Old deeds show that it was the intention originally to call Clissold Road, Glebe Road. It was in fact for a short time called Park Road until 1870.

The name of Clissold is that of Augustus Clissold, well-known to the followers of Swedenborg. This Gloucestershire name has fixed itself in the minds of the public - it became the name of the Dalston telephone exchange.

The local mansion and grounds were variously marked in the maps as The Park" and "Newington Park". They were built and occupied by Grantham Hoare and afterwards purchased by Mr Crawshay and was often known as Crawshays Farm. After the death of W. Crawshay, Augustus Clissold, then a curate of this parish, married in 1855 Miss Eliza Crawshay and became tenant fur life of the property through his wife, and it was occupied by them for some time.

Mrs Clissold predeceased her husband and the property went back to the Crawshay family after Mr Clissold’s death in 1882, and for many years was uninhabited. In these circumstances, it is somewhat surprising that the name of Clissold rather than that of Crawshay should have become attached to the Park.

If it were not for the fact that the name ’Glebe’ had been used in other parts of London the original name of Glebe Road for Clissold Road would have been more appropriate, for it runs north and south through the whole extent of the Glebe Road and passes right through its centre.

Stoke Newington Street Names, F. Baxter (1927)


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