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Hackney Central history

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In 1727 Daniel Defoe said of the villages of Hackney, they are so encreas’d in buildings, and so fully inhabited, that there is no comparison to be made between their present and past state.

Early origins

In Roman times Ermine Street passed to the west of what is now Hackney Central. The name Hackney derives from a 5th- or 6th-century Saxon settlement known as Haca’s ey. The settlement was near Hackney Brook, and was probably on the higher ground around St Augustine’s Tower.

Tudor village

Little remains of early Hackney, except the Tudor St Augustine’s Tower, which survives as Hackney’s oldest building. In Tudor times there were a number of fine houses along Church Street, but many Tudor courtiers lived in nearby Homerton.

Georgian period

Hackney, Lower Clapton and Homerton remained separated by fields into the 19th century. By 1724, while still consisting of a single street, there is an unbroken line of buildings, except by the churchyard and by the brook. The 16th-century church, despite galleries being installed, became too small for the needs of the parish, and parliament was petitioned in 1790 for a modern larger church to be built. This began in 1791 but was bedeviled by builders’ bankruptcies and not completed until 1812–1813 when the tower and porches were added.

Victorian Hackney

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The change from rural suburb to firmly urban was marked by the arrival of the railway in 1850. During the Victorian era, many of the old buildings were swept away and the estates broken up to form streets of terraced housing. Many older buildings were pulled down to make room for street widening and the railway.

  

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