Editing Edgmont Township, Pennsylvania (section)

==History and socioeconomics==
Edgmont Township, otherwise known by the post office name of Edgemont ([[ZIP Code]] 19028), is a semi-rural suburban area in western Delaware County. It was one of the first townships in Pennsylvania, founded in the late 1680s. The name is derived from the ancient royal manor of Edgemond in Shropshire, England, where Joseph Baker, one of the earliest settlers to the township, emigrated from.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ashmeade|first1=Henry Graham|title=History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania|date=1884|publisher=L.H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655/page/n750 553]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> Joseph Baker was the representative for Delaware County in the [[Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania|Provincial Assembly]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ashmeade|first1=Henry Graham|title=History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania|date=1884|publisher=L.H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655/page/n755 558]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref>

Today, Edgmont is home to a rather wide socioeconomic range. Along the rural area along Valley Road are many high-income neighborhoods such as Allee, Okehocking Hills, and Fiveormore. On Delchester Road is the rather posh new neighborhood known as Somerhill. On the major north–south thoroughfare through Edgmont, Providence Road, several upscale single-family homes on large lots predominate as well as other high-income neighborhoods such as Springton Chase and Runnymeade Farms. There is also a retirement home known as White Horse Village. Within Edgmont lies a very tiny village that is not incorporated known as [[Gradyville, Pennsylvania|Gradyville]] (19039). It consists mainly of a post office, a gas station, a flower shop, an antique shop, one or two houses, and an English-language Orthodox church. Though Edgmont has its own post office as mentioned previously, most of the area is served by the [[Newtown Square, Pennsylvania|Newtown Square]] post office (19073), the [[Media, Pennsylvania|Media]] post office (19063), or the [[Glen Mills, Pennsylvania|Glen Mills]] post office as it delivers mail directly to residences.