Pentonville

Pentonville

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Pentonville
latitude= 51.5350
longitude= -0.1031
os_grid_reference= TQ315835
london_borough= Islington
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= N
postcode_district= N1
dial_code= 020
constituency_westminster= Islington South and Finsbury

Pentonville is an area of north-central London in the London Borough of Islington, centred on the Pentonville Road. Pentonville was part of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell, and was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury by the London Government Act 1899. It has been part of the London Borough of Islington since 1965.

Nearby places include Islington, St. Pancras and Finsbury. The closest tube station is Caledonian Road.

Pentonville is John Stuart Mill's birthplace (20 May 1806).

In 1902 Lenin and his wife lived just off Pentonville Rd, it at this time that he first met his fellow exile Trotsky.

Pentonville is not the location of HM Prison Pentonville, which is located on Caledonian Road, some distance north in Barnsbury.

Pentonville in popular culture

"Pentonville" is an experimental reggae track on the Babyshambles album "Down in Albion".

Mr Brownlow, the gentleman whose books were stolen in "Oliver Twist", lived in "a quiet shady street near Pentonville" in the novel and most film version. However, in the musical adaptation, "Oliver!", he lives in Bloomsbury Square.


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