Middlesex en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old English Middelseaxan (literally “Middle Saxons”), which stood for both Middlesex and its people.
Meanings
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A former inland county of England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary.
A station on the Middlesex bank [of the Thames] was provided to serve Hampton Wick.
1958 June 14, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 450:
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Yates County, New York.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Washington County, Vermont.
- A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia.
- The central of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the counties of Cornwall in the west and Surrey in the east; named for the English county.
- A locality in Central Coast council area, Kentish council area and the Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
- A rural locality in the Shire of Manjimup, South West region, Western Australia.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Middlesex County.
alt of Middlesex County
Deriveds
Middlesex gallows · Middlesex Centre · North Middlesex · Middlesex County · Southwest Middlesex