Dalston

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About Dalston

Dalston is centered around Kinglsand High Road (Dalston Kingsland) and is dominated by the Turkish Community in London, which makes it one of the best places to find authentic Turkish Restaurants. But there is also a sizeable Vietnamese Community and West Indian Community Mare Street and Dalston Lane , form an integral part of the area, along with iconic buildings such as the Rio Cinema. There is also the Arcola Theatre .

Dalston History

The name Dalston iderives from Deorlaf’s tun (farm) in much the same way as nearby Hoxton was named after the farm of ‘Hoch’.

The village was one of four small villages within the Parish of Hackney, Dalston, Newington, Shacklewell, and Kingsland that were all grouped for assessment purposes .

John Rocque's map of 1746 shows the village of Kingsland centered around the crossroads at Dalston Junction and the small village of Dalston further east along Dalston Lane.

Around AD 1280 a leper hospital was founded in Dalston by the citizens of London and in AD 1549 it was attached to the chapel of St Bartholomew as an outhouse.

During the 18th and 19th Centuries the area changed from an agricultural and rural landscape to urban one. By 1849, it was described as a suburban village, with some "handsome old houses", and by the year 1859 the village had exceeded its neighbours in size and with the railways and continuous building, the village of Kingsland disappeared