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Upper Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington, London, centred on the A1 Holloway Road.

Overview

The name has fallen out of common use and the area is generally regarded as being a part of Archway or Holloway. The use of 'Upper Holloway' is most often used for Upper Holloway railway station. Upper Holloway is the original designation of the N19 postal district and the term is still used by the Royal Mail.

Media

The classic late Victorian comic novel Diary of a Nobody is set in Upper Holloway. The BBC's BBC Doomsday Project has some content for this area here:. Digital Public art project landscape-Portrait asked respondents about themselves and their area. The responses below relate to the postcode N19 4EH which is in Tollington ward in Upper Holloway.

v t e London Borough of Islington
Districts	Angel Archway Barnsbury Canonbury Clerkenwell Finsbury Finsbury Park Highbury Highgate Holloway Islington King's Cross Lower Holloway Mildmay Nag's Head Newington Green Pentonville Shoreditch St Luke's Tufnell Park Upper Holloway
Attractions	Almeida Theatre Business Design Centre Emirates Stadium House of Detention museum Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art Hen and Chickens Theatre Islington Green War Memorial Islington Local History Centre Islington Museum King's Head Theatre Little Angel Theatre London Canal Museum Museum of the Order of St John The Old Red Lion Sadler's Wells Theatre St Luke Old Street Union Chapel Wesley's Chapel
Street markets	Camden Passage Chapel Market Exmouth Market Nag's Head Market Whitecross Street Market
Parks and open spaces	Artillery Ground Barnsbury Wood Bingfield Park Bunhill Fields Claremont Square Freightliners City Farm Gillespie Park Highbury Fields Islington Green Joseph Grimaldi Park King Square Gardens Newington Green Parkland Walk Quaker Gardens Spa Fields St Mary Magdalene Gardens Whittington Park
Constituencies	Islington South and Finsbury Islington North
Tube and rail stations	Angel Archway Arsenal Caledonian Road Canonbury Crouch Hill Drayton Park Essex Road Farringdon Finsbury Park Highbury and Islington Holloway Road Old Street Tufnell Park Upper Holloway
Other topics	Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools
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1. http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/11july_current_non-geos-original.pdf
2. See: http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000011284

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