Highgate High Street, N6

Exactly what it says on the tin - the main road of Highgate.

Highgate Forge, Highgate High Street, 1900
Credit: Bishopsgate Institute

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Highgate High Street, N6

Added: 12 Jun 2023 11:29 GMT

Highgate High Street, N6
Highgate rises to 400 feet above sea level and is the highest point for miles around. The gate was a tollgate erected by fourteenth-century Bishops of London in their capacity as Lords of the Manor of Hornsey. On entering the Manor all travellers were charged at one of three check points : the first was the Gatehouse Tavern at Highgate, the second was the tollhouse outside the Spaniards Inn in Hampstead Lane, and the third lay at the far end of the Bishop’s Avenue, near East Finchley Station. The Highgate toll was very profitable, since it commanded Highgate Hill and Highgate High Street, then the main route to the north. Highgate Road and its continuation Highgate West Hill are comparatively modern, dating from about 1700.

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Castle Yard, N6

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Causton Road, N6

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Cholmeley Park, N6

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Chomeley Park, N6

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Coleridge House, N6

Cromwell Avenue, N6 Cromwell Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N6 postal area (Highgate)

Cromwell Avenue, N6

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Cromwell Place, N6

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Duke’s Head Yard, N6

Egyptian Avenue, N6 Egyptian Avenue is a road in the N6 postcode area (Highgate)

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Elm Court, N6

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Englefield House, N6

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Furnival House, N6

Gordon Close, N19 Gordon Close is a location in London (Archway)

Gordon Close, N19

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Greenview Court, N6

Grimshaw Close, N6 Grimshaw Close is a location in London (Highgate)

Grimshaw Close, N6

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Highgate Close, N6

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Highgate Hill, N6 Highgate Hill dates from 1386 when a new road from the City had come into use as the main road going north (Highgate)

Highgate Hill, N6

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Highgate West Hill, N6

Highgate Wing, N19 Highgate Wing is one of the streets of London in the N19 postal area (Highgate)

Highgate Wing, N19

Holbrook Close, N19 Holbrook Close is a location in London (Highgate)

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Holly Lodge Gardens, N6 Holly Lodge Gardens is one of the streets of London in the N6 postal area (Highgate)

Holly Lodge Gardens, N6

Holly Lodge Gardenss, N6 Holly Lodge Gardenss is a road in the N6 postcode area (Highgate)

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Ireton House, N6

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Kempton House, N6

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Kingsley Place, N6

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Langdon Park Road, N6

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Lyndale House, N6

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Margaret House, N6

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Moreton House, N6

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Netherleigh Close, N6

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North Road, N6

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Northwood Road, N6

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Park House, N6

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Pond Square, N6

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South Grove, N6

Southwood Lane, N6 Southwood Lane has existed since, at the latest, 1601. (Highgate)

Southwood Lane, N6

St. John’s Grove, N6 A street within the N6 postcode (Highgate)

St. John’s Grove, N6

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The Bank, N6

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The End House, N6

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Tile Kilane Lane, N6 Tile Kilane Lane is a location in London (Highgate)

Tile Kilane Lane, N6

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Tile Kiln Lane, N6

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Hornsey Lane (Archway) Bridge, 1900 Credit: London Transport Collection TUM image id: 1556882688 Licence:	Construction at the Archway, Highgate (1900) (Not construction "of" the Archway, which happened earlier in the nineteenth century) Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1557159039 Licence:	Lauderdale House, Highgate Lauderdale House was one of the finest country houses in Highgate and was originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582. In 1645 it came to Earl of Lauderdale (hence its name) as his wife’s inheritance. The house became a convalescent home for St. Bartholomew’s hospital in 1872.[3] In 1882 the then owner, Sir Sydney Waterlow, the famous printer, donated it ’for the enjoyment of Londoners’. It is a Grade II* listed building. Credit: ’Old and New London’ by Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1630580172 Licence:	Highgate Hill, N19 TUM image id: 1466527830 Licence:	Strand Yard, Highgate From proceedings at the Old Bailey it appears that Cross Brothers were listed as located in Strand Yard. Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1686920986 Licence:
Millfield Lane, Highgate, 1890. Fashions change and new buildings go up but Millfield Lane still has the whiff of the country about it, being effectively part of Hampstead Heath. Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1557150293 Licence:	The Gate House, Highgate (1820) This was situated at the crossroads on the brow at the top of Highgate Hill. TUM image id: 1640354609 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Lauderdale House, Highgate Lauderdale House was one of the finest country houses in Highgate and was originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582. In 1645 it came to Earl of Lauderdale (hence its name) as his wife’s inheritance. The house became a convalescent home for St. Bartholomew’s hospital in 1872.[3] In 1882 the then owner, Sir Sydney Waterlow, the famous printer, donated it ’for the enjoyment of Londoners’. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Credit: ’Old and New London’ by Walter Thornbury
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Strand Yard, Highgate From proceedings at the Old Bailey it appears that Cross Brothers were listed as located in Strand Yard.
Credit: Bishopsgate Institute
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The Gate House, Highgate (1820) This was situated at the crossroads on the brow at the top of Highgate Hill.
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