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Islington was known as Isledon until the 17th century. It is home to Holloway Prison, once the feared place of incarceration for many suffragettes. Cultural attractions include the Almeida and Courtyard Theatres, the Emirates Stadium, Islington Arts Factory, the London Canal Museum, Islington Museum, The King's Head Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre.
 
 
 
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Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre is tucked away in Islington, just off Upper Street on a residential road. The theatre is renowned as being one of the best outside of the...
 
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Angel Clock Tower
The Angel Clock Tower is one of the best recognised man made landmark features at the centre of Islington, close to the Angel Underground Station. The clock tower was...
 
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Angel Wings
Angel Wings is one of the centrepieces of Islington town centre, a beautiful sculpture commissioned by the borough to provide a fascinating talking point in the main shopping area....
 
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Archway Park
This delightful and spacious park offers something a little different from other parks in the North London borough of Islington. It feels like an escape from the city when you...
 
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Arlington Square
A variety of paths wind around this small park, and it is surrounded by residential buildings. No dogs are allowed to be walked around Arlington Square, and a lot of...
 
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Barnard Park
Barnard Park is one of the largest green open spaces in the north London borough of Highbury and Islington. The area has for generations been a place of meeting...
 
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Basire Street Playground
This small but well-equipped park is ideal for taking young children to so they can burn off some energy. There are plenty of activities for children to enjoy in the...
 
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Battishall Street Gardens
Battishall Street Gardens are one of the most beautiful public gardens in Islington. Popular with locals and visitors alike the gardens have served as a place of rest and...
 
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Bingfield Park
Bingfield Park is a medium sized park located in the North London borough of Islington. Sport facilities are the main focus of this park, although there is a sizable green...
 
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Bunning Way Garden
Bunning Way Garden is a pleasant green space located in the North London borough of Islington. The emphasis here is on appearance, and the garden has been equipped with...
 
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Business Design Centre
The Business Design Centre is without a doubt one of the most stylish venues in north London. The great looking complex is home to a range of events, shows...
 
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Caledonian Park
This large park is found just off busy Market Road, in the heart of the North London borough of Islington. A large Victorian clock tower overlooks the grounds, which are...
 
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Candid Arts Trust
The Candid Arts Trust is an Islington based artists community and gallery which has been established to help encourage new talent and cultivate existing artists skills to make a better...
 
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Canonbury Park
Canonbury Park is a small public park just off the main road of Upper Street that intersects Islington. The park has provided a place of rest and relaxation to...
 
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Canonbury Square Gardens
Canonbury Sqaure Gardens is a large public garden at the centre of the wonderful Canonbury Square in the heart of Islington. The gardens are similar in style to the...
 
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Celestial Church of Christ
The Celestial Church of Christ is the main north London facility for worshippers of this sect of Christianity. The church is housed in a beautiful 19th Century building that...
 
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Chambers Road Park
This well-equipped park is located in the North London borough of Islington. It is a small park popular with local residents, and is often busy with people using the facilities...
 
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Compton Park
This small park is found in the North London borough of Islington. An area of the park is dedicated to a children’s playground, which does make it rather noisy when...
 
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Compton Terrace Gardens
Compton Terrace Gardens is a medium sized community park and gardens managed by the local authority. The gardens are situated adjacent to Upper Street in the heart of Islington...
 
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Cornwallis Park
A local park that is often used by the neighbouring residents, Cornwallis Park is a located next to Cornwallis Youth Club in the borough of Islington, North London. The park...
 
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Crypt Gallery
The Crypt Gallery is a small art gallery based in the crypt of St. Mary's Church on Upper Street at the heart of Islington. The gallery exhibits an eclectic...
 
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Culpeper Gardens
Culpeper Gardens is also known as Culpeper Community Gardens, and is a long established community garden located within the borough of Islington, North London. Residents that live nearby the gardens...
 
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Dr. Jabez Bunting's House
Dr. Jabez Bunting enjoyed his time living at the heart of London in this charming old house in the quiet Myddelton Square. Born and raised in the busy streets...
 
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Duncan Terrace Gardens
Duncan Terrace is one of the oldest and most interesting architecturally in central Islington. The street at the centre of the north London suburb has for generations been the...
 
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Education Artefacts Library
The Education and Artefacts Library is located in Islington in North London and has been put together from both real and replica artefacts that have been collected from many hundreds...
 
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Elthorne Park
Elthorne Park is a large green space located in the London borough of Islington, and boasts a multitude of features offering something for everyone. There is a path running through...
 
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Estorick Collection
The Estorick Collection is somewhat unusual in Britain as it is entirely focussed on modern Italian art. The excellent collection offers visitors the chance to indulge themselves in many...
 
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Estorik Collection
The Estorik Collection opened in 1998 in Canonbury Square, a leafy garden square at the heart of Islington. The collection is home to an impressive variety of Italian artworks...
 
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Fenner Brockway's House
Fenner Brockway lived much of his adult life in this beautiful town house in the charming Myddelton Square close to the very heart of London. Brockway was a noted...
 
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Freightliners City Farm
Freightliners City Farm is a wonderful project designed for children and young people at the heart of the north London suburb of Islington. The farm provides access to countryside...
 
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George Orwell's House
George Orwell was without a doubt one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century in Britain. He lived much of his life in London in several locations...
 
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Gibson Square Gardens
Gibson Square is a beautiful example of an historic north London residential square. At the centre of the town houses is a large green parkland that is open to...
 
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HTTP Gallery
The HTTP Gallery is a first in the art world, and very proud to be at the cutting edge of taking art into cyberspace. The idea behind the project...
 
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Hugh Myddelton Statue
This fine statue stands on the edge of Islington Green at the intersection with Upper Street close to the centre of the suburb. The reason this position has been...
 
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Islington Central Library
For many generations this grand old public building has stood at the centre of community life in the eclectic and bustling north London suburb of Islington. The library has...
 
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Islington Green
Islington Green is one of the oldest and most well used green areas in the leafy London Borough of Islington. For centuries the green has been the focus of...
 
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Islington Library
Islington Library is located at the heart of this busy London community and carries a large collection of books, music, video and specialist materials available for loan. The library...
 
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Islington Local History Centre
Islington Local History Centre has been established in order to help visitors and local people understand a little more about how this community has developed both as part of the...
 
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Islington Museum
Islington Museum was re-housed in 2008, and carries an extensive collection that relates to the history of this London borough. The actual borough is relatively young, coming into being...
 
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Islington Town Hall
Islington Town Hall is housed in an impressive piece of 'public' architecture from the late 19th Century. It is home to the administrative centres of the Borough of Highbury...
 
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King's Head Theatre
The King’s Head Theatre was established in 1970 by the much loved landlord of the King’s Head in Islington Dan Crawford. His vision was to build a medium sized...
 
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Laycock Park
Laycock Park is a community facility close to Highbury Corner at the very heart of Islington in north London. The park has for many years been a place of...
 
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Lillian Bayliss Studio Theatre
The Lillian Bayliss Studio Theatre is a forum for people of all ages to learn more about the skills involved in acting, dance and theatre. The studio runs regular...
 
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Madras Place Park
Madras Place Park is a large open area in the suburb of Islington in north London. The park is primarily a place of recreation as it has been for...
 
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Methodist Central Hall
The Methodist Central Hall in Islington isn't quite as grand as the church of the same name close to Westminster Abbey in central London, but it is still just as...
 
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Myddelton Park
Myddelton Park is a beautiful cultured gardens at the centre of the historic and beautiful Myddelton Square in the leafy suburbs of north London. The park and square have...
 
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N1 Centre
The N1 Centre is the central shopping centre at the heart of Islington town centre. It offers a range of High Street retailers covering almost everything one could desire....
 
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Newington Green
Newington Green is a large and busy park within the borough of Islington, North London, that has won the Green Flag Award and the Green Heritage Award. This expanse of...
 
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North London Buddhist Centre
The North London Buddhist Centre is a large multi purpose facility situated on one of the busy trunk road, Holloway Road, leading out of the suburb to the north....
 
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Old Red Lion Theatre
The Old Red Lion Theatre has been a popular fixture at the heart of Islington since it was first opened as The Old Red Lion Theatre Club in 1979....
 
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Order of St John Museum
The building in which this museum is housed is steeped in history and was constructed in 1504 as the English headquarters of the Crusading Knights. The display is made...
 
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Owen Fields
Owen Fields is a large public park that has been reserved for public use for many generations. It stands close to the centre of Islington and is well used...
 
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Paradise Park
Paradise Park is one of the larger green areas and open spaces in the north London borough of Islington. The park has a range of recreation activities available to...
 
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Pleasance Theatre
The Pleasance Theatre is one of the most exciting and popular fringe venues in the capital, located within easy reach of the heart of London. It opened in 1995,...
 
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Rights of Man
Rights of Man is an impressive piece of public artwork situated in Angel Court close to Angel Underground Station at the very heart of Islington in north London. The...
 
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler’s Wells is an enormous theatre with a commitment to staging the very best i international and UK contemporary dance shows. The current theatre was opened in 1998 after...
 
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Samuel Phelps' House
Samuel Phelps was one of the most important English actors of the 19th Century. He was born in Devonport but moved to London to peruse a career in the...
 
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Spa Green
Spa Green is a medium sized area of parkland and garden in Islington. The green has for generations been a significant place of recreation for the townspeople of Islington...
 
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St Mary Magdalene Gardens
St Mary Magdalene Church Gardens is a small and quiet park that surrounds the St Mary Magdalene Church in the St Mary’s ward of Islington, North London. The garden has...
 
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St. Mark's Church
St. Marks is a beautiful old church befitting of the historic square that it stands within. The church has been the focus of public life and religious observation...
 
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St. Mary's Church
There is thought to have been a a place of worship on this site since the Norman conquest of England in 1066, although the origins of this building can be...
 
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St. Mary's Gardens
St. Mary's Gardens are situated just off the major thoroughfare of Upper Street in the heart of Islington. Less gardens and more of a park, the area has for...
 
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St. Stephens Church
St. Stephen's is a beautiful parish church in the Canonbury area of Islington in north London. The building towers above the surrounding residential areas and serves as one of...
 
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Standpoint Gallery
Standpoint Gallery is located in the heart of Islington and represents one of the most inspirational contemporary art facilities in the area. It has an extensive programme of events...
 
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The Garage
The Garage is a small but well known music venue at the heart of Highbury and Islington. It's just a stones throw from the main tube station and has...
 
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The Mall
The Mall is an antiques arcade located at the very heart of Islington town centre close to Islington Green. The centre contains a wealth of antiques shops that sell...
 
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The Word Centre
The Word Centre brands itself quite boldly as 'Church Not as Usual'. The centre is in fact a church that serves a good many of the local people of...
 
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Thornhill Park
Thornhill Park is a small but beautifully well kept green area in the residential suburbs of Islington in north London. The park is popular with local people because it...
 
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Thornhill Square
Thornhill Square and Thornhill Crescent are two green spaces that are located adjacent to one another within the borough of Islington, North London. St. Andrews Church is next to the...
 
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Unity Church
The Unity Church is a Unitarian Church based in Islington in the north of London. The church has a long and illustrious history in the suburb, flying in the...
 
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War Memorial
This war memorial is understated, a simple structure it carries a great deal of meaning to the people of this quiet north London area. The memorial serves as a...
 
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Wilmington Square
Wilmington Square is a small and pleasant garden square surrounded by residential property and packed with an interesting selection of different flowers and trees. A number of rose beds can...
 
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Young Actors Theatre
The Young Actors Theatre serves as a dual purpose facility. In capacity the centre is a school of theatre, helping to nurture young talented children by giving them great...
 
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