 Thus a traveller's and historian's London regional summary of 1795 states that (New) Brentford was "considered as the county-town; but there is no town-hall or other public building".Middlesex County Council took over at the Guildhall in Westminster, which became the Middlesex Guildhall.In the same year, this location was placed into the new County of London, and was thus outside the council's area of jurisdiction.