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Caledonian Road in the London Borough of Islington, England, connects North London, from Camden Road near its junction with Holloway Road, and central London's Pentonville Road in the south. A mile and a half long, it is known colloquially as the Cally and forms the entirety of the A5203 .
The Caledonian Estate is a Grade II listed, early Edwardian estate towards the northern end of the Caledonian Road in Islington, London. It is situated next to Pentonville Prison . The Estate was built on the site of the classical Caledonian Asylum from which the Road took its name.
Caledonian Park Clock Tower, with the blocks of the estate behind. Market Estate is a public housing estate consisting of 271 flats and maisonettes situated to the north of Caledonian Park in the London Borough of Islington. It is named after the Metropolitan Cattle Market which operated on the site until the 1960s.
Diagram of Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington The newly opened market in a contemporary etching Inside the Metropolitan Meat Market. The Metropolitan Cattle Market (later Caledonian Market), just off the Caledonian Road in the parish of Islington (now the London Borough of Islington) was built by the City of London Corporation and was opened in June 1855 by Prince Albert.
Caledonian Road & Barnsbury is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, located in the London Borough of Islington in north London. The station is situated in Travelcard Zone 2 . There is an official out-of-station interchange with Caledonian Road tube station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground , located a 660 ...
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The market at Smithfield in the City of London has been in operation for over 800 years. By the mid-Victorian era, the development of London had made the transportation of livestock into the centre of the city problematic and in 1852 the Smithfield Market Removal Act was passed, allowing for the construction of a new Metropolitan Cattle Market on the site of a demolished mansion, Copenhagen ...
Its long residence in Islington resulted in the naming of Caledonian Market and the Caledonian Road. [3] In 1852 Queen Victoria became Patron and the Asylum was renamed the Royal Caledonian Schools, although legally it was and still is the "Caledonian Asylum". [3] At that time it catered for about 70 boys and 50 girls. [4]