Wembury Mews, N6

Wembury Mews is a road in the N6 postcode area

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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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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 Forge, Highgate High Street, 1900 Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1686153900 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Highgate Hill, N19 TUM image id: 1466527830 Licence:
Macdonald Road, N19 TUM image id: 1529850967 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:	A rainy day in Holloway Credit: IG/@ilaria vi TUM image id: 1630968457 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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Hornsey Lane (Archway) Bridge, 1900
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Construction at the Archway, Highgate (1900) (Not construction "of" the Archway, which happened earlier in the nineteenth century)
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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.
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Highgate Hill, N19
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A rainy day in Holloway
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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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