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The Hackney area includes:

• Dalston
• Kingsland
• Homerton
• Clapton

Writer Grace Aguilar was born in Hackney. Daniel Defoe lived in Hackney. James Crump (1812-1892), the notable educator and founder of St. Aubyn's School, Woodford Green, also lived in Hackney with his family at 2 Castlewood Road for a short time from the late 1870s to the early 1880s. Mare Street is dominated by the newly re-opened Hackney Empire Music Hall, on whose stage appeared Charles Chaplin and Marie Lloyd - who lived in nearby Graham Road. Dalston is a place in Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney, England. ... This article is about the area of London. ... Grace Aguilar (1816 - 1847), a novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, was born at Hackney of Jewish parents of Spanish descent. ... Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660 â€“ April 24, 1731) was an English writer and journalist, who first gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. ... Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ... For the Jamaican musician named Charlie Chaplin, see Charlie Chaplin (singer). ... Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (February 12, 1870 - October 7, 1922), was a British music-hall singer . ...

Transport in Hackney

Central Hackney is well served by local bus routes, and is on the Silverlink rail line, but lacks an underground station. A Silverlink County train at Rugby (before the company stopped running to Rugby) Silverlink is a regional franchise in the British railway system, with routes in north London and from London to Northampton. ...

• Hackney Central railway station
• Hackney Downs railway station
• Homerton railway station

Hackney Central railway station is a railway station on the North London Line, in Hackney, East London. ... Hackney Downs railway station is in the London Borough of Hackney in east London. ... Homerton railway station is in the London Borough of Hackney in East London. ...

Heritage and Theatres in Hackney

• Hackney Empire
• Sutton House (National Trust)

See also

• Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
• Hackney carriage

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External Links

• About Hackney.com
• Meg Hillier Labour MP for Hackney South & Shoreditch.
• Hackney Labour Party Links to Labour Councillors, London Assembly Members and MEPs
• Hackney Independent Community politics in the London Borough of Hackney
• Silverlink Trains Serves Homerton and Hackney Central railway stations.