THE HYDE is a village, partly in the parishes of Kingsbury and Hendon, on the high road to Edgware, near the sixth milestone, and in the North Western Metropolitan postal district, 1 mile west from Hendon railway station and half a mile from Kingsbury church and about 4 miles east from Harrow: it is in the Harrow division of the county, Gore petty sessional division and in the county court district of Barnet and Watford. St. John’s church, built in 1896, of brick in the Late Decorated style, consists of nave, south aisle and chapel: there are sittings for 600. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £100, in the gift of the Bishop of London and held since 1896 by the Rev. William Henry Skan Theol. Assoc. K.C.L. and chaplain of Hendon union. There is also a Congregational chapel. At Hyde House Farm, now occupied by Henry Ward esq. Oliver Goldsmith wrote his " History of Animated Nature” and some portions of “The Vicar of Wakefield” and “She Stoops to Conquer.”

Woodfield House is the residence of Herbert Walter Nelson esq. J.P. The land is chiefly owned by the warden and fellows of All Souls’ College, Oxford.

The old iron church of St. John is now used as a boys’ school house.

St. John’s Schools (girls & infants), built in 1889, for 300 children; average attendance, 124 boys, 130 girls & 111 infants.