Hornsey

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Location
Hornsey


OS grid reference:	TQ305895
Latitude:	51.589185°
Longitude:	-0.115283°
Administration
London borough:	Haringey
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex (1965)
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	N8
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Hornsey and Wood Green
London Assembly:	Enfield and Haringey
European Parliament:	London
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This article is about the place in London. For the town in Yorkshire, see Hornsea.

Hornsey is a locality in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. Itself a former Borough, the name may sometimes refer to the much smaller area or "village" around the old Hornsey Parish church as opposed to the much larger Hornsey.

Hornsey began as a medieval parish forming part of the county of Middlesex, stretching from Stroud Green in the south to Highgate in the west, and Muswell Hill and Bounds Green in the north. Its Vestry became the administrative centre of local government, until the creation of Municipal Borough of Hornsey in 1903 (centred first in Highgate, then at Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End). Until 1965 it still remained just outside the old London County Council, but now Hornsey is administratively within the London Borough of Haringey in Greater London ("Hornsey" and "Haringey" come from the same root).

Hornsey Town Hall, built in 1933-5, was widely admired for its clean, modernist style and beautiful detailing, symbolizing enlightened local government. The architect was Reginald Harold Uren. However, since 2004 Haringey Council gradually removed municipal services from the building, and its increasing dereliction caused a local furore.

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village. Other notable places are the former Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End, and Highpoint and Cromwell House in Highgate. Former residents include poets A.E. Housman and Thomas Moore, and revolutionary Ho Chi Minh. Actors Peter Sellers and Bob Hoskins grew up here. The once-famous poet Samuel Rogers, a friend of Byron and Dickens, is buried in Hornsey churchyard. In 1968 Crouch End was briefly the scene of a student revolt at Hornsey College of Art.

The area is in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

The area has two secondary schools. One, formerly known as St. David and St. Katherines (D&K), now after poor achievement rates the school was reopened as an academy and renamed as Greig City Academy.

The second, Hornsey School for Girls, is the second (and sometimes the third) best in the league tables for Haringey. Hornsey is the base of Hornsey Housing Trust, local Haringey housing association and provider of care and support for older people.