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Hornsey (/ ˈhɔːrnzi /) is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Charing Cross.
Hornsey is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred 10 km north of Charing Cross. Map. Directions.
- Early Origins
- Clearing The Land
- The Railway Arrives
- The Village Grows
- The Campsbourne Estate
- Increasing Urbanisation
Hornsey was part of the Diocese of London from the seventh century and it is likely that the parish church of St Mary existed long before it was recorded in 1291. The Lord of the Manor of Hornsey was the Bishop of London who has always appointed the Rector of Hornsey. The medieval church of St. Mary became the dominant feature of Hornsey village. I...
Hornsey parish had always been heavily wooded, but from Tudor times it was gradually cleared and the land used mainly as permanent pasture or meadowland. The rural nature of Hornsey village, described in the 19th century as ‘long, irregular and scattered’ was at one time enhanced by the New River which crossed the High Street in three places ‘meand...
During the 19th century Hornsey village lost its centuries’ old rural character. In 1850 Hornsey railway station was opened on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) line cut through to the east of the village. The station was the first stop out of King’s Cross and attracted artisans (skilled workers) and clerks who worked in the City and wanted to live ...
In Hornsey village, land was often not released for building until an estate owner died or wished to move away from the new urban environment. The first changes to the status quo came in the mid-1860s. In 1865 the Birkbeck Freehold Land Company acquired the Grove House Estate, on the corner of Middle Lane and Hornsey High Street and built houses on...
Also in 1865 William Eady died. He owned Campsbourne Lodge, a house with beautiful grounds, below Alexandra Park. Two years later his family sold the estate to the British Land Company which built streets of small houses on it which became known as the Campsbourne estate. The long-standing Rector of Hornsey, Canon Richard Harvey, resisted disposal ...
A series of events exacerbated Hornsey’s urbanisation. In 1890 Thomas Marsh Lister died and his Ladywell estate, next to Hornsey railway station, was sold. Ribblesdale and Gisburn Roads were cut across Lister’s land. The developers called the estate Lister Park. In 1896 Sir Joseph Warner died, the head of the Warner family which owned the large Pri...
HORNSEY, a metropolitan suburb, a parish, and a sub-district, in Edmonton district, Middlesex. The suburb stands in a pleasant valley, on the New river, and on the Great Northern railway, 5½ miles NNW of St. Paul's, London; was known at Domesday as Haringe, and afterwards as Harringay; forms now a favourite retreat of London citizens; includes ...
Hornsey’s boundaries are a little blurry, but they are roughly situated between Alexandra Park, Crouch End and Turnpike Lane. The residential streets feature a mixture of purpose built council housing, modern developments and Victorian terraces, while Hornsey High Street has supermarkets, shops and a few interesting restaurants.
Hornsey’s history as a parish and administrative area goes back to at least the 13 th century. For most of that time, Hornsey was a rural backwater in the county of Middlesex but, with the coming of the railways in the 1850s, developers realised the opportunity to create a suburb.
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Hornsey is a district in London Borough of Haringey in north London in England. Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name refers only to the London district.
