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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Islington like this:
Islington, parl. bor. and par. with ry. sta., Middlesex, in N. of London, 2½ miles N. of St Paul's, 3107 ac., pop. 282,865. Market-days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; was a country vil. at the beginning of the 19th century; the Agricultural Hall, the largest building of the kind in London (capable of holding 50,000 people), is situated in the par. Islington returns 4 members to parl. (4 divisions - namely, North, West, East, and South - 1 member for each division); it was made a parl. bor. in 1885.
Islington is now part of ISLINGTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how ISLINGTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Islington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Islington in Middlesex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/168
Date accessed: 24th January 2026
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