Hornsey
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Hornsey is 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.
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.
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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.
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 Doragh Gasworks, 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.
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- ^ a b Vision of Britain - Hornsey St Mary parish history
- ^ Vision of Britain - Hornsey St Mary parish (historic map)
