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Highbury & Islington Holloway Road Caledonian Road Drayton Park G R D E D A E OA N R O LE R A D E L P S S T A OR R H R O E N U Finsbury Park T S E D I S G S R 1 Finsbury Park 9 Highbury Barn N N th . E Opened in 1869 by the In the late 18 century a rural R 1 V TOLLINGTON PARK MORAY ROAD F D E O S N . Metropolitan Board of Works as a pleasure resort for Londoners took T H I L Finsbury recreation area for the expanding form at the top of the hill. By the L population. Earlier plans for a much 1860s, the tea gardens, theatre and LENNOX ROAD Park R O 2 larger Albert Park were overtaken by dancing drew vast crowds and petty DURHAM ROAD A LORDSHIP PARK D development in Highbury. The park is criminals. After a riot led by students BLACKSTOCK ROAD now managed by Haringey Council. from Bart’s Hospital in 1869, P residents petitioned the magistrates HORNSEY ROAD 3 R A H R O Arsenal World of Sport and the pleasure gardens were built R M D 2 O IL R S A LY D T D Finsbury Park Station over. Today it’s still a noted area for . O T 7 O H D W T 020 7272 1000 refreshment and special food shopping. O A S M O N R A R OW S PL O R ’ IM A S S D B OL Clissold Park R L North London Clock Tower & O 3 10 SU A D D D R SSE A E Central Mosque Christ Church O A L X R B W O M QUILL ST QUILL The small cast iron clock tower by A S A Y R R E T N St Thomas’s Christ Church was built in 1897 R 4 S MONSELL ROADCHATTERTON ROAD I O O S A AD AD D O Church (1888-9) to commemorate Queen Victoria’s D R E N E L E A th L D 60 anniversary. V S HURLOCK S I R E 4 STREET E Gillespie Park Local S IV 5 Gillespie Park R Nature Reserve & 11 Florence Trust Studios, Islington Ecology Centre Aberdeen Park Arsenal OOD STREET T 020 7354 5162 Studios in the former St Saviour’s GILLESPIE ELW ROAD HERTSLET ROAD AV EET A range of wildlife habitats including Church offer professional visual artists OOD STR 5 ENELL CONEW H D DRAYTO woodland, meadow, wetland and short-term residencies. Watch for Open A 6 SOTHEBY ROAD O R I R G ponds. Activities for children and Studio events to see finished work and N OAD H H O ELFORT N T I A G adults; Organic Café in the summer; to meet and talk with the artists – and P H B NORTHOLME ROAD G H O ARK I N G B H U I U R R B community festival in September. to see the interior of this church made L Arsenal 8 R U R L OAD Y R C G LU Y Stadium ERN O N N E RO Y AD R Closed when Arsenal plays at home. famous by Betjeman’s poem. T H E I W O L E L P I Main entrance in Drayton Park. T 7354 4771 or 7354 0460 P A E HOLLOW A B R KELROSS ROAD N K R L AUBERT PARK A K L 6 Arsenal Stadium 12 Highbury Place A N Built on the playing fields of a The development of Highbury AY ROAD HIGHB URY GRANG E A E B S ROAD E former theological college after the began here in the 1770s. The south 9 R D E PETHERTON ROAD football club moved from Woolwich in entrance was originally gated and the E N CALEDONIAN ROAD R H lease specified that Highbury Fields O 1913. As well as being able to watch I G A H D B some of the best of English football, would remain open. U R LE Y IGH RO Drayton Park H AD ROAD I IN there’s more to see. The club’s LL KEL V museum is open on Fridays 9.30 – Highbury & Islington 13 10 4.00. Tours take place Mon – Fri, Station H I 11 but appointments are needed. Connections with the Victoria ME WS G And there’s the Gunners Shop. Underground line, Silverlink Metro (for Holloway H PARK TON AY B T 020 7704 4000 Richmond & North Woolwich), and Road DR U ABERDEEN PARK www.arsenal.co.uk WAGN (for Moorgate & north). R ROAD Y CHURCH PATH LANE A station at Highbury Corner opened ABER DE EN G HIGHBURY TERRACE HIGHBURY TERRACE MILDMAY PARK 7 Blackstock Road in 1848 and was replaced in 1872 R BAALBEC ROAD O Notable for the number and by a grand building with a hotel that K V R PA W E NE variety of locally-owned cafés and was destroyed in the war. The T Y N R D CE U S B R E H restaurants clustered at the north end Underground arrived in 1904. R G C I E H ENU LDWAY CR Y AV FIE ES NOR N H . R Highbury Fields VE and near Gillespie Road. A good place ROS U G R O B 15 E H L C G to begin or end a walk. Watch too for Highbury Fields Central G A 14 L I L H O Library P N Mix, the amazing hardware shop. Pool & Gym W Y Caledonian R O Paradise A Highbury Fields U Canonbury T T 020 7704 2312 OAD Y B G H Road R Park pool & gym N G I IE I Z R St Joan of Arc RC Church H 8 EN L O 14 W ACK I A A ‘modernised Gothic’ church of Central Public Library M V 15 D D E R E M ’ S R O N A 12 P A U L A D 1960-62; parabolic arches span the 2 Fieldway Crescent N5 R CORSICA STREET GH S T IN P ER spacious interior. T 020 7527 6900 SH O O H T L R O Highbury 13 N R K ROMAN WAY COM R EET O A P E STR & Islington ID A PTON ROAD Y BR R D U B UPPER ST N O C N O A C D M P TO N T E . R D RA RENG C LEF E X IELD OFFORD ROAD RY RD ON BU E CAN S.
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