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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Lissenden Gardens

  

Lissenden Gardens Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Lissenden Gardens

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Lissenden Gardens history

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Lissenden Gardens was built between 1898 and 1906 by the Armstrong family. It was designed by Boehmer and Gibbs, the architects who were experienced in building middle class blocks of flats in the Hampstead area. The flats were built in the fashionable Edwardian period Arts and Crafts style. The estate was hit by incendiary bombs in early September 1940 but no injuries.

Purchase by Camden Council

In 1972 the Armstrong family decided to sell the Lissenden Gardens estate through a sealed bid auction. Residents formed a tenants’ association and planned an expert campaign to save the estate. Camden Council bought the estate for £2.8 million in October 1973.

You can visit Lissenden Gardens places with Walkfo Lissenden Gardens to hear history at Lissenden Gardens’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Lissenden Gardens has 692 places to visit in our interactive Lissenden Gardens map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Lissenden Gardens, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Lissenden Gardens places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Lissenden Gardens & the surrounding areas.

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692 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Lissenden Gardens tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Lissenden Gardens

  

Best Lissenden Gardens places to visit

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Lissenden Gardens has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Lissenden Gardens’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Lissenden Gardens’s information audio spots:

Sainsbury’s, Camden Sainsbury’s supermarket, Camden is the first purpose built supermarket to be Grade II listed for its futuristic architecture. It was completed in 1988, on the site of the former Aerated Bread Company Camden Town bakery.

White Conduit Fields White Conduit Fields in Islington was an early venue for cricket . Several major matches are known to have been played there in the 18th century . It was the original home of the White Conduits Club, forerunner of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)

The Screen On The Green The Screen On The Green is a single screen cinema facing Islington Green in the London Borough of Islington, London . The current building was opened in 1913 and it is one of the oldest continuously running cinemas in the UK .

Andover Estate Andover Estate, in Holloway, North London, is a large Islington London Borough Council housing estate . It is flanked by Hornsey Road (west), Seven Sisters Road (south), Durham Road (east) and Durham Road . It falls into the N7 postcode district of London .

Highbury New Park Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington . It runs from Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove in the south .

Whittington Stone The Whittington Stone is a monumental stone and statue of a cat at the foot of Highgate Hill, a street in Archway . It marks roughly where it is recounted that a forlorn Dick Whittingon heard Bow Bells ringing from 4+1/2 miles (7.2 km) away .

Market Estate Market Estate is named after the Metropolitan Cattle Market which operated on the site until the 1960s . After slaughter the carcasses of cattle and sheep were sent by underground trains to Smithfield Market to be traded . Three of the six blocks are named after breeds of animal that were traded in the market: Tamworth (pigs), Kerry (cows) and Southdown (sheep)

Canonbury Square Canonbury Square is a garden square in Canonbury, North London . It is bounded by terraces of mostly Georgian houses, many of which are listed buildings . The Evening Standard newspaper described it in 1956 as ‘London’s most beautiful square’

Metropolitan Cattle Market The Metropolitan Cattle Market (later Caledonian Market) was built by the City of London Corporation and opened in June 1855 . The market was supplementary to the meat market at Smithfield and was established to remove the difficulty of managing live cattle at that latter site .

Metropolitan Borough of Islington Islington was an ancient parish within the county of Middlesex . It formed part of The Metropolis from 1855 . The parish was transferred to the County of London in 1889 and became a metropolitan borough in 1900 . It was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury to form the London Borough of Islington .

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