Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Crouch End Heights !!!!?????
Estate agents (Prickett & Ellis of Crouch End - where else) have now given the name "Crouch End Heights" to the north (higher) part of Stapleton Hall Road. See the attached. The property in question at 194 is just down the road from Quernmore Road. What next Finsbury Park village?. There was an attempt at Stroud Green Village, but this came to nothing.
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Permalink Reply by Mavic Starfish on
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3. Belmont West Green
In my mind this area is named after the station
What do we call this neighbourhood that I talked about above? I suppose it runs West of Downhills Park and East of Turnpike Lane tube, centred around Langham Road. Not sure on the name or the boundaries.
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and this from NHS, "Catchment area - West green surgery", which has already gone into the history books as it's just been knocked down to be replaced by flats.
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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That's a bit expansionist! West Green ward roughly takes West Green Rd as its southern boundary and Westbury Ave/Lordship Lane as its northern and runs from Green Lanes across to the just beyond Broadwater Farm and Downhills Park.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Just forget all about administrative districts. They're nothing to do with neighbourhoods. They're functions of bureauracies that need to carve up areas into simillar sized populations. Set them aside and focus on history and resident opinion.
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Actaully settlement at West Green and the name itself long predates the railway station. In the middle of the nineteenth century it was bigger than Wood Green.
Between Downhills and Belmont has always been part of West Green. East of that to Green Lanes, I'd go with Duckett's Green.
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Permalink Reply by Roslyn Byfield on
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Way back in the 80s I used to live in a road near Hornsey Rise and a neighbour used to allude to our area as 'Highgate borders'.
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Yup, when Crouchie was desperately unfashionable. People are much less likely to do that these days.
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You've reminded me that in the early 90s, before CE took off, the head of the department where I worked advised someone not to put Crouch End as part of their address in their CV...
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Blimey, unfashionable is one thing, but I've never heard of it as being thought of as undesirable!
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Crouch End CENTRAL? Now that is interesting. Has anyone heard of Hornsey? And how about Tottenham Lane, Crouch End.
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Who'd have thought this topic would excite such interest? Just to say I think most people wouldn't want to use the pretentious names dreamed up by estate agents (unless they can unselfconsciously declare that they live in Crouch End Heights - a hard task). It used to irritate me years ago when it was archly suggested that London is a collection of villages. Well, maybe it was for those who lived in aesthetically attractive places like Belsize Park, but no so for others. With the increasing population in London fewer people know their neighbours and many don't even try. But forums such as this one have made a big difference, I think. We have one in my area, campaign in local issues and meet each other in the real world besides the virtual one. I bet Harringay feels more like a community since HoL came along.
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That's not Crouch End at all - that is Hornsey; is was and ever shall be.
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