Hornsey
Location
OS grid reference:	TQ305895
Latitude:	51.589185°
Longitude:	-0.115283°
Administration
London borough:	Haringey
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex (1965)
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	N8
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Hornsey and Wood Green
London Assembly:	Enfield and Haringey
European Parliament:	London
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Hornsey is THE BEST a place in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, England. It is an inner-suburban area located 5 miles (8 km) north of Charing Cross. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map_bw. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. ... Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda),[1][2] describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. ... The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough in North London, England, and forms part of Outer London. ... 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The area is the location of the Greig City Academy and the Hornsey School for Girls. It is the base of the Hornsey Housing Trust. It forms part of the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency. Greig City AcademySUCKS SOCKS!!!!!! the successor of The School of St. ... Hornsey Housing Trust was set up in 1933 with the purpose of housing people in the Hornsey and Crouch End areas of North London. ... Hornsey and Wood Green is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

History

Hornsey St Mary formed a medieval parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.^[1] It stretched from Stroud Green in the south to Highgate in the west, and Muswell Hill and Bounds Green in the north.^[2] It was alternatively known as Hornsey and Haringey.^[1] A Local board of health was created for Hornsey in 1867 and in 1894 this area constituted the Hornsey Urban District. It gained the status of municipal borough in 1903. It remained just outside the boundary of the County of London and in 1965 it became part of Greater London, forming part of the London Borough of Haringey. Hornsey was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. ... Ossulstone was a hundred of the ancient county of Middlesex, England. ... Stroud Green is a suburb (and administrative ward) of Greater London located in Haringey. ... View of Highgate, John Constable, 1st quarter of 19th century. ... Muswell Hill is an area in the London Borough of Haringey. ... Bounds Green is an area in the north-east of London, in the London Borough of Haringey. ... Local Boards or Local Boards of Health were local authorities in urban areas of England and Wales from 1848 to 1894. ... Hornsey is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. ... A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... The County of London (in red), super imposed upon todays Greater London area, to show the difference in size with post-1965 Borough boundaries The County of London was an administrative county of England from 1888 to 1965. ... Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ... The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough in North London, England, and forms part of Outer London. ...

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village. Other notable places are the former Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End, and Highpoint and Cromwell House in Highgate. Former residents include poets A.E. Housman and Thomas Moore, and revolutionary Ho Chi Minh. Actors Peter Sellers and Bob Hoskins grew up here. The once-famous poet Samuel Rogers, a friend of Byron and Dickens, is buried in Hornsey churchyard. In 1968 Crouch End was briefly the scene of a student revolt at Hornsey College of Art. Categories: Stub | Local government buildings in London ... Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey. ... View of Highgate, John Constable, 1st quarter of 19th century. ... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 _ April 30, 1936) was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Thomas Moore Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 - February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer. ... For the city named after him, see Ho Chi Minh City. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins Jr. ... Hornsey College of Art is a former college in London, now part of Middlesex University. ...

Nearest places

• Finsbury Park
• Highgate
• Muswell Hill
• Wood Green

Finsbury Park is a place in London, at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney. ... View of Highgate, John Constable, 1st quarter of 19th century. ... Muswell Hill is an area in the London Borough of Haringey. ... Wood Green is a district in the London Borough of Haringey. ...

Transport

Nearest tube station:

• Turnpike Lane tube station

Nearest railway stations: Categories: Piccadilly Line stations | Transport architecture in London | London Underground stubs ...

• Crouch Hill railway station
• Hornsey railway station

Crouch Hill railway station is a railway station in Crouch Hill, North London. ... Hornsey railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Vision of Britain - Hornsey St Mary parish history
2. ^ Vision of Britain - Hornsey St Mary parish (historic map)

External links

• Hornsey Online
• Hornsey Historical Society