Nag's Head is a locality within the Holloway area of the

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Toponymy

The area is named after the Nag's Head

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. The pub, also previously called the Mustang Diner and O'Neills, closed in 2004; the original early Victorian building is in use today as a gambling establishment.

Governance

Nag's Head Town Centre, a shopping arcade between Morrisons and Selby's, is governed by the Nag's Head Town Centre Management Group.

Geography

The name refers to the junction of

Holloway Road Holloway Road is a road in London, in length. It is one of the main shopping streets in North London, and carries the A1 road as it passes through Holloway, in the London Borough of Islington. The road starts in Archway, near Archway Under ...

(the A1) with Seven Sisters Road, where the Nag's Head pub stood, and also to the surrounding area, particularly the stretch of Holloway Road between the former pub and its junction with Camden Road.

Economy

The area is identified in the

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as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. The shopping and entertainment area includes the Nag's Head Market (behind

on the northwest corner of Hertslet Road) and the Nag's Head Shopping Centre. It hosts a

James Selby Morleys Stores is a group of eight department stores in Greater London, a business-to-business furniture supply subsidiary called Morley's of Bicester Ltd and a department store & furniture centre called Camp Hopson of Newbury in Newbury, Berks ...

department store. In 1975, McDonalds chose Nags Head to open their second restaurant in the UK, (the first being in Woolwich) situated at the former Burtons Mensware store in Seven Sisters Road.

References

{{Areas of London Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Islington Major centres of London