HHS TALK tonight Weds 13 November

[Rachael Macdonald]

Hope you can make it to what promises to be a very interesting talk this evening.


Rachael Macdonald
Webmaster
Hornsey Historical Society
 
 
 

The story of the Manor of Brownswood and the beginnings of South Hornsey, 1560-1850

John Hinshelwood
This is a new story of Hornsey. The first Story of Hornsey, 1904 by R O Sherington was written just after the Local Government reorganisation and the formation of Hornsey Borough Council. Not surprisingly, Sherington's story concentrated on the district defined by the new Borough and made little or no reference to either the old Manor of Brownswood or South Hornsey. Since then a wealth of material and books on the history of Hornsey have been produced, but no significant narrative of the Manor of Brownswood and the development of South Hornsey has appeared.
In 1832 the new turnpike road from Holloway to the Seven Sisters in Tottenham sliced the old Manor of Brownswood in half and at the same time cut off the southern tip of the Parish of Hornsey, and the new London suburb of South Hornsey came shortly afterwards; and disappeared in 1900 when it was absorbed into Stoke Newington. The Manor of Brownswood, one of the two principal manors in the parish ceased to exist in the 1850s when the lands were taken over by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Nowadays few people know that there was a manor of Brownswood in Hornsey or that there was a district called South Hornsey between the Seven Sisters Road and Newington Green. This lecture by John Hinshelwood will describe the history of the manor and the earliest developments of South Hornsey.

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Talks take place at 8.00pm at the Union Church Hall, N8 9PX, corner of Ferme Park Road and Weston Park (location details: Union Church Hall).

Doors open at 7.30pm for sales & refreshments. The talk starts at 8.00pm, and latecomers are not admitted.
Free to members. A donation of £2 is requested from non-members