Haringey

Haringey Borough is in North London. It is distinguised from the Ward Haringay by the spelling. It covers a fairly large area, and incorporates more than a dozen wards. Geographically it is very diverse from the rich wooded areas around highgate, to the more poorer and urban Tottenham. It has a large ethnic population with a large Turkish Community around Hornsey and Wood Green. And a large Algerian community in Finsbury Park. Tottenham ethnic minorities are predominantly Black.

Haringey Area

Haringey Area or the wards of Haringey are Haringay, Haringay Takeaway, Haringey, Haringey Borough, Hornsey, Hornsey Takeaway, Muswell Hill, Muswell Hill Takeaway, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Tottenham, Tottenham Takeaway, Turnpike Lane, Turnpike Lane Takeaway, Wood Green, Wood Green Takeaway, and Woodford Green The area contains large open spaces including Finsbury Park, Alexandra Park, Highgate Woods, and Lee Valley Park

There are also notable Historical woods - Highgate Woods, Queens Wood, Coldfall Wood , Bluebell Wood and North Wood.

Haringey Gov UK

Haringey Council overseas the Borough and the Coucil in Haringey have set the Council Tax according to the following Bands - Council Tax Bands The Council is responsible for Haringey Housing and Haringey Schools.

Famous People in Haringey

Haringey is not without its fair share of Famous People. Some of the Famous People who have lived in Haringey include David Tennant who lives in Crouch End and Ho Chi Minh who lived in West Ealing and Crouch End in Hornsey.

Haringey History

Haringey History

In Mediaval Times what we now know as "Haringey" was made up of two large manors, Hornsey and Tottenham. These became parishes with firm boundaries in 1300. In the Middle Ages, Tottenham's population consisted of 59 serfs, four slaves, two freemen and a priest. Wood Green, originally part of Tottenham Parish, became a separate district in 1888.

Many streets in Haringey now bear the names of aristocrats from centuries long gone: the Barons Coleraine, the Comptons, and Waltheof, Lord of Tottenham Manor and son of the Earl of Northumberland. Other local names, such as Wood Green, testify to the area’s past as woodland and countryside, some of which still survives in Haringey's parks.

Most of the streets built on the land to the west of Green Lanes were developed from 1881 by the British Land Company. Built up in two halves as the Harringay Park and Hornsey Station Estates, these streets became known as the 'Harringay Ladder', simply because they run east to west between Green Lanes and Wightman Road. Looking at it on a map, each street is a 'rung' on the Ladder between Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane. The Ladder has always been the poshest part of Harringay, and after years of decline it's recently led a bit of a comeback of the whole area. These days it's getting quite gentrified. Mercifully, it's not gone too far in that direction yet.

A large section of the streets on the east side, known as the 'Harringay Gardens, was built from the late 1890s on the land previously occupied by St John's Lodge Farm. They were built by the prolific self-made Scots builder JC Hill2. The houses are smaller than those on the Ladder, and have always been cheaper as a result.

Hill, safe in the knowledge that the local population was about to increase by 50%, also built an imposing row of shops along Green Lanes in 1899, known as Grand Parade. At the end of Grand Parade he built the Salisbury Hotel3, a huge and impressive building with a large billiard room, restaurant and concert hall. It's still there, still huge and impressive. By the end of the last century it had become distinctly shady and was given a wide berth by most locals. Strangely this neglect has worked in its favour. Its Victorian splendour has survived almost completely intact and a refurbishment just over five years ago has made it a spectacular slice of Victoriana and it's become once again a popular community hub.