Newington Green, N1

Newington Green in this postcode covers the south side of the Green.

Appearing in the Domesday Survey of 1086, it then formed part of the demesne of St Paul’s Cathedral. In the 13th century, The then ’Newton’ became split between Newington Green and to its north Stoke Newington, and to its east Newington Barrow (later called Highbury).

Originally the main was agriculture - latterly growing hay for nearby London. The name Newington Green was first mentioned in 1480 and was fringed by cottages, homesteads and crofts on the three ’Islington’ sides.

In the 16th century, the area became connected to the court of Henry VIII - the king used a house on the south side of the Green as a base for hunting bulls, stags and boar which roamed the surrounding forest.

In 1535, Thomas Cromwell took up residence at Canonbury Tower to the south. From there he organised the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Several streets in the area took their name from the Tudor period: King Henry’s Walk, Boleyn Road (formerly Ann Boleyn’s Walk), Wolsey Road and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Dr Paul Flewers

Hawthorne Close, N1

Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT

Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street
My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road.

From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous.

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The exterior of the Agricultural Hall in Islington (1861). TUM image id: 1488644663 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Blue plaque erected in 1932 by London County Council at 95 Stoke Newington Church Street. London’s blue plaques link the people of the past with the buildings of the present. Now run by English Heritage, the London blue plaques scheme was started in 1866 and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world Credit: Wiki Commons/Spudgun67 TUM image id: 1630578736 Licence:	Highbury Corner TUM image id: 1489497654 Licence:	Beer in the evening Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1675427151 Licence:	The third Grand Theatre, Islington (1903). This was built on the site of the former Philharmonic Hall and two previous Grand Theatres TUM image id: 1587741263 Licence:
Islington Horse and Cattle market at the turn of the twentieth century. TUM image id: 1556878421 Licence:	The Angel, Islington (c.1890) TUM image id: 1557162442 Licence:	Geffrye Museum, London (2012) Credit: Chang Yisheng TUM image id: 1557162652 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Finsbury Park platform art Credit: Annabel Grey TUM image id: 1602070648 Licence:	Colville Estate, Shoreditch (2019) The Colville Estate is situated between the Regents Canal to the North and Shoreditch Park to the South. It was designed in the early 1950s by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council and since 2009 has undergone ’regeneration’. Credit: Municipal Dreams TUM image id: 1636043071 Licence:
Clissold Park is an open space in Stoke Newington. It is bounded by Greenway Close (to the north), Stoke Newington Church Street (to the south) and Green Lanes (west) and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk (east). It was named by the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was the local authority when the park was established. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1616780666 Licence:	The Camden Head, Islington This is a glorious old gin palace-style pub behind Upper Street, in existence since the 18th century. Credit: Flickr/Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1622558868 Licence:	Collins Theatre of Varieties (Collins’ Music Hall) existed in Islington between 1861 and 1958. Old-time ’greats’ who performed there were numerous: Charles Chaplin, Fred Karno, Kate Carney, Gus Elen, Sir George Robey, Marie Lloyd, Albert Chevalier, Nellie Wallace, Sir Harry Lauder, ’Wee’ Georgie Wood and more. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1622563124 Licence:	Crondall Street is one of the older streets of the Somers Town area. As Gloucester Street it had already appeared on Rocque’s 1750s map. By the time of the 1830 map, New Gloucester Street extended it westwards. The NW1 area has many other examples of this building style. TUM image id: 1575830074 Licence:	The rear of the houses of Church Row on Church Street, Stoke Newington. They were demolished in 1932. Will Owen, who sketched the houses, wrote: "... at the end comes a row of early eighteenth century houses, built of that rich red brick that grows richer with age, with pretty porches creeper-covered and this is Church Row." TUM image id: 1616755919 Licence: