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Mrs. De Sails is to be congratulated on her interesting

account of the old parish of Hillingdon. Book's such as Hillingdon Through Eleven Centuries (Lucy and Birch, Ux- bridge) probably. do not reach a wide public, but they are of value in, that they. preserve the memories of a rural England that is now, alas, rapidly becoming urban. * * *