Edgware

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Edgware () is a suburban town in north-west London, Greater London, England. It was an ancient parish in the historic county of Middlesex, east of the ancient Watling Street in what is now the London Borough of Barnet; it is now informally considered to cover a wider area, including parts of the borough of Harrow. The district is located 10 miles (16 km) north-north-west 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. It 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 bus garage, a shopping centre called the Broadwalk Centre, a library, a community hospital and two streams: Edgware Brook and Deans Brook, which merge and become known as the Silk Stream, itself a tributary of the river Brent. The town had a population...

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