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| Haggerston | ||
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| PostCode District | E2, E8 | |
| Borough | London Borough of Hackney | |
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Haggerston is an area in East London and is in the London Borough of Hackney, and is considered to be a part of the East End.
Toponymy[]
In 1086, Haggerston was first recorded in Domesday Book as Hergotestane,[1] that probably derives from a Saxon farmer called Hærgod, who either had a ‘ton’ (farmstead) here or a stone that marked the boundary of his land.[2] It then appeared in Roque’s map of 1745 shows it as a village called Agostone.[3]
Cityscape[]
Haggerston is defined as stretching from Hoxton Station in the south to the northern edge of Stonebridge Garden, reaching to London Fields to the east, and running up Kingsland Road.[4]
History[]
Haggerston appears in the Domesday Book as Hergotestane, an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch and appeared in Roque’s map of 1745 shows it called Agostone.[5]
Edmond Halley was born on November 8th 1656, in Haggerston, then a village,[6] known as the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet that was later named after him,[7] Halley's Comet.[8]
Haggerston became part of the urban sprawl[9] as a densely populated industrial suburb of London in the 19th century, with the dominant industries of Haggerston being furniture and finishing trades. An insurance map of 1930 showed timber yards and other related trades.[10]
Nichols Square was a development built in 1841, and featured two rows of Tudor gothic villas at its centre, and was later enhanced in 1867-9 by the addition of St Chad's church. In 1963, Nichols Square was demolished by a compulsory purchase order in order to build the Fellows Court Estate.[11]
The Cat & Mutton Bridge that span over the Regent's Canal, still carries the name of a former alehouse which stood on the site at the extreme right, closed since at least 1919. The present pub on a new site was built in 1909 as the Sir Walter Scott but is now known as La Vie en Rose.[12]
Ronald and Reginald Kray, identical twins known as the Kray twins, were born on 24 October 1933, [13] on Stean Street [14] to Charles David Kray, a wardrobe dealer.[15]
Haggerston Park was developed in two phases, the previously industrial northern half of the site became a public park in the late 1950s and the southern part of the park was fully developed in the 1980s. Formerly the site was the Shoreditch Gas Works.[16]
PC Laurence Brown was responding to a 999 call along Pownall Road in Orwell Court on the Suffolk Estate, when Mark Gaynor, an unemployed 20-year-old, pulled out a shotgun and fired directly into him. He then collapsed in a car park off Pownall Road where he died.[17]
Due to the 2009 financial downturn, Hackney Borough Council had remove funding for the reopening of the Haggerston Baths, which sparked a campaign for efforts to find financial backing and public support in an effort to re-open the the East End oldest bath.[18]
Representation[]
Haggerston is the name of a ward in the Hackney Borough Council, covering much of the area.[19] While a small part, mainly round Haggerston Station and Stonebridge Garden, fall under the London Fields ward. [20]
Transport[]
It is served by Haggerston Station on the London Overground East London Line.
London Buses routes 26, 55, 149, 236, 242, 243, 394, and night routes N26, N55 and N242 all serve Haggerston.
The Wikipedia page is [21].