LONDON CROSS | A straight line walk across London : with special reference to Haringey "If you walk across a great city such as London in two straight lines, south to north and east to west - a cross-section - what do you find? The basic concept of this book, London Cross, is simple - to describe a walk across London along a route that sticks as closely as possible (without trespassing) to a straight line. I chose the 300 easting (a south-north Ordnance Survey line), rather than the 307 or 323 eastings, for example, because it's one that is drawn on most modern maps, and because it cuts conveniently through the middle of London. My intention is to do a similar walk from east to west, thus creating a cross. I decided to start and finish both walks at the M25 since it provides a neat geographical boundary for the London area. Both walks are over 30 miles long as a crow would fly."
HISTORY | British History Online Hornsey including Highgate: Introduction; Communications; Growth before and after mid-19th Century; plus further sections of interest ... http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22515
HISTORY | Bruce Castle Museum Bruce Castle Museum Centenary Year 1906 - 2006. Bruce Castle opened as a Museum in 1906 and now houses the Borough of Haringey's local history collections and archives. http://tinyurl.com/ckqsv
HISTORY | Hidden London: Stroud Green "‘An interesting, not very well known, Victorian urban landscape’, according to local historian Ken Gay, situated north of Finsbury Park station and south of Hornsey Vale. The name is of 15th-century origin and indicated a marshy place overgrown with brushwood. The first large building here was Stapleton Hall (shown below), which was built in 1609 for Sir Thomas Stapleton, possibly on the site of an earlier house. " http://www.hidden-london.com/stroudgreen.html
HISTORY | Hornsey Historical Society "Whether you are new to the area, have lived here all your life, or have moved but want to keep in touch, you will find the Homsey Historical Society has much of interest to offer." http://hornseyhistorical.awardspace.com/index.html
HISTORY | Old Towns (maps of earlier LONDON; commercial) Hornsey is in the Finsbury division of Ossulston hundred, north of Islington. The area of the parish is 2,960 acres; the population in 1831, was 4,856. It contains the village of Hornsey, and the hamlets of Crouch End, Muswell Hill, and Stroud Green. Few villages near London have retained a more rural character than Hornsey. http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Middlesex/hornsey.htm
HISTORY | Stroud Green railway station A Wikipedia entry - 'It was located between Finsbury Park station and Crouch End station on the bridge over Stapleton Road. The station had platforms (now demolished) cantilevered from the bridge structure and a large station building at ground level. ... The station was built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and opened on the railway's existing Edgware, Highgate and London Line on 11 April 1881.' http://tinyurl.com/cbdc9
