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Finchley

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Finchley [ˈfɪntʃlɪ]
n
(Placename) a residential district of N London, part of the Greater London borough of Barnet from 1965


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At last it was conveyed to the carrier's, at whose house at Finchley Kit was to find it next day; and the box being gone, there remained but two questions for consideration: firstly, whether the carrier would lose, or dishonestly feign to lose, the box upon the road; secondly, whether Kit's mother perfectly understood how to take care of herself in the absence of her son.
I determined to stroll home in the purer air by the most roundabout way I could take; to follow the white winding paths across the lonely heath; and to approach London through its most open suburb by striking into the Finchley Road, and so getting back, in the cool of the new morning, by the western side of the Regent's Park.
Down I turned into the Avenue Road, and presently was strolling between green fields towards Finchley.
 
 
 
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