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Whilst the early residents of Harringay continued to use that name, in official documents from the early twentieth century the Borough of Hornsey referred to it as Haringey, which became the name of the London Borough of Haringey, created in 1964 when the Boroughs of Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham merged. A letter from a council officer in ...
From 1965 Harringay formed part of the new London borough of Haringey, incorporating the former municipal boroughs of Hornsey and Tottenham and controlled by the Labour Party since 1971. [30] After the reorganisation of parliamentary constituencies in 1982 all of it was included within the Tottenham constituency.
The London Borough of Haringey (/ ˈ h ær ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ / ⓘ HARR-ing-gay, same as Harringay) [1] is a London borough in north London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London. It was created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs. It shares borders with six other London boroughs.
The workman's fare policy stimulated the relatively early development of the area into a London suburb. In 1894, Tottenham was made an urban district and on 27 September 1934 it became a municipal borough. As from 1 April 1965, the municipal borough formed part of the London Borough of Haringey together with Hornsey and Wood Green.
Former civil parishes in the London Borough of Haringey (1 P) Pages in category "History of the London Borough of Haringey" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Over the 130 years covered by this article London’s phenomenal growth was to have a decisive and permanent effect on Harringay. In 1750 London’s population stood at 700,000. By 1801 it was close to a million and became Europe’s largest city; thirty years later this figure had climbed to nearly 1.7 million and it had become the world’s ...
The London Borough of Haringey and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Hornsey, Tottenham and Wood Green. The new council formally came into ...
Harringay [2] (pronounced / ˈ h ær ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ / HARR-ing-gay) is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. [3] It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the New River, where it crosses Green Lanes by Finsbury Park, and Duckett's Common, near Turnpike Lane.