N8 Crouch End, Hornsey, Turnpike Lane
Harringay Origins |
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The Harringay Ladder is a planned Victorian suburb that was built over an ancient patch of woodland called the Brownswood. Going back 800 years, Brownswood was the manor of the middle Saxon chief Haering, after whom Haering's Hege (Haering's enclosure) was named. |
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This historic name got corrupted twice. Harenshege became Hornsey in the west and up the hill, while the name 'Harringay' applied to the Brownswood house, and eventually became the name of the neighbourhood. |
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In the 1960s, not to advocate one corrupted name over the other, the Corporation of London decided to name their new northern borough 'Haringey' and plenty of confusion continues as to all these similar, but different, monikers. |
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