Duckett's Green is an area of

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, England in the

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. It is an inner-suburban area located 5.8 miles (9.4 km) north of Charing Cross. The area is mainly residential and borders Duckett's Common. Its area is roughly defined by West Green Road to the south-west, Belmont Road to the south-east, Ivatt Way and Langham Road to the north-east, Westbury Avenue to the north and Turnpike Lane Bus Station to the north-west.

History

The area takes its name from one of the manors of

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, Dovecotes, or Duckett's. The manor house itself was situated further north in the centre of what is today

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. Settlement is first recorded at Duckett's Green in 1293. With agriculture being the main activity in this small area, population remained sparse until the middle of the nineteenth century. By 1860 a few houses had been built along West Green Road just to the east of the junction with Green Lanes and stretching northward, facing Duckett's Common, as far as Duckett's farm-house, then called Dovecote House. Development had also begun along Milton Road.James Wyld's map of the Vicinity of London 1872.

Education

Transport and locale

Nearest places

Harringay Harringay (pronounced ) is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the New River, where it crosses Green Lanes by Finsbury Park, and Duckett' ...

* West Green *

Nearest tube station

Turnpike Lane tube station Turnpike Lane is a London Underground station at Turnpike Lane in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, England. The station is on the northeastern part of Piccadilly line between Manor House and Wood Green. The station was opene ...

Nearest railway stations

Hornsey railway station Hornsey railway station is in Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. It is on the Great Northern route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, down the line from , and is situated between to the south and to the nor ...

Bus routes

Routes 41, 29 serve the area.

Links

Duckett's Green shown on 'A New Topographical Map of the Country in the Vicinity of London, Describing all the New Improvements, Metropolitan Boroughs and Parish Boundaries c 1872' on the Mapco websitePhoto of the mid-nineteenth Century house in Duckett's Green along Green LanesDuckett's Green on Google Maps

References

{{LB Haringey Districts of the London Borough of Haringey Areas of London