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ISLINGTON (in Domesday and later documents Iseldon, Isendon and in the 16th See also:century Hisselton) , a See also:northern See also:metropolitan See also:borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded E. by Stoke Newington and See also:Hackney, S. by See also:Shoreditch and See also:Finsbury, and W. by St Pancras, and extending N. to the boundary of the See also:county of London. Pop.(19o1)334,991. The name is commonly applied to the See also:southern See also:part of the borough, which, however, includes the districts of See also:Holloway in the See also:north, Highbury in the See also:east, part of Kingsland in the See also:south-east, and Barnsbury and Canonbury in the south-central portion. The districts included preserve the names of See also:ancient manors, and in Canonbury, which belonged as See also:early as the r3th century to the priory of St See also:Bartholomew, Smithfield, traces of the old See also:manor See also:house remain. The See also:fields and places of entertainment in Islington were favourite places of resort for the citizens of London in the 17th century and later; the See also:modern See also:Ball's See also:Pond Road recalls the See also:sport of See also:duck-See also:hunting practised here and on other ponds in the See also:parish, and the popularity of the See also:place was increased by the See also:discovery of chalybeate See also:wells. At See also:Copenhagen Fields, now covered by the See also:great See also:cattle See also:market (r8S5) adjoining Caledonian Road, a great See also:meeting of labourers was held in 1834. They were suspected of intending to impose their views on See also:parliament by violence, but a display of military force held them in check. The most noteworthy modern institutions in Islington are the Agricultural See also:Hall, See also:Liverpool Road, erected in 1862, and used for cattle and See also:horse shows and other exhibitions; Pentonville See also:Prison, Caledonian Road (1842), a vast See also:pile of buildings radiating from a centre, and Holloway Prison. The borough has only some 40 acres of public grounds, the See also:principal of which is Highbury Fields. Among its institutions are the Great Northern Central See also:Hospital, Holloway, the London See also:Fever Hospital, the Northern See also:Polytechnic, and the London School of Divinity, St See also:John's Hall: Highbury. Islington is a See also:suffragan bishopric in the See also:diocese of London. The See also:parliamentary borough of Islington has north, south, east and See also:west divisions, each returning one member.

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council consists of a See also:mayor, io aldermen and 6o councillors. See also:Area, 3091.5 acres.

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