Definition & Meaning | English word BARNSBURY

Definitions of BARNSBURY

1. A suburban area in the, Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3084).

Examples of Using BARNSBURY in a Sentence

• Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington, within the N1 and N7 postal districts.
• The borough comprised the districts of Pentonville (also partly in Clerkenwell/Finsbury), Islington (also partly in Clerkenwell/Finsbury), Barnsbury, Lower Holloway, Holloway, Tufnell Park (also partly in St Pancras), Archway, Highbury, and Canonbury.
• Bride, Anns, Barford, Manchester, Park, Barnsbury, Barnsbury Park, King Edward, Wellington, Strahan, Cloudesley, Elizabeth, Felix, Liverpool and Paradise Terraces.
• 2010–2024: The London Borough of Islington wards of Barnsbury, Bunhill, Caledonian, Canonbury, Clerkenwell, Holloway, St Mary's and St Peter's.
• As part of the 2016 boundary review, Brookwood became part of the Heathlands ward which comprises Brookwood, Bridley, Hook Heath, Mayford, Sutton Green and Barnsbury and Wych Hill.
• Taylforth attended William Tyndale Junior School, Barnsbury Secondary School for Girls, Kingsway College of Further Education and the Anna Scher Theatre School in London.
• The club's north London location, adjoining socially wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, as well as neighbouring Homerton, Clapton and Dalston, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have typically come from across the usual class divides.
• It was created out of three former boys' schools in the area, Highbury Grammar School, Barnsbury Boys' School, and Laycock School, as part of a comprehensivisation scheme by the then Inner London Education Authority.
• Following the end of the Second World War, the borough council began to build estates at Maybury, Barnsbury and St Mary's Byfleet.
• Initially the service called at Camden Road, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, Highbury & Islington, Canonbury, Stratford, West Ham, Canning Town, Custom House, Silvertown and North Woolwich.

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