Seven Sisters, London

Seven Sisters took its name from a group of elm trees on Page Green in Tottenham, and an 1840 print of those trees is the st...

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Seven Sisters took its name from a group of elm trees on Page Green in Tottenham, and an 1840 print of those trees is the starting point for its maps and views. A plan of the same year shows Bushey Hanger Farm between West Green and St Ann's Roads. Seven Sisters Road, laid out in the nineteenth century, linked Holloway with Tottenham and drew building along its course, and two prints of about 1880 recall the Seven Sisters at Holloway as it was in 1830. Twentieth-century maps follow the district's growth, from Tottenham sheets of 1923 to 1937 taking in White Hart Lane and Angel Road, to Bacon's plans of 1928 to 1968 reaching Tottenham Hale, Edmonton and Higham Hill.

Seven Sisters took its name from a group of elm trees on Page Green in Tottenham, and an 1840 print of those trees is the starting point for its maps and views. A plan of the same year shows Bushey Hanger Farm between West Green and St Ann's Roads. Seven Sisters Road, laid out in the nineteenth century, linked Holloway with Tottenham and drew building along its course, and two prints of about 1880 recall the Seven Sisters at Holloway as it was in 1830. Twentieth-century maps follow the district's growth, from Tottenham sheets of 1923 to 1937 taking in White Hart Lane and Angel Road, to Bacon's plans of 1928 to 1968 reaching Tottenham Hale, Edmonton and Higham Hill.

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