Hackney
Hackney was a parish in the historic county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney was built in 1792, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to St Augustine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Gravel Pit Chapel and Homerton railway station.
Gravel Pit Chapel
Cemetery
The Gravel Pit Chapel was established in 1715–1716 in Hackney, then just outside London, for a Nonconformist congregation, which by the early 19th century began to identify itself as Unitarian.
Homerton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homerton is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, located in the district of Homerton, East London. Situated in London fare zone 2, the current station opened on 13 May 1985 to coincide with the introduction of the Richmond to North Woolwich through electric passenger service.
London Fields railway station
Railway station
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London Fields is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, serving the district of London Fields in the London Borough of Hackney, east London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Homerton and Lakeview Estate.
Homerton
Suburb
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Homerton is an area in London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick, Leyton and by South Hackney to the south.
Lakeview Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Cjc13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lakeview Estate is a housing estate in Old Ford, east London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin. It was built on a site damaged by bombing in World War II, on Grove Road between Old Ford Road and the Hertford Union Canal.
Hackney
- Type: Suburb
- Description: former civil parish in London
- Categories: civil parish, former administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Hackney, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.54324° or 51° 32′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.04936° or 0° 2′ 58″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HCKOpen location code
9C3XGXV2+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 2133924981OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2647694Wikidata ID
Q5637340
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