HIGHGATE, a village five miles north of Lon-
don. It has its name from its high situation, and from
Highland- a gate set up there about 400 years ago, to receive ers. toll for the bishop of London, when the old mizy road from Gray's-Inn lane to Barnet was turned through the bishop's park. There was a hermitage where the chapel now stands; and one of the hermits caused a causeway to be made between Highgate and Islington, with gravel dug out of the top of the hill, where there is now a pond. Near the chapel, in 1562, lord chief baron Cholmondeley built and endowed a free school, which was enlarged in 1570 by Edwin Sandys, bishop of London.—This village is a noted and airy retirement for the gentry and wealthy citizens; and is a place of good accommodation, besides its affording a delightful and pleasant prospect over the city and adjacent country.