Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Greenwood's Map of London 1827
Clearing out the 'bookmarked stuff' on my computer, I came across this map; Greenwood's Map of London 1827, which I'd forgotten about.
It is a very worthwhile resource for anyone interested in London and it's History, so I thought I'd add a link here.
Unfortunately, the map doesn't cover Harringay, only reaching as far North on a line Camden Town, Caledonian Road and Dalston.
It is very important, as it depicts London a decade before the Railways reached the metropolis, clearly showing the locations of the stations and lines, which were mostly unbuilt land at that time.
The newly constructed Camden Road is shown; the beginning of the thoroughfare across fields from Camden Town to Holloway, which as Seven Sisters Road was further extended to Tottenham in 1833.
Of interest to me, the whole area around Victoria Station, a decade before Victoria had become Queen and thirty years before her name was given to the station and eventually the area surrounding it.
Great stuff for anyone, like me who often wonders why the London we know today, is the way that it is..
It is a very worthwhile resource for anyone interested in London and it's History, so I thought I'd add a link here.
Unfortunately, the map doesn't cover Harringay, only reaching as far North on a line Camden Town, Caledonian Road and Dalston.
It is very important, as it depicts London a decade before the Railways reached the metropolis, clearly showing the locations of the stations and lines, which were mostly unbuilt land at that time.
The newly constructed Camden Road is shown; the beginning of the thoroughfare across fields from Camden Town to Holloway, which as Seven Sisters Road was further extended to Tottenham in 1833.
Of interest to me, the whole area around Victoria Station, a decade before Victoria had become Queen and thirty years before her name was given to the station and eventually the area surrounding it.
Great stuff for anyone, like me who often wonders why the London we know today, is the way that it is..
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Permalink Reply by Caroline on
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That's fantastic Stephen, thanks. I've seen a section of this before (I was trying to find the meaning behind Loddiges Road in Hackney) but have never seen the whole map before.
My work colleagues will not be thanking you ... I imagine that I will be very boring for the rest of the day!
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Yes, I can spend hours looking over the map too..
A few examples: the area around Trafalgar Square, long before Charing Cross Road was built through the area.. Or Earl's Court, before the District Railway took it over or even sarf of the river .. the area around today's Waterloo station..
It's amazing to see how's today's street names still reflect old farms, estates or even just cottages..
Lastly, a link to the second edition of 1830 can be reached by via the History section or by clicking on to this link, not to mention these here !
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Permalink Reply by Duguneek on
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Should I go to Bruce Grove Museum to find out about Woodlands Park? Did it ever exist? Are there any old maps?
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I haven't been able to get to the museum there for about 20 years, but I do know that even then they had lots of good old maps of the area, plus publicity from the developers of certain estates in Tottenham.
I've just taken a look at the older maps of the area I have, but couldn't really find anything that indicated a house or estate being called Woodlands Park - pre-development. There was a Downhills House (it's estate is now the park) & Dovecote House and I think at one time there was a farm called Ducketts and these have been continued into the present in the names of streets.
I imagine, but I'm not 100% sure, that Woodlands Park is 'just' a name thought up by the developers of the area - The school also took that name and I do remember that in the 1960s, the kids in the area always referred to Chestnut's Park as Woodlands Park. Chestnut's was of course, also the name of a House, which became a health clinic in the 1950s and it's grounds are now also a park.
Perhaps the school was re-named Chestnut's to stop the confusion, although it is located on Woodlands Park (estate) land.
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