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Menorah outside Edgware Tube Station , 2006 ]] Edgware is a suburb of north London situated 9.7 miles (15.6 km) north-west of Charing Cross . Most of Edgware is in the London Borough Of Barnet , but the western part is in the London Borough Of Harrow . It is principally a shopping and residential area and is known by those who regularly use the London Underground as being one of the northern termini of the Northern Line . It has a bus garage, a shopping centre called The Mall (formerly known as The Broadwalk), a library, a large hospital, Edgware Community Hospital , and two streams, Edgware Brook and Deans Brook, which are tributaries of the River Brent . Edgware is well-known for its high Jewish population.[http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SDDRGVT ''Kosher in the country'' '' The Economist '' 01 Jun 2006] accessed 14 August 2007 Its population is 47% Jewish (taken from synagogue membership figures) and the area contains 12 Synagogues , situated in the central and northern areas of the Suburb . The Jewish community in Edgware has constructed its own Eruv . The Edgware Eruv In the 2001 Census, 36.9% of Edgware residents give their Religion as Jewish – one of the highest rates in England and Wales . This figure is believed to be higher as the question was optional on the census. see Barnet Census Profile HISTORY See Also: History of Edgware Edgware was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. Edgware is a Saxon name meaning Ecgi's weir. Ecgi was a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi's people would catch fish. From 1932 to 1965 , it was in the Borough of Hendon. The Romans made pottery at Brockley Hill, and is thought by some to be the site of Sulloniacis. Canons Park , to the north-west, was developed as an estate by the Duke Of Chandos . NEARBY AREAS NEARBY TUBE STATIONS NOTABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED IN EDGWARE
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