Highbury New Park
Street in Islington, London
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
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
- C. Washington Eves, No. 49. West Indies Merchant.
- David Gestetner, No. 124. Inventor.
In literature
14 Highbury New Park is the setting of The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield (1972).
See also
- Highbury Park
References
- ^ 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
- "Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb" by T.F.M.Hinchcliffe in London Journal, 1981, pp. 29–44.
External links
Media related to Highbury New Park at Wikimedia Commons
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