Portland Town Middlesex Family History Guide
Portland Town is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1849 from St Marylebone Christ Church Ecclesiastical Parish; located on Northwick Terrace, Maida Hill.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1876
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- St John’s Wood All Saints
- Hampstead St John
- St Marylebone St Mark
- St Marylebone
- St Pancras Christ Church
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PORTLAND-TOWN, a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry in Marylebone parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies W of Regent’s park and S of the Northwestern railway, 3½ miles NW 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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Marylebone
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: St Marylebone
- Hundred: Ossulstone (Holborn Division)
- Province: Canterbury