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Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area due to historic ecclesiastical links. Shoreditch lies just north-east of the border with the City of London and is considered to be a part of London's East End.
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Statistics compiled by the London County Council, in 1901 show the population growth in London, over the preceding century. The area of the borough in 1901 was 658 acres (2.7 km 2). The populations recorded in National Censuses were: Shoreditch Vestry 1801-1899
Shoreditch Park is an open space in Hoxton area of Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bounded by Poole Street (to the north), Rushton and Mintern Streets (to the south) and New North Road (west) and Pitfield Street (east). The park derives its name from the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, the local authority when it was ...
Haggerston was an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. On Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, it is shown as Agostone [3] but by the 19th century it had become Haggerstone, [4] Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656. [5] He is known as the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet that was later named after him, [6] Halley's Comet. [7]
The Shoreditch Empire, also known as the London Music Hall, which opened in 1856, was situated at 95–99 Shoreditch High Street. It lasted longer than most East End halls, but finally closed in 1934 and was demolished the following year. As it traverses modern-day inner city Shoreditch, the road is lined with (sometimes derelict) commercial ...
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
A map showing Kingsland ward of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. A map showing the Kingsland ward of Hackney Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. Kingsland derives its name from being the hunting grounds of a Tudor royal residence at Newington Green – hence King's Lands.