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Hackney Central is a sub-district of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England and is four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross. The Hackney Central area is focused on Mare Street and the retail areas to the north of it including Narrow Way and surrounding local area around Hackney Downs railway station .
Hackney Central is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, located in the London Borough of Hackney. It lies between Dalston Kingsland and Homerton in Travelcard Zone 2 . [ 4 ] The station and the trains serving it are operated by Transport for London .
Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park .
Hackney Central was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1949, and again from 1955 until the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name .
Current opinion is that the name "hackney", to refer to a London taxi, is derived from the village name. [6] (Hackney, associated with high-stepping horses and horse-drawn carriages, is the root of the French word haquenée, a term used for a small breed of horse, [7] and the Sardinian achetta horse.) Construction of the railway in the 1850s ...
Hackney Central was a borough constituency in what was then the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, in London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
Hackney (electoral division), a division of the Greater London Council from 1965 to 1973 London Borough of Hackney , a local authority area created in 1965 Hackney Central , a sub-district of Hackney which forms the commercial and administrative centre
Hackney Central is a neighbourhood in London, England. Hackney Central could also refer to: Hackney Central railway station; Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency) Hackney Central (electoral division), Greater London Council; Hackney Central (London County Council constituency)