cross. — Benjamin Martin, postmaster.
POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, Tottenham High road. — Jabez Ebenezer Eastman, receiver.
POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, Lower Tottenham. — Henry Woodcock, receiver.
POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Sutton terrace, St. Ann’s road. — John Morgan, receiver.
POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE& Savings Bank, 7 Montebello terrace, Philip lane, West green. — Jonathan Mose, receiver.

INSURANCE AGENTS:—

Commercial Union, E. Clarke, 2 Park villas, Philip lane: & W. S. Cooper, Saw mills.
Imperial Fire, E. W. Young, London & Provincial Bank, High road.
Liverpool, London & Globe, William B. Hunnings, vestry clerk, opposite Bruce grove; & J. Shepperd, Tottenham green.
Midland Counties, J. King, 6 Warner terrace, High road.
Queen, I. Avery, 6 Heybourne terrace.
Royal Exchange , C. Coventry, Nortumberland park & High road.
Sovereign Life, J. Colcock, High road.
Sun Fire, G. Richards, Lower Tottenham.
Whittington Life, H. Benjafield, High road.

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS &c:—

Collector of Rates, Septimus Fowler, Lordship lane.
Local Board of Health; offices, Coombes Croft house, High road; W. A. H. de Pape, surveyor; Edward Crowne, clerk; George Guy, inspector of nuisances.
Local Board of Health Water Works, Hale, W. A. H. de Pape, engineer; George Guy, inspector.
Medical Officers, Dr. W. T. Watson & C. T. Conolly.
New River Water Works, Hale, Thos. Webb, lodge keeper.
Tottenham & Edmonton General Dispensary, Richard Tattam. dispenser, High road.
Inland Revenue Office, Post office, High cross.
St. Ann’s Dispensary, (Dr. T. Gurney, surgeon), 4 adolphus Terrace, St. Ann’s road.
Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses’ Institute & Training Hospital, The Green, Dr. M. A. H. Laseron, hon. director.
Cemetery, Church road.
Lecture Hall, Public Library & Reading Room, High road, John William Clarke, secretary.
Drapers’ Company Female Orphan Asylum, Elmslea, Lordship lane, Miss Mary Wallder, lady superintendent.
The Hope of Tottenham Temperance Lodge, Scotland green, Mrs. Watts, housekeeper.
Bruce Castle Lodge of Oddfellows, Lecture Hall, High road.
Metropolitan Police Station, High road.
Tottenham Fire Brigade, Scotland green, John A. Clements, superintendent.

ALMSHOUSES:—

Pound, High road; Reynardson’s, High Cross; Drapers’ College, High road, Rev. Wm. Hall Richmond, M.A., head master & chaplain; Alderman Staines’, Church road; Balthazar Sanchez, High road; Drapers’, Bruce grove; & Sailmakers’, Bruce grove.

PUBLIC OFFICERS:—

Collectors of Poor Rate for Tottenham, Arthur Fowler, 2 Pereira villas, Somerset road.
Surveyor of Taxes, Thomas Seymour Harris, 21 Grove place, High road.
Beadle & Engine Keeper, John Fowler, High road.
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for Tottenham District , George Ross.
Vestry Clerk & Clerk to Burial Board, William Butters Hunnings, High road.

PLACES OF WORSHIP:—

All Hallows’ Church, Rev. Alexander Wilson, M.A., vicar.
St. Paul’s Church, Park Lane, Rev. Hugh McSorley, M.A., vicar.
Trinity District Church, Tottenham green, Rev. William Charles Howell, M.A., vicar.
St. Ann’s District Church, St. Ann’s road, Rev. John Davis Letts, M.A., vicar.
Catholic Chapel (St. Francis de Sales), High road, Rev. Henry T. Bradbee, priest.
St. John’s Prebyterian Church, High road, Rev. David Fotheringham, minister.
Baptist Chapel, High road, Rev. Robt. Wallace, minister.
Baptist Chapel, West green road, Rev. Geo. Turner, M.A., pastor.
Congregational Chapel, High Cross, Rev. Edward Hill, minister.
Friends’ Meeting House, High road.
Mission Room, Finsbury road, Wood Green, & Love lane, Tottenham Hale.
Wesleyan Chapel, High road, Rev. William R. C. Cockill, minister.
Christian Brethren’s Meeting House, Brooks street.
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Northumberland park, Rev. James W. Symons, minister.
City Mission Room, The Hale, George Heavingham, city missionary.
West Green Room (Chapel), West Green.
Primitive Methodist Mission Room, West Green.

SCHOOLS:—

British (girls), High road, Miss Emily M. Potter, mistress.
Blue Charity (girls), High road, Miss Emily Dallyn, mistress.
British (day & Sunday), West Green, Miss Brown, mistress.
Catholic (mixed), High road, Miss Julia Lynch, mistress.
Hermitage (girls), St. Ann’s road, Miss Emma Carr, mistress.
Grammar, High cross, Henry Chettle, master.
Lancasterian (for boys), Church road, Geo. P. Cochrane, master.
National (St. Paul’s) (boys), Park lane, John Moule, master; (girls) Mrs. Harriet Plegg, mistress.
National, Willow road, West Green, Miss Sarah Ann Humphreys, mistress.
Infant (Hermitage), Avenue road, Miss Eliza Carme, mistress.
Infant (All Hallows’), Love lane, Miss Ashton, mistress.
Infant (girls), High road, Miss Alice Ashton, mistress.
Infant (Holy Trinity), Green, Miss Jackson, mistress.
St. John’s (middle class), High road, William Cameron, head master.
Tottenham & Edmonton Free, Union row, Lower Tottenham, Alfred Roskill, master.
Infant (British), Hale, Miss Elizabeth Foster, mistress.
Green School (for girls), Somerset road, Miss Phœbe Morley, mistress.
Wesleyan Chapel (Sunday), High road.
St. Ann’s (for boys), Avenue road, George Everett Kempton, master.
Girls’ Industrial Orphan Home, Union row, Lower Tottenham, Deaconess Sarah Smare, managing sister.

NEWSPAPERS:—

Tottenham & Edmonton Advertiser (published monthly), Cornelius Coventry, proprietor & publisher, Lower Tottenham.
Tottenham & Edmonton Weekly Herald, Edwin Herbert Crusha, publisher, High road, Lower Tottenham.

RAILWAY STATIONS:—

Bruce Grove , James Garrard, station master.
Hale , High Cross lane, James Eli Hawkins, station master.
Park , James Hartin, station master.
Seven Sisters, Henry Lipscott, station master.
South Tottenham, John Murphy, station master.
White Hart Lane, William Brooks, station master.
Green Lanes, William Frost, station master.
West Green, John Atkins, station master.

WATER CONVEYANCE:—

Bishop’s Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Ware &c. barges to & from London pass within half a mile of the town.

CARRIERS TO LONDON:—

Several, daily.