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Gibson Gardens with original cobblestone paving (December 2005) Gibson Gardens is a historic tenement block of flats in Stoke Newington in London, England.. The flats were built by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes in 1880 and named in honour of Thomas Field Gibson, who was a Director of the Association from its inception.
Stoke Newington is an area in the northwest part of the London Borough of Hackney, England.The area is five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of Charing Cross.The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington, the ancient parish.
Abney Park (within the cemetery) in 2021. Abney Park is in Stoke Newington, London, England.It is a 13-hectare (32-acre) park dating from just before 1700, named after Lady Abney, the wife of Sir Thomas Abney, Lord Mayor of London in 1700 and one of the first directors of the Bank of England and associated with Isaac Watts, who laid out an arboretum.
Stoke Newington Common is an open space in the London Borough of Hackney It lies between Brooke Road to the south and Northwold Road to the north, straddling a railway line and the busy Rectory Road. The common is 2.15 hectares (5.3 acres) in area.
Stoke Newington was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish , used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England . Civil parish
Stoke Newington's boundaries with the two neighbouring metropolitan boroughs within the County of London were as follows: [7] Islington to the west and south: the centres of Blackstock Road, Mountgrove Roads, Green Lanes, (diverting to take in Petherton Road and Leconfield Road) Matthias Road and Boleyn Road.
The road links Green Lanes (A105) in the west to Stoke Newington High Street (the A10, formerly Ermine Street), in the east. Stoke Newington is one of the villages swallowed by the growth of London in the 19th century, and Church Street retains some of this neighbourhood feel, with many restaurants, pubs, and independent (non-chain) shops.
The section from Bethnal Green Junction to Stoke Newington with stations at Cambridge Heath, London Fields, Hackney Downs, Rectory Road, and Stoke Newington opened on 27 May 1872. The remainder opened on 22 July 1872 with stations at Stamford Hill , Seven Sisters , Bruce Grove , White Hart Lane , Silver Street , and Edmonton , [ 1 ] then to ...