Highbury New Park
Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington which runs from Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove in the south.
Buildings[edit]
The road was developed by Henry Rydon from 1853 in order to attract prosperous city businessmen to the area[1][2] and there are now a large number of grade II listed Victorian villas in the road.
Notable former residents[edit]
- C. Washington Eves, No. 49. West Indies Merchant.
- David Gestetner, No. 124. Inventor.
In literature[edit]
14 Highbury New Park is the setting of The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield (1972).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Bridget Cherry (2002). The buildings of England London 4: North. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 693. ISBN 0300096534.
- ^ "Highbury" in Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2010). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.
Further reading[edit]
- "Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb" by T.F.M.Hinchcliffe in London Journal, 1981, pp. 29–44.
External links[edit]
Media related to Highbury New Park at Wikimedia Commons
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