Secret Islington Walking Tour - Canonbury (4K)

Secret Islington Walking Tour - Canonbury
This walk takes into a magical realm just off the hustle and bustle of Upper Street Islington as we take a walking tour around the streets of Canonbury. Ed Glinert described Canonbury as ‘The best preserved and most picturesque suburb in inner London’ (The London Compendium). In The London Nobody Knows, Geoffrey Fletcher wrote that to walk from Upper Street to Canonbury Square is to ‘move into an entirely different world’.

Here are some of the points of interest on the walk:
Highbury Corner
Upper Street
Compton Terrace
Union Chapel
Compton Terrace Gardens
Hope & Anchor
Canonbury Lane
Compton Avenue & Compton Arms
Canonbury Square
Estorick Collection
27b Canonbury Square - George Orwell
17a Canonbury Square - Evelyn Waugh
Canonbury Tower
Canonbury Place
The Canonbury Tavern
Willowbridge Road
New River Path
Marquess Estate
Caldy Walk
The Marquess Pub
Essex Road - Station, Carlton Cinema, South Library, The Old Queens Head, The Winchester
Cross Street
Dagmar Passage, Dagmar Terrace - Little Angel Theatre
St. Marys Church
Kings Head Theatre
St Marys Path
Colebrooke Row - Charles Lamb
Duncan Terrace - Douglas Adams
Regents Canal - Islington Tunnel
Noel Road - Joe Orton

Further Reading:
Canonbury Tower and Canonbury House https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp269-273
Canonbury Tavern https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol8/pp19-20
The Lost Byway Islington blog posts https://thelostbyway.com/?s=islington

Books: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams, Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries ed. John Lahr, Orton the Complete Plays by Joe Orton

Related videos:
Through the Islington Tunnel on the Floating Cinema
https://youtu.be/bNYIAEkqKyc
London's Little Italy and the Legends of Islington https://youtu.be/2br7eJ4tBJM
Walk from St. Paul's through Islington to Highgate https://youtu.be/fC5JonPnfvE
London's Northern Heights - Highbury to Hornsey via Finsbury Park
https://youtu.be/rBP7A-Bzhx0

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Map: Open Street Map “© OpenStreetMap contributors” using data available under the Open Database Licence
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