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London | Hackney

The County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with the City of London remaining an independent body.

In 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey.

Greater London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together with the City of London.

Hackney once lay in Middlesex and is today one of the 13 boroughs making up Inner London. It borders the City of Westminster and the London borough of Tower Hamlets in the south with its eastern border marked by the River Lea.

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Actors and Directors

The film and stage actor Jessica Tandy was born in Stoke Newington in 1909. Her earliest work was on the stage in London but after the end of her marriage to Jack Hawkins in 1940 she went to the US where she worked in Hollywood and on Broadway (four Tony Awards). Her long film career was crowned by an Academy Award for Driving Miss Daisy in 1990. She died in Connecticutt in 1994.

Jessica Tandy

Anglo-Saxons and Danes

Anglo-Saxon Kings

Danish Kings

The borough once lay in Middlesex which once formed the kingdom the kingdom of the Middle Saxons, so named because their kingdom lay between those of the East Saxons (Essex) and the West Saxons (Wessex).

Places of Interest

Historic Locations

Abney Park Cemetery was opened in 1840 the fifth of what became known as the "Magnificent Seven", seven new London cemeteries needed due to the booming population of London. All were built within a decade: the first in 1832, Kensal Green Cemetery, and the last Tower Hamlets Cemetery in 1841.

Writers and Poets

The writer and art critic John Berger was born in Stoke Newington in 1926. His novel G won the Booker Prize in 1972 and in the same year his groundbreaking televison series Ways of Seeing on art was broadcast. He left Britain in the early 1960s and in 1974 settled in rural France.

John Berger