Girdlestone Estate

Girdlestone Estate is a neighborhood in Islington, Greater London, England. Girdlestone Estate is situated nearby to the neighborhood Highgate New Town, as well as near the suburb Archway.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whittington Hospital and Archway Library.

Whittington Hospital

Hospital

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Whittington Hospital is a district general and teaching hospital of UCL Medical School and Middlesex University School of Health and Social Sciences. Located in Archway, London, it is managed by Whittington Health NHS Trust, operating as Whittington Health, an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community health services in the north London boroughs of Islington and Haringey.

Archway Library

Library

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The Archway Library is a public library in the London Borough of Islington, England, in the Archway neighborhood. The library originally opened in 1946, and was the first municipal building in Islington to have fluorescent lighting.

Archway tube station

Metro station

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Archway is a London Underground station. It is located at the intersection of Holloway Road, Highgate Hill, Junction Road and Archway Road in Archway, North London, directly underneath the Vantage Point building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Archway and Whittington Estate.

Archway

Suburb

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Archway is an area of north London, England, in the London Borough of Islington 3.8 miles north of Charing Cross. It straddles the A1 and is named after a former local landmark, the high, single-arched Archway Bridge which crossed the road to the north.

Whittington Estate

Neighborhood

The Whittington Estate, also known as Highgate New Town, is a housing estate in the London Borough of Camden, North London, England. It was designed in a modernist style by Peter Tábori and Ken Adie for Camden Council's Architects Department.