is a place in the
London Borough Of Haringey . It is a suburban development situated 6.6 miles (10.6 km) north north-east of
Charing Cross .
Tottenham is the home of
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, whose ground at Paxton Road is named ''
White Hart Lane '' after the site of the original ground.
Two
London Underground Lines serve the area that was the Borough of Tottenham. The
Piccadilly Line , which opened in
1932 has one station
Turnpike Lane in Tottenham. The
Victoria Line which opened in
1968 has its operating depot in Tottenham at
Northumberland Park and has two stations,
Seven Sisters and
Tottenham Hale situated within the area.
National Rail stations, Seven Sisters,
South Tottenham , Tottenham Hale,
Bruce Grove ,
White Hart Lane , and
Northumberland Park serve the area. The train service is provided by
One .
There has been a settlement at Tottenham,
Middlesex for over a thousand years. It grew up along the old
Roman Road ,
Ermine Street , today´s
A10 Road and between
High Cross and
Tottenham Hale , today's Monument Way.
as it was then known was mentioned in the
Domesday Book . At that time, 1086 around 70 families lived within the manor, mostly labourers working for the Lord of the Manor. In
1894 Tottenham was created an
Urban District and on
27th September 1934 it became a
Municipal Borough . As from
1st April 1965 the
Municipal Borough formed part of the
London Borough Of Haringey .
The
River Lea formed the eastern boundary of the Municipal Borough of Tottenham with the
Municipal Borough Of Walthamstow . It was the ancient boundary of Middlesex with
Essex and the boundary of
Danelaw . Today it forms the boundary between the London Borough of Haringey and the
London Borough Of Waltham Forest . A major tributary of the Lea, the
River Moselle , also crosses the borough from west to east—this often gave rise to serious flooding until it was mostly covered over in the 19th century.
From the introduced special workman's trains and fares on its newly opened
Enfield and
Chingford branch lines. Tottenham's low-lying fields and market gardens were then rapidly transformed into cheap housing for the lower-middle and working classes, who were able to commute cheaply to inner London. This fare policy stimulated the relatively early development of the area into a London suburb.
An incident occurred on
23rd January 1909 , which was at the time known as the . Two armed robbers of Russian descent held-up the wages clerk of a Rubber Works in Chesnut Rd. They made their getaway via Tottenham Marshes and across the Lea where they hijacked a Walthamstow Corporation Tramcar, hotly pursued by the police on another tram. The hijacked tram was stopped but the robbers continued their flight on foot. Being eventually cornered by the police, they shot themselves to evade capture. Four people including a boy of ten had been shot and killed and fourteen were wounded during the chase. The incident later became the subject of a Silent
Film .
During the
Second World War , Tottenham also became a target of the
German Air Offensive against Britain. Bombs fell within the Borough (Elmar Rd) during the first air raid on London on
24th August 1940 . The Borough also received
V1 (4 Incidents) and
V2 hits, the last of which occurred on
15th March 1945 . Wartime shortages also led to the creation of , a mixture of household waste food which was converted into feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry. The "pie" was named by
Queen Mary on a visit to Tottenham Refuse Works. Production continued into the Post-war period, its demise came with the merging of the Borough into the new London Borough of Haringey.
In 1985, the
Broadwater Farm Housing Estate in Tottenham was the scene of
Rioting between the police and local youths following the death of Cynthia Jarrett, a resident of the estate who died of heart failure after four policemen burst into her home. One police officer - PC Keith Blakelock - was stabbed in the neck during the riots and later died in hospital. 58 policemen and 24 other people were injured in the fighting. Two of the policemen were injured by gunshots, the riots marking the first time that firearms had been used in that type of confrontation.
- - Tottenham Parish Church which dates back to Norman times and was for more than 700 years the only church in Tottenham. Presented in 1801 with a bell from the Quebec Garrison which was captured from the french in the battle of Quebec, Montreal , Canada . Adjacent to the church is
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- - Housing estate built in 1967 , that was the site of the Broadwater Farm Riot in 1985 .
- , Lordship Lane - Now a Local History Museum, was Tottenham's Manor House, named after the father of the Lord Of The Manor . It was purchased by Sir Rowland Hill and he was living here when he as Postmaster General introduced the Penny Postage in 1840 . {Link without Title}
- - The building features an English Heritage Blue Plaque to Luke Howard (1772-1864), the meteorologist who named the Clouds in 1802.
- - Almshouses of the Drapers' Company. They were built in 1870 and were established out of the generosity of three 17th century benefactors, Sir John Jolles, John Pemel and John Edmanson.
- (Both now Demolished) - Built on the site of a nineteenth century Pottery and Kiln. The Stadium was opened in 1927 and was Londons first Greyhound Racing track. The Arena opened in 1936 .
- - Now known as the Tower Gardens Estate , construction of this "out Of County" LCC cottage housing estate began in 1904 . The style of the housing is said to be inspired by houses in Ghent , Belgium . The estate was the home of Harry Champion (Great Cambridge Road), a well known Music Hall star and composer of the song " I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am ".
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- - Erected sometime between 1600 - 1609 on the site of an earlier Christian cross, although there is some speculation that the first structure on the site was a Roman Beacon or Marker, situated on low summit on Ermine Street . Tottenham High Cross is often mistakenly thought to be an Eleanor Cross .
- - Consecrated in 1861 , St Ann's church houses the organ on which Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed the famous Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream .
- - Built between 1894 and 1902 , with two towers in the style of a 12th Century German cathedral. Situated at the foot of Stamford Hill , this Catholic Church dominates the area.
