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 We continue our INSCAPE series
exploring the strongest dimension of
London’s rich character, its
‘villages’, whose every building
and street are redolent with eloquent, and
often ancient, memory.
HARROW ON THE HILL
Once an Anglo-Saxon settlement whose name means
a temple or sacred grove, the present village
grew around the thousand-year-old parish Church
of St Mary, consecrated by Anselm, Archbishop
of Canterbury in 1094. Byron dreamed in the
churchyard. On the edge of Harrow Park is
Harrow School, dating back to 1572, alma mater
to eight former Prime Minsters, including Palmerston, Robert Peel,
Nehru and Churchill.
HACKNEY
The A10 through Hackney was the Roman trunk
road to Lincoln and York. Once owned by the
Knight’s Templars, Hackney became
the favoured resort of high ranking civil
servants of the Tudor and Stuart Age. It boasts
1300 listed buildings, including the iconic
Grade II Hackney Empire, Sutton House built for
Tudor diplomat Sir Ralph Sadleir, and the Grade I
medieval St Augustine’s Tower.
BLACKHEATH
Once the rallying point for 50,000 men for
Wat Tyler’s
Peasants Revolt, Henry V’s 1415 return
from Agincourt and Charles II’s 1660
restoration, Blackheath became the byword for
the best of Georgian London, whether the
classicism of the Paragon Crescent on the
magnificent Cator
Estate, the strong Gothic of All Saints Church,
or the splendid villas of Pond Road and Morden
Road.
Tutor: Nicholas Friend
COST: £55 members, £65
non-members for each day including donations,
or for two days £95 members, £115
non-members, or for all three days £135
members, £150 non-members.
Three Mondays 15 November, 22 November, 29
November
HARROW
Monday 15 November
MEET: 11 am Harrow-on-the-Hill Station (tube
and overground)
ENDS: 4 pm Harrow-on-the-Hill Station (tube and
overground)
HACKNEY
Monday 22 November
MEET: 11 am Hackney Central Station (overground)
ENDS: 4 pm Hackney Central Station (overground)
BLACKHEATH
Monday 29 November
MEET: 11 am Blackheath Station (overground)
ENDS: 4 pm Blackheath Station (overground)
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