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Kilburn Library

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Kilburn Library
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There are two library buildings in North London called Kilburn Library. One is in the London Borough of Camden and located in the Kilburn High Road, NW6, and the other is in the London Borough of Brent and located in Salusbury Road. NW6. Camden's Kilburn Library was first located in Priory Road, NW6, as a temporary arrangement. It operated from October 1894 until 31 December 1901. In 1902 it relocated to Cotleigh Road, NW6, and remained there for a little over a hundred years. Its current layout comprises mezzanine with children's, family and learning facilities, quiet reading lounge, computers with free internet and wifi, book, CD and DVD lending making it an essential library service and gateway to other Council services to the local community. It is also home to the Kilburn Youth Centre.

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Kilburn Library
Greville Mews, London South Hampstead (London Borough of Camden)

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NW6 5HX London, South Hampstead (London Borough of Camden)
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Kilburn Priory
Kilburn Priory

Kilburn Priory was a small monastic community of nuns established around 1130–1134 three miles north-west of the City of London, where Watling Street (now Kilburn High Road) met the stream now known as the Westbourne, but variously known as Cuneburna, Keneburna, Keeleburne, Coldburne, or Caleburn, meaning either the royal or cow's stream. The priory gave its name to the area now known as Kilburn, and the local streets Priory Road, Kilburn Priory, Priory Terrace, and Abbey Road.The site was used until 1130 as a hermitage by Godwyn, a recluse, who subsequently gave the property to the conventual church of St. Peter, Westminster. The priory was established with the consent of Gilbert Universalis, bishop of London, before his death in August 1134. Though it was originally subordinate to Westminster Abbey, whose monks followed the Benedictine rule, by 1377 it was described as being an order of Augustinian canonesses. It was once believed that the Ancrene Riwle was written for the first three nuns of Kilburn, but this is now thought unlikely. Agnes Strickland states that the priory was established in 1128 for the three pious and charitable ladies-in-waiting of Queen Matilda of Scotland, consort of Henry I, named Emma, Gunilda, and Cristina. After the death of the queen [in 1118] these ladies retired to the hermitage of Kilburn near London, where there was a holy well, or medicinal spring. This was changed to a priory in 1128, as the deed says, for the reception of these . . . damsels who had belonged to the chamber of Matilda. Kilburn Priory was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1537 and its site in Kilburn was given to the Knights of St. John in exchange for other property, and then seized back by the crown in 1540.