Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOKE-NEWINGTON

STOKE-NEWINGTON, a metropolitan suburb and a parish in Middlesex. The suburb lies adjacent to the New River and the North London railway, 3¼ miles N by E of St. Paul's, London; grew around a village, anciently called Neweton; extends now, beyond its own proper parish, into the parishes of West Hackney, Hornsey, and Islington; and has post-offices7dd. under London S, and a police station. The parish is a sub-district of Hackney district, and comprises 639 acres. Real property, £40,528. Pop. in 1851, 4,840; in 1861, 6,608. Houses, 1,040. The manor belonged, before the Norman conquest, to St. Paul's cathedral; was vested, at an early period, in a prebend of that cathedra1; was held, under the prebendaries, by the Pattens, the Dudleys, the Pophams, the Gunstons, the Abneys, and the Eades; and has passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £820.* Patron, the Bishop of L. The old church was rebuilt in 1563; and is a brick edifice, with tower and spire. The new church was opened in 1858, but not completed till 1863; and is a spacious and noble edifice, in a style between early English and decorated. St. Matthias' chapelry, constituted in 1848, and partly in Hornsey parish, is a separate charge, a p. curacy, £265,* in the patronage of alternately the Crown and the Bishop. There are several dissenting chapels, several public schools, a lunatic asylum, an invalid asylum for females, and charities £94. See Abney-Park.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a metropolitan suburb and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stoke Newington Vest/CP/AP       Middlesex AncC
Place names: NEWETON     |     STOKE NEWINGTON
Place: Stoke Newington

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