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For "Upper Holloway", an area of the village of Holloway, in Derbyshire, see Holloway, Derbyshire. Human settlement in England
Upper Holloway
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A map showing the Upper Holloway ward of Islington Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.

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

History

Toponymy

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.

Urban development

Upper Holloway was one of several hamlets within the ancient parish of St Mary Islington.

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.

What is it like to live in this area ?
What sort of people live in your neighbourhood ?
How you been able to make friends here ?

References

  1. http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/11july_current_non-geos-original.pdf
  2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol8/pp1-3
  3. See: http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000011284
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