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Highbury New Park is a street in
in and there are now a large number of
Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury
Highbury is a district in North London and part of the London Borough of Islington
in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor house was situ ...
in the London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Islington ( ) is a London borough in Inner London. Whilst the majority of the district is located in north London, the borough also includes a significant area to the south which forms part of central London. Islington has ...
which runs from Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove
Highbury is a district in North London and part of the London Borough of Islington
in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor house was situ ...
in the south.
Buildings
The road was developed by Henry Rydon from 1853 in order to attract prosperous city businessmen to the area"Highbury"in and there are now a large number of
grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
Victorian villas in the road.
Notable former residents
* C. Washington Eves, No. 49. West Indies Merchant. *David Gestetner
David Gestetner (31 March 18548 March 1939) was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous copies of documents quickly and inexpensively. He also invented the nail c ...
, No. 124. Inventor.
In literature
14 Highbury New Park is the setting of ''The Ghost Downstairs'' byLeon Garfield
Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted '' Shakespeare: The Animated Tal ...
(1972).
See also
* Highbury ParkReferences
Further reading
*"Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb" by T.F.M.Hinchcliffe in ''London Journal'', 1981, pp. 29–44.External links
Streets in the London Borough of Islington Highbury {{London-stub