Editing Edgware

{{Short description|Suburban town in Borough of Barnet, London}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| region = London
| official_name = Edgware
| coordinates = {{coord|51.6185|-0.2729|display=inline,title}}
| population = 58,619
| population_ref = ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]]<ref>Harrow’s Canons and Edgware wards and Barnet’s Burnt Oak and Edgware wards, 2011 census. {{cite web|url=http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop |title=2011 Census Ward Population Estimates &#124; London DataStore |access-date=9 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222202755/http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop |archive-date=22 February 2014  }}</ref> Estimate)
| london_borough = Barnet
| constituency_westminster = [[Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)|Hendon]]
| post_town = EDGWARE
| postcode_area = HA
| postcode_district = HA8
| post_town1 = LONDON
| postcode_area1 = NW
| postcode_district1 = NW7
| dial_code = 020
| os_grid_reference = TQ195925
| charingX_distance_mi = 10
| charingX_direction = SE
| static_image_name = St Margaret's of Antioch - geograph.org.uk - 5292026.jpg
| static_image_caption = [[St Margaret of Antioch, Edgware]]
| london_borough1 = Brent
| london_borough4 = Harrow
}}
'''Edgware''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛ|dʒ|w|ɛər|}}) is a suburban town in northwest [[London]]. It was an [[ancient parish]] in the county of [[Middlesex]] east of the ancient [[Watling Street]] in what is now the [[London Borough of Barnet]] but it is now informally considered to cover a wider area, including parts of the boroughs of [[London Borough of Harrow|Harrow]] and [[London Borough of Brent|Brent]].<ref>Both Barnet and Harrow have Edgware wards. The HA8 postal area associated with Edgware includes parts of Barnet, Harrow and Brent.</ref> The district is located {{convert|10|mi}} north-northwest of [[Charing Cross]] and has a generally suburban character. The urban-rural fringe includes some elevated woodland on a high gravel and sand ridge along the [[Hertfordshire]] border with Greater London.

Edgware is principally a shopping and residential area, identified in the [[London Plan]] as one of the capital's 35 major centres, and one of the northern termini of the [[Northern line]]. It has a [[Edgware bus garage|bus garage]], a shopping centre called the [[Broadwalk Centre]], [[List of libraries in Barnet|a library]], a [[community hospital]], Edgware Community Hospital, and two streams, [[Silk Stream|Edgware Brook]] and [[Deans Brook]] which merge and become known as the [[Silk Stream]], itself a tributary of the [[River Brent]].

As of 2011, the town had a population of 58,619.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edgware - Hidden London |url=https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/edgware/ |access-date=18 January 2023 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Toponymy==
Edgware is an [[Old English]] place-name first recorded in the 970s as Aegces wer, meaning Ecgi's weir. Ecgi is a [[Saxon]] name and the weir relates to a pond where his people would catch fish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Edgware|title = Key to English Place-names}}</ref><ref>The Place Names of Middlesex, English Place Names Society, Mawer and Stenton, 1942</ref> The name was subsequently applied to the ancient parish of Edgware.

A legal record of 1422 mentions "Eggeswer", in Middlesex, which, being in Latin, may have been written deliberately using an older form of the spelling.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AALT Page |url=http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/bCP40no647dorses/IMG_0495.htm |access-date=18 January 2023 |website=aalt.law.uh.edu}}</ref> By 1489, and the beginning of the [[Tudor period]] those writing the name added the "d" and it was Edggeware.

==Administration and boundaries==
===Administration===
Edgware was an [[ancient parish]] of {{convert|2089|acres|km2}} in the county of [[Middlesex]]. 

Edgware parish was part of a grouping of parishes called [[Hendon Rural District]] (which didn't include Hendon) from 1894.<ref>Vision of Britain – [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025874&c_id=10001043 Hendon Rural District] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001030136/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025874&c_id=10001043 |date=1 October 2007 }}</ref> In 1931 Edgware moved from Hendon Rural District to the separate Hendon Urban District which did include Hendon.

The following year Hendon Urban District became the [[Municipal Borough of Hendon]]. In 1965 the Borough of Hendon merged with the [[Municipal Borough of Finchley]], the urban districts of Barnet, East Barnet and Friern Barnet to become the new [[London Borough of Barnet]].

===Boundaries and scope===
The Ancient parish formally defined the extent of Edgware for over 800 years, but the district is now sometimes perceived as covering a wider area.

====Ancient Parish====
[[Civil parish#Ancient parishes|Ancient parishes]] served one or more manors (occasionally very large manors would be divided into more than one parish). The boundaries of these underlying manors occasionally changed through subinfeudation (sub-division), and parish boundaries might sometimes change with that, but in 1180 the parish boundaries were frozen, so that sub-division of parishes was unusual after that time, usually only occurring in rapidly developing urban areas.<ref name=or>History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham, 1986 p19</ref> 

The ancient parish served by St Margaret's church was bounded to the west by Roman [[Watling Street]] with the parish of Little Stanmore beyond it. South of [[Deans Brook]] and Edgware Brook to the south and east was [[Hendon]]. ''Ecgi's Weir'', which gave the district its name is likely to have been built on one of these boundary brooks.

The parish appears to have inherited a much older boundary along these brooks, as these are described as part of the boundary of an estate in neighbouring Hendon.<ref>Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld, D C Yaxley, 'Edgware: Introduction', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn, R B Pugh( London, 1971), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp151-155 [accessed 21 August 2024].</ref><ref>The Place Names of Middlesex, English Place Names Society, Mawer and Stenton, 1942</ref> 

The parish's northern boundary with the parish of Elstree, was also that of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. Middlesex's northern boundary was, in this area, marked by a 20 kilometre [[hedge]] of great antiquity. When still unfragmented, the hedge extended from the River Colne (Middlesex's western boundary) to [[Barnet Gate Wood]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rippon|first1=Stephen|title=Kingdom, Civitas and County|date=2018 |orig-year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-875937-9|pages=320–321}}</ref> This boundary of Middlesex with Hertfordshire was inherited, in part, by the new [[Greater London]] in 1965. 

The area of Edgware was consistent and in the 1930s measured as {{convert|3.26|mi2}}.<ref name="bh">{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22453 |title=Edgware: Introduction |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=J. S. |editor2-last=Cockburn |editor3-first=R. B. |editor3-last=Pugh |author1-first=Diane K. |author1-last=Bolton |author2-first=H. P. F. |author2-last=King |author3-first=Gillian |author3-last=Wyld |author4-first=D. C. |author4-last=Yaxley |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1971 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 |access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref>

====Electoral wards====
Both Barnet and Harrow have electoral wards named Edgware. The ward in Harrow was called ''South Stanmore'' until 2002.<ref>London Borough of Harrow (Electoral Changes) Order 2000</ref> Electoral wards are regularly altered to ensure a consistent number of electors per ward across a local authority area.

====Postal area====
Edgware is part of the [[HA postcode area]], named after nearby [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], of the London [[post town]].<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'' (2004)</ref> More specifically Edgware is part of the HA8 postcode locality, associated with Edgware, but which covers a much wider area including [[Burnt Oak]], [[The Hale]], [[Canons Park]], and parts of [[Queensbury, London|Queensbury]]. In this way HA8 take in part of the boroughs of Barnet, Harrow and Brent. Postcode areas are an operational convenience for the Royal Mail, and not intended to define districts.

Some eastern streets are in the [[NW postcode area]].

==History==
===Origins and pre-industrial history===
The [[Roman Empire|Romans]] made pottery at [[Brockley Hill]], thought by some to be the site of [[Sulloniacis]].  

Edgware does not appear in the [[Domesday Book|Domesday]] survey of 1086. A manorial centre has, since at least 1216, been {{mmukscaled|TQ192942|25|Edgwarebury Farm}}. 

Edgware Road follows the same line as the ancient [[Watling Street]], an important Roman Road, and used in the medieval period by pilgrims. The Road was improved by the Edgware-Kilburn [[turnpike trust]] in 1711, and a number of the local inns functioned as a stop for coaches. By 1867 a railway line had been built between Edgware and [[Finsbury Park railway station|Finsbury Park]] and a station was built. [[James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos]] built a stately home called [[Cannons (house)|Cannons]] in nearby Little Stanmore, around 1713 for £250,000 ({{Inflation|UK|250000|1713|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) and was by far the wealthiest resident in the vicinity at that time. 

By the 17th century Edgware had a small market selling cattle driven from other parts of England and fattened and sold locally. Local trades included butchers, tailors, colliers (charcoal sellers) and brewers. The market was held every week but petered out in 1790s.<ref name=barnet>[http://www.barnet.gov.uk/info/940045/edgware_and_burnt_oak/745/edgware_and_burnt_oak Edgware & Burnt Oak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015054518/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/info/940045/edgware_and_burnt_oak/745/edgware_and_burnt_oak |date=15 October 2014 }} London Borough of Barnet</ref>

Edgware was associated with the highwayman [[Dick Turpin]]. The infamous scene of his worst incident, which happened on 4 February 1735, was when five gang members, including Turpin, broke into a farmhouse owned by Joseph Lawrence, called Earlsbury Farm. Lawrence was at least 70 (so considered fairly old) and yet Turpin et al. beat him with their pistols and tortured him by setting him on a fire whilst naked, before announcing that they would amputate his legs. While this was going on, the leader of the gang took a servant girl upstairs and raped her.<ref name=Barlow>{{cite book|last1=Barlow|first1=Derek|title=Dick Turpin and the Gregory Gang|date=1973|publisher=Phillimore|isbn=0900592648|pages=85–92}}</ref>

===Early economic history===
Industry played a minor role in the economy of Edgware. There was a cattle and pleasure fair from 1760s to 1860s with horse racing between 1834 and 1855.<ref name=ec/> Ribbon development along this part of the A5 road included development in the parish of Edgware to the east of the road, and Little Stanmore to the west of it.<ref name="bh"/>

Gravel pits were probably being worked by 1802 and certainly by 1834, partly at least by the labour of the able-bodied poor as a parish employment, and in 1963 gravel was still being extracted on the eastern side of the parish. In 1831 there were no persons engaged in manufacturing in the parish, and in fact there were no industries until in 1900 the firm of Chas. Wright Ltd., manufacturing engineers, moved from [[Clerkenwell]]: employed for the UK government in [[World War I]] and after this it struck 2,000,000 [[Mons Star|Mons or 1914 Star]]s and [[Victory Medal (United Kingdom)|Victory Medal]]s. Its largest production in [[World War II]] was for the metal parts of respirator filters: making 94½ million between 1937 and 1943. In 1963 the company was chiefly engaged in the manufacture of car registration plates. There were 70 workmen employed, together with an office staff of 30. The firm of A.E.W. Ltd., founded in 1923 and established in Edgware in 1927, at the start of the 1970s employed 50 people and manufactured laboratory and industrial electric ovens and furnaces.<ref name=ec>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22455 |title=Edgware: Economic and social history |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=J. S. |editor2-last=Cockburn |editor3-first=R. B. |editor3-last=Pugh |author1-first=Diane K. |author1-last=Bolton |author2-first=H. P. F. |author2-last=King |author3-first=Gillian |author3-last=Wyld |author4-first=D. C. |author4-last=Yaxley |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1971 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 |access-date=5 November 2014 }}</ref>

{{blockquote|This place, from its situation within an easy distance of the metropolis, and the excellence of the road to it through an almost uninterrupted succession of elegant villas and agreeable scenery, has become the residence of numerous opulent and respectable families.|[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|S. Lewis]]|''A Topographical Dictionary of England'', 1848<ref>Lewis, S. (1848). ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''. London: Samuel Lewis, p.145.</ref>}}

Edgware had few residents for its size but saw some prosperous commerce: in 1870, for instance, there were six [[insurance industry|insurance]] agents in the village. The opening of the Great Northern Railway branch in 1867, however, seems to have had little effect on the expansion of the village, and plans to extend the railway met with strong local opposition. A Bill to establish a line from Watford to Edgware, brought before Parliament in 1896 and 1897, was opposed by residents, and it was said that the real harm of the railways was the opening up of building sites 'which are quickly covered with architectural atrocities'. In this time the parish had begun to display a tendency to split into an opulent north and a workaday south, separated by an agricultural [[buffer zone]]. By 1896 several large houses had been built in the Elstree area or along the Elstree&ndash;[[Chipping Barnet|Barnet]] road, while the old village gained the post office, the infants' school, the station, and the Railway Hotel. The southern part of the parish was unable to repel the tide of suburban development, but the threatened distinction was to a large extent averted by the quality of buildings between the two world wars.<ref name=ec/>

===Suburban transformation===
[[File:Edgware, The Railway public house - geograph.org.uk - 1421419.jpg|thumb|Grade II listed, former [[Railway Hotel, Edgware|Railway Hotel]] on Station Road]]
[[File:Station Road, Edgware.jpg|thumb|right|Station Road, Edgware.]]
The first (non-tube connected) railway accompanied a brief decline in population. By the mid 19th century the area was almost entirely for the purpose of hay production. In 1939 the overground railway passenger service ceased to run, and goods traffic ceased by 1964. A tram service began in 1904.<ref name=barnet/> In 1921 the population was 1,516. Although much suburban development was encouraged by the opening of the [[Edgware tube station|tube station]] in 1924, the area was already attracting developers like George Cross to the area by 1919. The conurbation increased as far north as the Edgware Way. In 1932 the parish became a part of [[Hendon Urban District]]. The shopping district around Station Road developed to include the Ritz Cinema, which opened in May 1932. Following several name changes the cinema was eventually demolished in 2001 and replaced by a large gym, apartments and a [[Caffè Nero]]. The [[Edgware Town F.C.]] was founded in 1939 after a predecessor team in 1915.<ref name=barnet/>

A [[general hospital]] on Burnt Oak Broadway dates back to an [[wikt:infirmary|infirmary]] that was added at a [[workhouse]] from the Hendon Board of Guardians in 1865, with an all new site adjacent to it built and opened with 175 beds in December 1927 as Redhill Hospital. It was extended greatly by [[Middlesex County Council]] in the late 1930s. It became part of the [[National Health Service]] in 1948 and was renamed Edgware General Hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/30fd3ce9-575d-4a2d-8ce4-d44e698812e3|title=Edgware General Hospital|via=The National Archives (UK)}}</ref>

Post-war development has been restricted by the [[Metropolitan Green Belt]], sparing [[urban sprawl]] into the Scratch Wood and Deacons Hill areas apart from the [[M1 motorway]]. By this time the population was more than 17,000. In 1990, the Mall Shopping Centre, originally called the Broadwalk Shopping Centre, replaced the former Edgware Town station pulled down in 1961.

Following a review in 1994, Edgware General Hospital was controversially closed by the Conservative government of [[John Major]] in April 1997 despite public opposition.<ref name="ezitis.myzen.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/edgware.html|title = Lost_Hospitals_of_London}}</ref> After the Labour Party election victory the closure was upheld, leading to further outcry from the public. Eventually a review and lengthy consultations took place with local campaigners and authorities, which resulted in the building of a [[community hospital]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/38420.green-light-hospital/?ref=arc|title = Green light for hospital| date=7 March 2001 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/6317469.work-starts-on-375m-community-hospital/|title=Work starts on £37.5m community hospital|website=News Shopper|date=10 July 2002 }}</ref> Some of the General Hospital site was demolished and Edgware Community Hospital, which cost £38 million, opened in its place in February 2005.<ref name="ezitis.myzen.co.uk"/>

Edgware was identified in 2008 as a major centre for preferred development in the London Plan.<ref name=london_plan_f08>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |author=Mayor of London |author-link=Mayor of London |publisher=[[Greater London Authority]] |title=London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004) |date=February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602000714/http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |archive-date=2 June 2010 }}</ref>

In the mid-2010s, many new apartments have been built on Green Lane.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cityam.com/new-homes-hoping-entice-families-live-leafy-london/|title = New homes hoping to entice families to live in leafy London|date = 10 October 2013}}</ref>

==Geography==
Edgware town centre lies about {{convert|60|m|order=flip}} above sea level. Much of Edgware is steep, particularly around [[Edgwarebury Park]] (a [[Site of Nature Conservation Interest]]) and the [[Broadfields Estate]].

The [[Edgwarebury Brook]] (not to be confused with the ''Edgware Brook''), is a tributary of Deans Brook. 
The [[Deans Brook]] and ''Edgware Brook'', which form the historic southern boundary of the area, merge and take the name [[Silk Stream]] in the vicinity of Edgware Hospital (known as Redhill Hospital till 1948). The Silk Stream is a tributary of the [[River Brent]], which it meets at [[Brent Reservoir]]. 

Open spaces in the area include [[Edgwarebury Park]] and [[Stoneyfields Park]]. 

Major roads in the vicinity include the A5, the [[A41 road]] (Watford Bypass) and the [[M1 motorway]]. The A5 Road (originally the Roman Watling Street) runs from central London by way of Edgware and onto [[Wroxeter]] in Shropshire. The Road is known as the ''High Street'', ''Stone Grove'' and ''Brockley Hill'' as it runs along the Edgware/Little Stanmore parish boundary; immediately south of that boundary it is known as ''Burnt Oak Broadway''. Further south it is known as [[Edgware Road]], meaning ''the road to Edgware''.

{{Geographic Location
|title     = Neighbouring areas
|Northwest = [[Stanmore]]
|North     = [[Elstree]]
|Northeast = [[Borehamwood]]
|West      = [[Queensbury, London|Queensbury]]
|Centre    = Edgware
|East      = [[Mill Hill]]
|Southwest = [[Queensbury, London|Kingsbury]]
|South     = [[Burnt Oak]]
|Southeast = [[Hendon]]
}}

==Demography and religion==
{| class="wikitable" align="right" style=font-size:85%;margin-left:10px; 
|+'''Edgware (parish) population'''
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1881
| style="text-align:center;"| 816
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1891
| style="text-align:center;"| 864
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1901 
| style="text-align:center;"| 868
|-  
! style="text-align:center;"| 1911 
| style="text-align:center;"| 1,233
|- 
! style="text-align:center;"| 1921 
| style="text-align:center;"| 1,516
|-
| colspan=2| Absorbed by Hendon parish [[Hendon|►]]
|- 
| colspan="2" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"|source: [[Census#United Kingdom|UK census]]
|}
[[File:Edgware station menorah.JPG|thumb|right|[[Hanukkah]] [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|menorah]] outside [[Edgware tube station|Edgware Underground station]], 2006]]
Until the 20th century there were no major rises in the population of Edgware. In the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Edgware in 1277 there were eight free tenants (excluding the Grand Priory of Clerkenwell) and 52 customary tenants (assumed to all be men); the survey from which these figures are taken, however, includes lands appurtenant to the manor lying in Kingsbury. In 1425–26 the manor of Edgware had three free and 29 customary tenants in the parish, and in 1525–26 the numbers were two or three free and 26 customary tenants. In 1547 there were 120 (adult or teenage) [[Holy Communion|communicants]] in the parish. In 1597 there were between 60 and 70 houses in the parish, and 44 more in the village of Edgware but on the west side of Watling Street and therefore in the parish of [[Little Stanmore]]. In 1599 there were six free and 25 customary tenants of the manor within Edgware. In 1642 in the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] the [[Protestation of 1641|protestation]] oath of 1641 was taken by 103 adult males. In 1664 there were 73 houses in the parish, but the [[hearth tax]] of 1672 gives only 66. During the 18th century the average numbers both of baptisms and burials declined gently but steadily; in the period 1717–26 the average number of baptisms was between 15 and 16 a year and the average number of burials 20, but by 1801–10 the figures were 11 and 9, respectively. There were said to be 69 houses in the village in 1766 and 76 houses in 1792. At the first census in 1801 the population was 412. Throughout the 19th century numbers rose slowly, except for the years between 1851 and 1871; the censuses of 1861 and 1871 show successive declines of 7 percent, attributed in 1871 to migration and to the absence of direct trains to London.<ref name="bh" />

Ten years later the losses had been more than made good, and in 1901 the figure of 868 had been reached. By 1921 the population had grown to 1,516, but the great infilling of the southern part of Edgware after 1924 caused the most spectacular increase. In 1931 the population was 5,352; this had increased to 17,513 by 1951 and to 20,127 by 1961.<ref name="bh" />

As well as Christian and subsequent settling of other religious groups, Edgware's development coincided with that of its Jewish community,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22460 |title=Edgware: Jews |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=J. S. |editor2-last=Cockburn |editor3-first=R. B. |editor3-last=Pugh |author1-first=Diane K. |author1-last=Bolton |author2-first=H. P. F. |author2-last=King |author3-first=Gillian |author3-last=Wyld |author4-first=D. C. |author4-last=Yaxley |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1971 |access-date=5 November 2014 }}</ref> currently forming the largest single religious group.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-first-eruv-enclave-for-jews-divides-local-opinion-638639.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302190538/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-first-eruv-enclave-for-jews-divides-local-opinion-638639.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 March 2009 |title= Britain's first 'eruv' enclave for Jews divides local opinion | newspaper=The Independent |date= 3 August 2002 |access-date=26 February 2009 | location=London | first=Cahal | last=Milmo}}</ref> In the 2001 Census, 36% of Edgware residents give their religion as Jewish, 28% Christian, 9% Hindu and 5% Muslim.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barnet.gov.uk/census-profile-edgware.pdf |title=see Barnet Census Profile |access-date=30 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062412/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/census-profile-edgware.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Jewish community in Edgware has constructed its own [[Eruv]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edgwareeruv.org |title=The Edgware Eruv |publisher=The Edgware Eruv |date=17 October 2006 |access-date=30 June 2011}}</ref>

Edgware has a strong Jewish character, and also has significant Hindu and Muslim minorities, mostly of Indian origin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/edgware/|title = Edgware - Hidden London}}</ref>

According to the 2011 census:

*Edgware ward of Barnet was 60% white (47% British, 12% Other White, 1% Irish). 13% was Indian and 7% Black African. 33% of the population was Jewish, 28% Christian and 11% Muslim. The most spoken foreign language is Gujarati.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/edgware-e05000050|title=Edgware – UK Census Data 2011|first=Good Stuff IT|last=Services|website=UK Census Data|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111142659/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/edgware-e05000050|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Hale ward of Barnet (east from the centre) was 59% white (45% British, 12% Other, 2% Irish) and 10% Indian. 39% was Christian and 19% Jewish. The most spoken foreign language is Gujarati followed by Persian and Romanian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hale-e05000054|title=Hale – UK Census Data 2011|first=Good Stuff IT|last=Services|website=UK Census Data|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111142656/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hale-e05000054|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Economy==
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[[File:The Broadwalk Shopping Centre, Edgware - geograph.org.uk - 251412.jpg|thumb|The [[Broadwalk Centre]], located in the town centre. It was opened in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebroadwalkcentre.co.uk/Information/About-Us |title=The Broadwalk Centre Edgware &#124; About Us |access-date=5 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202061949/http://www.thebroadwalkcentre.co.uk/Information/About-Us |archive-date=2 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
[[File:Green Shield House.jpg|thumb|Premier House on Station Road - formerly Green Shield House, headquarters of [[Green Shield Stamps]]]]
[[Argonaut Games]] once had its head office in Edgware.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argonaut.com/html/body_argonaut_has_moved_.htm|title=Argonaut Contact information|publisher=[[Argonaut Games]]|date=13 January 1998|access-date=9 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980113111227/http://www.argonaut.com/html/body_argonaut_has_moved_.htm|archive-date=13 January 1998}} "Argonaut House 369 Burnt Oak Broadway Edgware Middlesex HA8 5XZ"</ref> They were in Argonaut House, now known as Cavendish House. The computer game [[Worms (1995 video game)|''Worms'']] was designed there and contracts came from Nintendo.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Atari ST games /{{!}}\ AtariCrypt|url=https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2018/02/|access-date=19 February 2022|website=ataricrypt.blogspot.com}}</ref>

[[Green Shield Stamps]] was also headquartered in Edgware until its closure in 1991. It occupied Premier House<ref>{{Cite web|title=ERINASTAR LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01239183/officers|access-date=19 February 2022|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref> who commenced its development in 2014 into 121 residential flats, now subject to dispute by current residents over the Grenfell type of cladding used in the development. Premier House residential is known as Premier Place.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Premier House, Edgware fire safety update {{!}} Property Partner Blog {{!}} Latest News|url=https://www.propertypartner.co/blog/premier-house-fire-safety/|access-date=19 February 2022|language=en}}</ref>

==Media==
Local news in Edgware is provided by the weekly printed or online boroughwide ''[[Times series (north London)|Times]]'' series.

==Education==
{{Main|List of schools in the London Borough of Barnet}}

*[[London Academy]]
*Beit Shvidler Primary School
*[[Holland House School]]
*Broadfields Primary School
*Deansbrook Primary School
*[[Krishna Avanti Primary School, Harrow]]
*[[North London Collegiate School]]
*Rosh Pinah Primary School
*Edgware Junior School
*[[Canons High School]]

==Transport==
[[File:Station Road, Edgware - geograph.org.uk - 1794402.jpg|thumb|right|A view of Station Road with St Margaret of Antioch Church can be seen in the background.]]
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=== Tube ===
[[File:Edgware tube station 044 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Edgware tube station]]
Like most parts of northwest London, Edgware is served very well by the [[London Underground]] and there are four stations serving the area:

*{{tubestation|Edgware}} ([[Northern line]])
*{{tubestation|Burnt Oak}} ([[Northern line]])
*{{tubestation|Canons Park}} ([[Jubilee line]])
*{{tubestation|Queensbury}} ([[Jubilee line]])

===Buses===
[[File:Edgware bus station, London, 18 June 2011.jpg|thumb|right|[[Edgware bus station]].]]
Fifteen day [[London Buses]] serve Edgware, along with three night services, three school services, and two non-TfL routes operated by [[Uno (bus company)|Uno]].

==Sport==
[[Edgware Cricket Club]], based at Canons Park, play Saturday and Sunday League cricket during the summer months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edgware.play-cricket.com|title=EdgwareCricketClub|date=24 March 2015|access-date=7 March 2017}}</ref> [[Edgware Town F.C.]] is a football club that represents Edgware, but they are currently based in [[Kingsbury, London|Kingsbury]].

==Notable people==
{{More citations needed|date=June 2022}}
{{Main|List of people from Barnet}}
*[[Nicolas Anelka]] — footballer, when playing for [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Nicolas Anelka]]}}
*[[Anita Asante]] — footballer{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Anita Asante]]}}
*[[John Bercow]] — former [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] and MP for Buckingham<ref name="Cooke 2019">{{cite news|last=Cooke|first=Rachel|author-link=Rachel Cooke|date=10 November 2019|title=John Bercow: 'I may be pompous and an irritant. But I am completely authentic'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/10/john-bercow-interview-i-may-be-pompous-but-i-am-completely-authentic|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=4 August 2023}}</ref>
*[[Boz Boorer]] — guitarist, producer, co-writer and musical director for [[Morrissey]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FuvkmaRCPUC&pg=PA41|title=Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths|last=Goddard|first=Simon|year=2014|page=41|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781407028842|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Eleanor Bron]] — actress{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Eleanor Bron]]}}
*[[Max Bygraves]] — singer, comedian and actor{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Max Bygraves]]}}
*[[Paul Chowdhry]] — stand-up comedian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/04/paul-chowdhry-people-write-this-abuse-to-me-and-ive-just-got-to-take-it|title=Paul Chowdhry: 'People write this abuse to me, and I've just got to take it?'|last=Saner|first=Emine|date=4 August 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229222037/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/04/paul-chowdhry-people-write-this-abuse-to-me-and-ive-just-got-to-take-it|archive-date=29 December 2022|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Antony Costa]] — singer from boy band [[Blue (boy band)|Blue]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/23697358.antony-costa-blue-star-mamma-mia-party-o2/|title=Antony Costa of Blue to star in Mamma Mia! The Party at O2|last=Marsh|first=Alex|work=This Is Local London|date=3 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803220018/https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/23697358.antony-costa-blue-star-mamma-mia-party-o2/|archive-date=3 August 2023|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Tony Currie (footballer)|Tony Currie]] — footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/19624/Tony_Currie.html|title=Tony Currie|work=National Football Teams|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314132711/https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/19624/Tony_Currie.html|archive-date=14 March 2020|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Sope Dirisu]] — actor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/joe-cole-sope-dirisu-interview|title=Meet Joe Cole and Sope Dirisu, your new favourite figures of the underworld|work=TimeOut|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511084158/https://www.timeout.com/london/joe-cole-sope-dirisu-interview|archive-date=11 May 2021|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Shirley Eaton]] — actress<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-jonathan-co-shirley-eaton-1105851.html|title=How we met: Jonathan Co; & Shirley Eaton|date=11 July 1999|work=[[The Independent]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709133057/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-jonathan-co-shirley-eaton-1105851.html|archive-date=9 July 2022|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Steve Ellis (musician)|Steve Ellis]] — a member of 60s pop group [[Love Affair (band)|The Love Affair]], born in Edgware 1950
*[[Victor Feldman]] (1934–1984) — jazz musician (1934–1984), was born in Edgware.<ref name="Grove">{{Citation|last1 = Larson |first1 = Steve |last2=Kernfeld |first2=Barry |title = Feldman, Victor (Stanley) [Vic]|work = Oxford Music Online |date = 2003 |publisher = Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press|doi = 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J147800 }} {{subscription required}}</ref>
*[[Vanessa Feltz]] — TV/radio presenter{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Vanessa Feltz]]}}
*[[Fenella Fielding]] (1927–2018) — actress, lived in Edgware in her early life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/nov/08/fenella-fielding-carry-on-screaming-kenneth-williams-norman-wisdom-interview|title=Carry on Screaming's Fenella Fielding on fighting with Kenneth Williams and bouncing back after bankruptcy|first=Simon|last=Hattenstone|date=8 November 2017|website=Theguardian.com|access-date=17 November 2017}}</ref>
*Dayan [[Michoel Fisher]] (1910–2004) — former Chairman of the Federation of Synagogues Rabbinate{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Michoel Fisher]]}}
*[[Dean Furman]] (born 1988) — professional footballer, grew up in Edgware.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Caro |first1=Danny |title=Furman ready to rub shoulders with Premier League stars at Africa Cup of Nations |url=https://www.thejc.com/sport/football/furman-afcon-south-africa-egypt-1.485712 |access-date=24 June 2022 |work=www.thejc.com |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle |date=21 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[George Frideric Handel]] (1685–1759) — composer<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/411585.historian-with-a-handel-in-edgwares-past/ | title=Historian with a Handel in Edgware's past | access-date=20 July 2024 | website=www.times-series.co.uk| date=10 September 2003}}</ref>
*[[Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)|Altaf Hussain]] Chief and founder of Pakistan's [[Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London|MQM]] Party. Resident since 1992.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)]]}}
*[[Charlotte McDonagh]] — actress/television presenter/model and singer{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Charlotte McDonagh]]}}
*[[Patrick McGoohan]] (1928–2009) — lead actor in the 1967 series ''[[The Prisoner]]'', lived in a large detached house on The Ridgeway, Mill Hill Village<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barker |first=Dennis |date=14 January 2009 |title=Obituary: Patrick McGoohan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jan/14/television2 |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[Jane March]] — actress{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Jane March]]}}
*[[Dave Mattacks]] — rock and folk drummer, best known for his work with [[Fairport Convention]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/09/dave-mattacks-interview.html|title=Dave Mattacks interview|last=Breznikar|first=Klemen|date=5 September 2012|work=PsychedelicBabyMag|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110060651/https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/09/dave-mattacks-interview.html|archive-date=10 November 2022|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[George Michael]] — pop singer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/arts/music/george-michael-freedom-uncut.html|title=George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too.|last=Tannenbaum|first=Rob|date=21 June 2022|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309084720/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/arts/music/george-michael-freedom-uncut.html|archive-date=9 March 2024|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Barry Norman]] — television presenter and author{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Barry Norman]]}}
*[[Archie Panjabi]] — [[Emmy Award]] winning actress, known for ''[[The Good Wife]]''{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Archie Panjabi]]}}
*[[David Piper (racing driver)|David Piper]] — racing driver<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/David_Piper |title= The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? |accessdate=29 July 2007 |last=Jenkins |first=Richard |publisher=OldRacingCars.com}}</ref>
*[[Angharad Rees]] — actress{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Angharad Rees]]}}
*[[Richard Russell (XL Recordings)|Richard Russell]] — owner of UK Record Label, XL Recordings<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7918644/Richard-Russell-of-XL-Recordings-interview.html|title=Richard Russell of XL Recordings interview|last=De Wilde|first=Gervase|date=30 July 2010|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009105722/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7918644/Richard-Russell-of-XL-Recordings-interview.html|archive-date=9 October 2023|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Pat Sharp]] — disc jockey and television presenter{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Pat Sharp]]}}
*[[Ben Strevens]] — footballer currently playing for [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64915166|title=Ben Strevens: Dagenham & Redbridge appoint former striker as manager|date=10 March 2023|work=[[BBC]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515034147/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64915166|archive-date=15 May 2023|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Mitchell Symons]] — journalist and author<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/interview-mitch-symons-fyfe0tgt|title=Interview: Mitch Symons|work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625231055/https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/interview-mitch-symons-fyfe0tgt|archive-date=25 June 2024|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[Ernest George Trobridge]] — architect; [[Blue Plaque]] at 19 Heather Walk.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Ernest George Trobridge]]}}
*[[Patrick Vieira]] — former Arsenal footballer{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No evidence in linked article [[Patrick Vieira]]}}
*[[William Wilberforce]] (1759–1833) — slave trade abolitionist, lived on the Highwood Hill estate, Mill Hill (1826–1831)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pollock |first1=John |title=Wilberforce |date=1977 |publisher=Constable |location=London |isbn=978-0-09-460780-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/wilberforce0000unse/page/294/mode/2up |access-date=24 June 2022}}</ref>{{rp|295,303}}
*[[Frank Williams (actor)|Frank Williams]] — actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/473788/Frank-Williams-from-Dad-s-Army-interview|title=Frank Williams reveals his excitement for the big-screen version of Dad's Army|first=David|last=Stephenson|date=4 May 2014|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[Christopher Wreh]] — former Arsenal footballer{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=No source in linked article [[Christopher Wreh]]}}
*[[Ashley Blaker]] – comedian and television producer

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180px" heights="180px">
Edgware, Kings Parade, Edgwarebury Lane - geograph.org.uk - 1422782.jpg|Kings Parade, Edgwarebury Lane.
Edgwarebury Lane shops.jpg|Edgwarebury Lane
Edgware, A41 Edgware Way - geograph.org.uk - 92105.jpg|A41 Edgware Way, located north from Edgware town centre. View from Edgwarebury Lane footbridge.
Edgware, The Basin, Canons Park Estate - geograph.org.uk - 1418731.jpg|Basin Lake, located in Canons Drive to the west of Edgware. It is located in the borough of Harrow
Edgware Way Grassland.JPG|Grassland in Edgwarebury Park, taken from the A41 Edgware Way/Watford-by-Pass. This is the far north, rural area of Edgware.
Edgware, Former Great Northern Railway branch line - geograph.org.uk - 1421315.jpg|Former track of the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] line, which closed in 1964. View from Dean's Lane in the east of Edgware
Rose Garden Close, Edgware - geograph.org.uk - 255396.jpg|Rose Garden Close in western Edgware, near Canons Drive. This road consists of large suburban houses, near Lake Grove
Premier Inn, Edgware - geograph.org.uk - 1712358.jpg|Premier Inn hotel, Edgware
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062412/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/census-profile-edgware.pdf Ward information]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050308140830/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/cultural_services/local_studies/index.php3 Barnet Archives and Local Studies]
*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22453 Victoria County History] Edgware Chapter (1971)
*[http://www.memoriespictures.co.uk/edgware.htm Clive Smith] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207193333/http://www.memoriespictures.co.uk/edgware.htm |date=7 February 2012 }} photo collection

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