Hackney
Hackney is a district of London. Hackney has a diverse population and the area has undergone massive regeneration in recent decades. Hackney is now very fashionable with a thriving arts scene in the south of the district for example.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 274,000 residents
- Description: borough in the London Region in England
- Also known as: “Hackney (unparished area)” and “London Borough of Hackney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoxton railway station and Museum of the Home.
Hoxton railway station
Railway station
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Hoxton is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in the London Borough of Hackney in East London. It is on the Kingsland Viaduct, with the station entrance situated on Geffrye Street near Dunloe Street and Cremer Street, behind the Museum of the Home.
Museum of the Home
Museum
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The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is a free museum in the 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton, London.
Haggerston railway station
Railway station
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Haggerston is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in Haggerston, East London. It lies between Hoxton and Dalston Junction stations, is in Travelcard Zone 2, and is open 24 hours on a Friday and Saturday as part of the London Overground Night Service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islington and City of London.
Islington
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Islington is a district of north London covering much of the London Borough of Islington. The area around The Angel, Upper Street and Essex Road is of special interest to visitors; it is home to a number of interesting shops selling antiques and collectibles as well as art galleries.
City of London
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The City of London, also known as the City, or the Square Mile, is the area of London that originally lay within the ancient city walls. This independent part of Central London is known for its history and heritage, so is a must for anyone wishing to explore and understand London.
Holborn-Clerkenwell
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Holborn-Clerkenwell is a district in central London that is in many ways a buffer zone between London's West End and the City of London financial district.
Hackney
- Categories: London borough and unparished area
- Location: Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Hackney” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Arabic: “حي هكني في لندن”
- Armenian: “Հակնի”
- Azerbaijani: “Hakni”
- Basque: “Hackney”
- Belarusian: “Гакні”
- Belarusian: “Хакні”
- Breton: “Hackney”
- Catalan: “Hackney”
- Cebuano: “Hackney”
- Chinese: “Hackney”
- Chinese: “哈克尼，倫敦”
- Chinese: “哈克尼”
- Chinese: “哈克尼倫敦自治市”
- Chinese: “哈克尼区”
- Chinese: “哈克尼區”
- Chinese: “赫尼區”
- Czech: “Hackney”
- Danish: “Hackney”
- Dutch: “Hackney”
- Dutch: “Londen Borough of Hackney”
- Dutch: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حى هاكنى فى لندن”
- Esperanto: “Hackney”
- Esperanto: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Estonian: “Hackney”
- Finnish: “Hackney”
- French: “borough londonien de Hackney”
- French: “Borough londonien de Hackney”
- French: “Hackney”
- French: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Galician: “Hackney”
- Georgian: “ჰაკნი”
- German: “De Beauvoir Town”
- German: “GB-HCK”
- German: “Hackney Wick”
- German: “Hackney”
- German: “Haggerston”
- German: “Hoxton”
- German: “London Borough of Hackney”
- German: “Stoke Newington”
- German: “Upper Clapton”
- Greek: “Χάκνεϊ”
- Hebrew: “האקני”
- Hebrew: “הקני”
- Hebrew: “רובע האקני של העיר לונדון”
- Hebrew: “רובע האקני של לונדון”
- Hebrew: “רובע האקני”
- Hebrew: “רובע לונדון של האקני”
- Hindi: “हैकनी बरो”
- Hungarian: “Hackney kerület”
- Hungarian: “Hackney”
- Icelandic: “Hackney”
- Irish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Italian: “Borgo londinese di Hackney”
- Italian: “Hackney”
- Italian: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Italian: “Municipio di Hackney”
- Japanese: “ハックニー・ロンドン特別区”
- Japanese: “ハックニー区”
- Japanese: “ハックニー特別区”
- Korean: “해크니구”
- Latin: “Hakeneia”
- Latvian: “Hekni”
- Macedonian: “Хакни”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hackney (koān)”
- Northern Frisian: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hackney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Norwegian: “Hackney”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hacanieg se Lunden Burgscipe”
- Persian: “منطقه هکنی لندن”
- Polish: “Hackney”
- Polish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Portuguese: “Borough de Hackney”
- Portuguese: “Hackney”
- Portuguese: “London Borough de Hackney”
- Romanian: “Burgul londonez Hackney”
- Romanian: “Hackney”
- Russian: “Хакни”
- Russian: “Хэкни”
- Scots: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Serbian: “Лондонска општина Хекни”
- Serbian: “Лондоска општина Хекни”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hackney”
- Slovenian: “Hackney”
- South Azerbaijani: “هکنی لندن منطقهسی”
- Spanish: “Hackney”
- Swedish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Tagalog: “Hackney”
- Tajik: “Ҳакний”
- Tatar: “Һакни”
- Turkish: “Hackney”
- Ukrainian: “Гекні”
- Urdu: “لندن بورو ہیکنی”
- Urdu: “ہیکنی بورو”
- Vietnamese: “Khu Hackney của Luân Đôn”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Llundain Hackney”
- Welsh: “Hackney (bwrdeistref)”
- Welsh: “Hackney”
- Western Frisian: “Hackney”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیکنی”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון האקני”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון העקני”
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