Green Lanes

Green Lanes, London, (N16, N4, N13 and N21) is a main road in North London and forms part of the A105.

Green Lanes is an ancient thoroughfare which was used to drive cattle from Hertfordshire towards Smithfield Market in London. It runs from Newington Green in Islington north along the western edge of Stoke Newington, thereby forming the border between Hackney and Islington until it reaches Manor House at the eastern edge of Finsbury Park. It then runs through Harringay and ends at the junction of Turnpike Lane. Some sections of its route carry other names: the late Victorian Terraced mansion houses on the eastern side of the road through Harringay are called "Grand Parade", and through Wood Green Green Lanes has been renamed "High Road" but the road again becomes Green Lanes for another 2.15 miles through Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill in the London Borough of Enfield, until it reaches the junction of Bush Hill at Mason's Corner.

Amongst the sites on its route are Clissold Park, The Waterworks, Finsbury Park, the New River (which follows a similar course for some distance), the sites of Harringay Stadium, Arena and Harringay Green Lanes railway station, Grand Parade, the Salisbury Public House erected in 1897 with its crown to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and Turnpike Lane Underground Station.

There is also a diverse community of Jamaicans, Turks, Cypriots, Kurds and Greeks living in the areas through which it passes.

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