Crouch Hill

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Coordinates: 51°34′27″N, 0°7′17″W

Crouch Hill is a small area of north London, England, nestled between Crouch End and Stroud Green in the boroughs of Islington and Haringey.

The name of the area originally comes from the fact that much of the area is situated on a steep hill, which is part of the range of hills that characterise parts of North London. The main arterial road which runs over that hill (the A1201), has also come to be called "Crouch Hill" along the stretch that climbs and descends the hill. The area has its own railway station of the same name on the Islington (south) slope of the hill, which is served by the Gospel Oak to Barking line.

[edit] The Old Dairy

At the bottom of the hill, at the Stroud Green end of the main road, there is a pub called The Old Dairy. The pub is notable as a local landmark because its building, which is listed^{[citation needed]}, still preserves the original panels on its outside walls from when it was the main farm building of the Friern Manor dairy farm^{[citation needed]}, and the surrounding areas were associated cattle fields.

There is more about the history of the Old Dairy in the Wikipedia article on Stroud Green

[edit] The Parkland Walk

Main article: Parkland Walk

Running underneath Crouch Hill is a public walkway called the Parkland Walk, a public foot and cycle path that stretches from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, and follows some of the course of the Northern Heights planned rail extension to the Northern Line, abandoned on 9 February 1954. The path, which is often quite muddy, runs past the Crouch Hill Community Centre (currently closed).

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