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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Can you identify the location of this 1849 "Hornsey" drawing?

I have a few ideas but nothing that fills me with much confidence. If you click the image to enlarge it, you can see what looks like a distant church spire just to the right of the rightmost tree.

It might be impossible to locate, but 'd be grateful to hear others' thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by cavendishmark on Friday

Overlooking Old Park Chapel Crouch End from hogs back direction?

Permalink Reply by John Leeming on Friday

Looking at the 6-inch map of that period, no buildings are shown in the Hogs' Back area. It is clearly a high point , and I wonder if it could be the Shepherd's Hill area, with Crouch End in the dip on the right. There are some buildings shown as 'Shepherds Cot' in that area.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.6&lat=51.57949&lon...

Permalink Reply by Hugh 17 hours ago

Thank you, Mark and John.

I'd wondered if that probable church spire might be St Michaels in Wood Green which had been completed a few years before the date of the drawing. 

The Shepherds Hill option makes sense. However, I was struggling to place the spire. Christchurch wasn't completed until 1861. Old Park Chapel had a spire, but that opened in 1855. So, I suppose it's probably unlikley that the spire was finished by 1849. Maybe it's not a church spire at all!

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