West Green, London
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  West Green Location within Greater London | |
| Population | 13,372 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TQ324892 |
| • Charing Cross | 5.7 mi (9.2 km) S |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | N15, N17 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| UK Parliament | |
| London Assembly | |
West Green is a district in north London, England, in the United Kingdom; within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located 5.7 miles (9.22 km) north of Charing Cross.
The area is mainly residential and includes both
History
West Green developed as a small village in the
Sixteen years ago no more rural village could have been found within five miles of the General Post Office than West Green. It was as utterly in the country as though situated a hundred miles from London, and by a natural consequence it was country in its ways, habits, and manners. The various lanes leading to it from Stamford Hill, Tottenham, Hornsey, and Southgate were rural, which they certainly are not now…As for Hanger Lane, no one had yet dreamed of the evil days to come, when mushroom villas should be built upon the ground that not long before was regarded as an irreclaimable morass—when at first a tavern and then a church (the two invariable pioneers of that which, for some unknown reason, we call civilisation) appeared on the scene, and brought London following at their heels . . . when, in a word, Hanger Lane should be improved off the face of the earth and in the interest of speculative builders... called, as it is at present, St. Ann’s Road, it has only taken sixteen years to change West Green from an extremely pretty village to an eminently undesirable suburb.[3]
By 1890 the urbanisation of the area was complete.[4]
Education
Park View is a secondary school located in the area. The school is situated next to Downhills Park.
Transport and locale
Nearest places
Nearest tube station
- Turnpike Lane tube station
- Seven Sisters tube station
Nearest railway stations
- South Tottenham railway station
- Seven Sisters station
- Harringay Green Lanes station
Buses
London bus routes 41, 67, 230, 341, N41 and W4 serve West Green.[5]
See also
- West Green railway station
- Palace Gates Line
References
- ^ "Haringey Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ Although within the parish and later borough of Tottenham, West Green has been identified as a separate village for hundreds of years - British History Online
- ^ Riddell, Mrs J.H. (1874). Above Suspicion. Tinsley Brothers.
- ^ 'Tottenham: Growth before 1850', A History of the County of Middlesex, Volume 5: 1976, pp. 313-17
- ^ "Buses from West Green (Harringay)" (PDF). Transport for London.
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