Editing Edgware (section)

===Boundaries and scope===
The Ancient parish formally defined the extent of Edgware for over 800 years, but the district is now sometimes perceived as covering a wider area.

====Ancient Parish====
[[Civil parish#Ancient parishes|Ancient parishes]] served one or more manors (occasionally very large manors would be divided into more than one parish). The boundaries of these underlying manors occasionally changed through subinfeudation (sub-division), and parish boundaries might sometimes change with that, but in 1180 the parish boundaries were frozen, so that sub-division of parishes was unusual after that time, usually only occurring in rapidly developing urban areas.<ref name=or>History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham, 1986 p19</ref> 

The ancient parish served by St Margaret's church was bounded to the west by Roman [[Watling Street]] with the parish of Little Stanmore beyond it. South of [[Deans Brook]] and Edgware Brook to the south and east was [[Hendon]]. ''Ecgi's Weir'', which gave the district its name is likely to have been built on one of these boundary brooks.

The parish appears to have inherited a much older boundary along these brooks, as these are described as part of the boundary of an estate in neighbouring Hendon.<ref>Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld, D C Yaxley, 'Edgware: Introduction', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn, R B Pugh( London, 1971), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp151-155 [accessed 21 August 2024].</ref><ref>The Place Names of Middlesex, English Place Names Society, Mawer and Stenton, 1942</ref> 

The parish's northern boundary with the parish of Elstree, was also that of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. Middlesex's northern boundary was, in this area, marked by a 20 kilometre [[hedge]] of great antiquity. When still unfragmented, the hedge extended from the River Colne (Middlesex's western boundary) to [[Barnet Gate Wood]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rippon|first1=Stephen|title=Kingdom, Civitas and County|date=2018 |orig-year=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-875937-9|pages=320–321}}</ref> This boundary of Middlesex with Hertfordshire was inherited, in part, by the new [[Greater London]] in 1965. 

The area of Edgware was consistent and in the 1930s measured as {{convert|3.26|mi2}}.<ref name="bh">{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22453 |title=Edgware: Introduction |editor1-first=T. F. T. |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=J. S. |editor2-last=Cockburn |editor3-first=R. B. |editor3-last=Pugh |author1-first=Diane K. |author1-last=Bolton |author2-first=H. P. F. |author2-last=King |author3-first=Gillian |author3-last=Wyld |author4-first=D. C. |author4-last=Yaxley |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1971 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4 |access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref>

====Electoral wards====
Both Barnet and Harrow have electoral wards named Edgware. The ward in Harrow was called ''South Stanmore'' until 2002.<ref>London Borough of Harrow (Electoral Changes) Order 2000</ref> Electoral wards are regularly altered to ensure a consistent number of electors per ward across a local authority area.

====Postal area====
Edgware is part of the [[HA postcode area]], named after nearby [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], of the London [[post town]].<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'' (2004)</ref> More specifically Edgware is part of the HA8 postcode locality, associated with Edgware, but which covers a much wider area including [[Burnt Oak]], [[The Hale]], [[Canons Park]], and parts of [[Queensbury, London|Queensbury]]. In this way HA8 take in part of the boroughs of Barnet, Harrow and Brent. Postcode areas are an operational convenience for the Royal Mail, and not intended to define districts.

Some eastern streets are in the [[NW postcode area]].