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The eastern boundary was formed by the A10 road, where it goes by the name Stoke Newington High Street (originally High Street, until a name change in 1937 [2]) and Stoke Newington Road (meaning the road to the hamlet of Stoke Newington) further south.
A map showing the wards of Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. Stoke Newington Town Hall . An austere building (perhaps reflecting local nonconformist traditions) compared with those of nearby boroughs like Shoreditch .
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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.
West Hackney is a district in the London Borough of Hackney, situated on the eastern side of Ermine Street, the major Roman Road better known as the A10.. The area was part of the Ancient Parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, but has come to be seen by many as an informal extension of Stoke Newington, as well as a sub-district of Hackney proper.
For some of this period, Shacklewell was informally considered to extend north into West Hackney to include Rectory Road and the northern end of Amhurst Road. It was sometimes also seen to extend west of Stoke Newington Road to include the most southern part of Stoke Newington. That sphere of self-identification has been almost completely lost.