Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Origin
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Haggerston is first recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Hergotestane'', possibly of Viking origin, and an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. On Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, the village is shown as ''Agostone''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45254 'The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 505-24] accessed: 6 December 2006 but by the 19th century it had become part of the growing urban sprawl, with factories and streets of workers' cottages lining the canal.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Today
The proximity to Hoxton and Shoreditch has made the area popular with students and workers in the creative industries, as these nearby areas have grown more expensive. In recent years, escalating property prices have driven commercial art galleries further into east London, which has exacerbated this effect.
A shortage of secondary school places has made the area less attractive to families but this is likely to change with the building of a Academy (England) on Laburnum Street.
Many Vietnamese people, Khmer people and Lao people people have formed communities in Haggerston and nearby Shoreditch. Outside the area, the most visible sign of this is the profusion of Southeast Asian restaurants on nearby Kingsland Road in Shoreditch and on Mare Street in Hackney. There is also a notable Russians community focused on bars and cafés along Kingsland Road.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Amenities
Besides the Regents Canal, Haggerston Park, on the site of a demolished gasworks on Hackney Road, provides much-needed open space in the area. Also in the area is the Hackney City Farm.
The listed building Haggerston Baths, designed by Alfred Cross and opened in 1904, was closed in 2000. In June 2009, after a long community campaign, a £5m grant was announced from the Department for Children, Schools and Families to refurbish and re-open the pool. The building would also contain community facilities and a GP surgery.[http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshkyg&itemid=WeED25 Jun 2009 15%3A50%3A58%3A487 ''Cash for historic baths—what the Edwardians did for us''] Peter Sherlock 25 June 2009 (''Hackney Gazette'') accessed 27 June 2009
Haggerston School is a Grade II listed building, designed by modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger and built in 1964–65.
The ''All Saints Centre'' in Haggerston Road has a long association with clowning—the church hosting an annual "Clowns service" to commemorate Joseph Grimaldi. It housed the ''Clowns Gallery and Museum'', founded in 1960, and the clown archive. This included props and a unique collection of painted eggs, serving as the 'registration' of clowns' make-up. Much of the collection is now on display at Wookey Hole, but the church retains a small exhibition.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Ward
The Haggerston electoral ward forms part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.
The ward returns three councillors to Hackney Council, with an election every four years. At the election on London local elections, 2010, Ann Munn, Jonathan McShane, and Barry Buitekant, all Labour Party (UK) candidates, were returned. Turnout was 54%; with 5,006 votes cast.[http://www.hackney.gov.uk/haggerston-result.htm ''Council Elections 2006 results for Haggerston''] (LB Hackney) accessed 11 May 2010
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Notable residents
* Edmund Halley, astronomer, was born here in 1656.
* Gillian McIver, filmmaker, writer
* Iain Sinclair, writer
* Nazir Tanbouli, artist
* Lasse Johansson, filmmaker
* Rachel Whiteread, sculptor
* William Randal Cremer Liberal Party (UK) Member of Parliament for Haggerston (UK Parliament constituency), pacifism and winner of the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize.
* Owen James, economist, was raised here.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Education
Secondary schools in the area include Haggerston School and The Bridge Academy.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
Transport
{{Geographic Location
| title = '''Neighbouring areas of Haggerston'''
| Northwest = De Beauvoir Town
| North = Dalston
| Northeast = London Fields
| West = Hoxton
| Centre = Haggerston
| East = Cambridge Heath
| Southwest = Hoxton
| South = Shoreditch
| Southeast = Bethnal Green
}}
Railway stations
* Haggerston railway station, served by London Overground.
* Cambridge Heath railway station, served by Greater Anglia.
Walking and cycling
The Regents Canal towpath is easily accessible to pedestrians and cyclists. It provides access to Victoria Park, East London to the east and Islington to the west.
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
References
Haggerston is an area and an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, in northeast London, UK. It is bounded by Hackney Road to the south, Kingsland Road to the west, Middleton Road to the north, with London Fields and Broadway Market to the east. In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities.
The area today has the highest crime rate of the borough of Hackney.http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00AMGJ&sort=rate&order=a
External links
* [http://www.haggerstoncommunity.org.uk/ Haggerston Community Centre]
* [http://www.haggerstonpool.com/history.htm Opening Haggerston Pool 1904]
* [http://www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk/ Hackney City Farm]
* [http://www.hackney.gov.uk/haggerston-ward-profile.pdf Haggerston ward profile]
* [http://www.hackney-labour.org.uk/620a0b40-6bc0-b644-35b5-3fb384425db2?PageId=33114d75-1e60-e834-0d54-0da389f5c851 Labour Party profile of Jonathan McShane]
* [http://www.hackney-labour.org.uk/620a0b40-6bc0-b644-35b5-3fb384425db2?PageId=ff2d70cf-93fe-8eb4-3dc2-bb9468b57b88 Labour Party profile of Barry Buitekant]
* [http://www.clownsinternational.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=17 The Clowns' Gallery, Museum and Archive]
* [http://www.lnhs.org.uk/ London Natural History Society website] ''"one of the largest societies of its kind anywhere in the world"''
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/86/a9023186.shtml Terrence Mahoney's Wartime memories of Haggerston]
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