Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Where the **** is "Turnpike Lane"?
If you've been around the site for a while, you may well be aware of my interest in neighbourhood names. Some of you may remember when I set out to discover what name the man in the street uses when referring to Harringay. (More discussions on a similar theme).
Reading a recent posting about Turnpike Lane, I was interested to see how extensive is the area that people refer to when using the name "Turnpike Lane". I imagine this is another example of how tube and train station names influence Londoners' sense of what a place is called (and why, for example, a good number of people refer to Harringay as Harringay Green Lanes).
For me Turnpike Lane is a stretch of road between Duckett's Common and Wightman Road. What does it mean for you?
(For some reason I thought I ought to continue the four star theme when headlining postings about place names. My apologies to anyone whose sensibilities I have offended)
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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I have lived in Alexandra Road and Lausanne Road for the past 25+ years. I have always described my area as Hornsey (Harringay is growing - just wished it was pronounced differently to Haringey). To people from outside the area I would tag on 'near Turnpike Lane tube station'. For me Turnpike lane is the road, the tube, the bus station, Duckett's Common and a few roads behind the bus station.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Interesting about the pronunciation. I've heard from several sources that when Haringey Borough was created in 1965, kids at school were taught that the area's new name should be pronounced Harin-gee, as in Finchley. Oddly, for the first couple of years of operation, Veolia's voicemail message used just this pronunciation - unless that was someone taking the mick out of a French accent!
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Permalink Reply by Milda Rami on
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I would definitely include a large chunk of westbury avenue and some surrounding roads because what else do you call then?
We live on Sirdar road which is a bit of a no man's land. Or does anyone actually have a name for this area? :)
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Looking back through 19th, 18th and 17th Century maps, the closest named geographic match for at least part of the area would be Hawke Park. Try it on. If y'all like it up there, go for it. It's not an invented name. As late as the early 19th Century, at least part of your area was called Hawke (or Hawk) Park. (The area indicated below corresponds to what today could be called Hawke Park. It's not an overlay of the historical park. It looks like the park itself may have covered the south western part of the area I've indicated).
To the east of this area is West Green, to the north Noel Park/Wood Green and to the south and west is Harringay.
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'Hawke park' has a nice ring to it i like it.
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Love it! Hawke park! Thanks!
Just need to notify the estate agents and then its bound to stick :))
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Just get a local community activist & a councillor to put in a bid to Haringey Council for a making the difference grant. That'll pay for several "Welcome to Hawke Park" signs. The get to work on Wikipedia and Google maps, a quick bit of leafletting and you're awa'! Simple innit.
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