![]() ![]() ![]() The parish was government by the St Mary Islington open vestry. ![]() The area that became Archway is located at the northwestern part of this parish. The ancient parish of Islington stretched over three miles from its southern boundary to meet with the parish of Hornsey at its north. Highgate tube station (later renamed 'Highgate Archway' and subsequently just 'Archway') opened on 22 June 1907 as the northern terminus of the Highgate branch of the Northern Line. Highgate Hill, the road from Archway to Highgate village, was the route of the first motorised cable car in Europe. ![]() From 1813 to 1864, the cutting contained a toll gate, where travellers paid for the next stage of their journey, as is recorded by a plaque at 1 Pauntley Street, an apartment block. The Archway Road is part of the A1 or Great North Road, one of the original toll roads. Those covering the area are parts of traditional parent parishes named Whitehall Park, Upper Holloway, St John the Evangelist, Upper Holloway and a very small part of a Highgate, Islington parish. The ecclesiastical parishes (once having had poor-relief vestries employing highwaymen, for example) before the laws that disestablished their secular components do not mention Archway. Seven bus routes in London terminate at 'Archway', the term having become mainstream after the tube station, originally called Highgate, was renamed Highgate (Archway) in 1939, and subsequently Archway (Highgate) in 1941, and Archway in 1947. A few residents, especially those born and locally raised in the early 20th century, refer to the area with a definite article (as " the Archway"). The 1893 Ordnance Survey map shows the bridge simply as "Highgate Archway". The original, brick-built, single-arched bridge of 1813 was replaced in 1900 by the current cast-iron Hornsey Lane Bridge. See also: Upper Holloway and Highgate Toponymy Īrchway's name developed in reference to the old bridge carrying Hornsey Lane from Highgate to Crouch End, over the cutting of Archway Road. ![]()
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