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Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village . It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line , between East Finchley and Archway stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 3 .
The station was renamed Archway (Highgate) on 11 June 1939 [11] [12] (after the nearby road bridge over the deep cutting containing Archway Road). On 3 July 1939, the line was extended to the Great Northern Railway's station at Highgate and East Finchley station as part of the New Works Programme .
Cromwell House was commissioned by Sir Richard Sprignell, who was born about 1603, the eldest son of Robert Sprignell, Esquire (1560–1624) and Susan Daniell, and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated in January 1620 aged seventeen and graduated BA in February 1622.
On 11 January 1941, during the Blitz, 56 people were killed and 69 were seriously injured when a German bomb hit the booking hall, with the blast travelling down the stairs and escalators to the platforms. The crater, measuring 120 by 100 feet (37 m × 30 m), was covered with a Bailey bridge for the traffic to pass over. The station itself was ...
Highgate is best known for the Victorian Highgate Cemetery, in which the Communist philosopher Karl Marx and the novelist George Eliot are buried, along with many other notable people. [6] Adjoining is Holly Village, the first gated community , built in 1865, which is a Grade II* listed site.
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The Elms on Fitzroy Park is also listed Grade II as is its entrance lodge, pedestrian entrance, and garden wall. [9] [10] [11] The Elms was designed by George Basevi and built between 1838 and 1840. It has been subsequently altered. [9] The average price of a property on Fitzroy Park was estimated at £5.1 million in 2021.
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