West Green, London

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= West Green
constituency_westminster= Tottenham
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= N
postcode_district= N15
london_borough= Haringey
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ324892
latitude= 51.5864
longitude= -0.0902

West Green is an area of North London in the United Kingdom and part of the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban area located 5.7 miles (9.22 km) north of Charing Cross.

The area is mainly residential and includes both Chestnuts and Downhills parks. Its area is roughly defined by Downhills Park in the North and Northeast; by Cornwall Road to the East; St Ann's Road to the South; Glenwood Road, Harringay Avenue and Stanmore Road to the West and Northwest

History

West Green developed as a small village in the medieval period with settlement first recorded in 1393. By the start of the seventeenth century the eight buildings that then stood in West Green were the only hamlet in the central area of the manor of Tottenham. Although it had not grown by 1800, by 1840, it contained 18 houses. This made it bigger than Wood Green at that time. Development really took off during the period after the 1860s, particularly after the arrival of the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway in 1878. Nineteenth century local author, Charlotte Riddell described the changes vividly in her 1874 book "Above Suspicion":cquote|Sixteen years ago no more rural village could have been found within five miles of the General Post Office than West Green. It was as utterly in the country as though situated a hundred miles from London, and by a natural consequence it was country in its ways, habits, and manners. The various lanes leading to it from Stamford Hill, Tottenham, Hornsey, and Southgate were rural, which they certainly are not now…As for Hanger Lane, no one had yet dreamed of the evil days to come, when mushroom villas should be built upon the ground that not long before was regarded as an irreclaimable morass—when at first a tavern and then a church (the two invariable pioneers of that which, for some unknown reason, we call civilisation) appeared on the scene, and brought London following at their heels . . . when, in a word, Hanger Lane should be improved off the face of the earth and in the interest of speculative builders . . called, as it is at present, St. Ann’s Road, it has only taken sixteen years to change West Green from an extremely pretty village to an eminently unde­sirable suburb. [cite book|last = Riddell|first = Mrs J.H.|title = Above Suspicion| date = 1874|publisher = Tinsley Brothers|isbn=: none issued at publication]

By 1890 the urbanisation of the area was complete. ['Tottenham: Growth before 1850', A History of the County of Middlesex, Volume 5: 1976, pp. 313-17]

"See Also:" :*West Green railway station:*Palace Gates Line

Education

:"For details of education in PAGENAME see the London Borough of Haringey article."

Transport and locale

Nearest places

*Harringay
*Wood Green
* Seven Sisters

Nearest tube station

*Turnpike Lane tube station
*Seven Sisters tube station

Nearest railway stations

* South Tottenham railway station

References

External links

* [http://www.downhills.org.uk/ Friends of Downhills Park]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/woodlandsparkresidents/ Woodlands Park Residents' Group]