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Arnos Grove, Cannon Hill, Southgate, London


Caroline Franklin, Michael Franklin

Arnos Grove, an estate in Southgate, 7 or 8 miles north of London, belonging to Sir William Mayne, 1st Baron Newhaven (1722 – 1794). Originally a mediaeval demesne known as Arnold’s then Arno’s, Sir William renamed it Arno’s Grove. Mayne acquired the estate in 1766, on which was already built the present early eighteenth-century mansion, and conveyed it in 1775 to James Brown of Lombard Street. (Baggs, A P, Diane K Bolton, Eileen P Scarff and G C Tyack. 'Edmonton: Other estates' A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham. Ed. T F T Baker and R B Pugh, (London: Victoria County History, 1976), 154-161. British History Online


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