Whitchurch, London

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Whitchurch is a locality in Edgware, in the London Borough of Barnet, England. Historically part of Middlesex, the parish is also known as Little Stanmore.^[1] It is famous for its baroque church of St Lawrence, which houses an early eighteenth-century organ played by Handel and restored in the 1990s to its original condition. In the churchyard is a tombstone to William Powell, supposedly "The Harmonious Blacksmith" who inspired one of Handel's keyboard works.