HORNSEY, a town of Middlesex, five miles north London. It is a long straggling place, situated in a low valley, but extremely pleasant, having the new river winding through it. Its church, of which Highgate is a hamlet, is supposed to be built with the stones that came from Lodge-Hill, the bishop of London's hunting-feast in his park here; it having been his manor from the most ancient times. About a mile nearer this is a coppice of young trees, called Hornsey-wood, at the entrance of which is a public-house, to which great numbers of persons resort from the city. This house being situated on the top of a hill, affords a delightful prospect of the neighbouring country.