Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Harringay Farm, 1880

This building stood to the eastern side of Tottenham Lane. You can see the church which remains today near the corner of Rokesley Road.

If you'd like to learn more about the history of Harringay , see my article on Wikipedia providing an overview of the History of Harringay. The series box at the top of that page will take you to more detailed articles I've sketched out on periods in Harringay's history.

Digital image © Harringay Online

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Comment by Hugh on January 16, 2018 at 11:28: As I said don't take any of those semi-pro 'historian's' books, specially the older ones as giving cast iron facts. One example of how incorrect 'facts' get entrenched relates to a supposed Cozens house which used to exist on the site where Harringay House was built. Book after book assumed a previous 'fact; was correct and it got repeated over the decades without anyone checking the facts. Here's a footnote I added to one of my Harringay Wikipedia articles:

"Sherrington, R.O. (1904). Story of Hornsey. F.E. Robinson & Co. It should be noted that whilst Sherrington cites William Keane as his reference for evidence of a Tudor House, Keane himself mentions only the fancy of a Norman castle on the site. Sadly scant evidence exists for either (Keane, William (1850). The Beauties of Middlesex, being a particular Description of the principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in the County of Middlesex)."

This post relates to this issue. I think the 'fine old tudor house' existed, but not on the site where Harringay House was built. It is my supposition that the house referred to was in fact the one pictured above. This was a kilometre due west of Harringay house.

Comment by Nic on January 16, 2018 at 11:54: Ok Hugh, that's the problem with researching historical facts. The records for this area are kept where as I have a feeling that John Cozens came from this area in around 1710-20. Nic

Comment by Hugh on June 8, 2018 at 11:46: I've just stumbled across a better version of the original picture at the top of this post, along with the source. I'm now trying to track down the original. In the meantime, it does look like the date is 1840 not 1880 as I had previously understood.

This earlier date supports the interchangeability of names (harringay Farm in 1840 - Manor Farm in the 1861 census).

I also came across Fred Collingwood's Marriage certificate to Augusta Humphreys in 1856. At the time he gave his place of residence as St Pancras. So we can narrow down the date he moved in to Harringay/Manor Farm to between 1856 and 1861.

Comment by Hugh on April 10, 2020 at 0:11: I came across the following this week whilst searching for something unrelated. It's a page from the Land Tax Records of 1790. It appears to show Gray taking over land from Cozens.

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