Islington, England

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Islington is a settlement in England

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Islington within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Islington in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Islington, parl. bor. and par. with ry. sta., Middlesex, in N. of London, 2½ miles N. of St Paul's, 3107 ac., pop. 282,865. Market-days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; was a country vil. at the beginning of the 19th century; the Agricultural Hall, the largest building of the kind in London (capable of holding 50,000 people), is situated in the par. Islington returns 4 members to parl. (4 divisions - namely, North, West, East, and South - 1 member for each division); it was made a parl. bor. in 1885.

Islington in the Domesday Book

A village in Ossulstone hundred, in the county of Middlesex.

Four manors recorded in Domesday.

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