VicLondon-Former Villages
Former Villages, the West End
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Keeping in the avour of other regions in the hills, there are a series of villages that London has grown to engulf in the East End. They are bounded by Hackney Marsh in the East and farmlands in the north. These include places like Stoke Newington, Shacklewell, Hackney, and Clapton. They are all north of the Regent’s Canal, and their development has been haphazard. Some areas further out were built up before others; Clapton is further out that Hackney, but saw construction and an in ux of the poor before the latter. The character of the area is constantly changing, but it is steadily showing improvements in income and living quality.
These are working-class and middle-class neighbourhoods. Building styles are patchwork here. There are small houses that are vestiges of the farm buildings that had been here before London expanded into the area, newer small homes, row houses, and new tenements. The district might decide what type of housing is in the majority, but there is a little of everything, depending on the street you are in. Stoke Newington is more developed with the row homes of recent style, and is more well-to-do than Clapton, which has a number of workhouses and Unions and is crushingly poor. Hackney, deeper into the East End, still has a number of open parks and spaces, such as London Fields, Hackney Park, Victoria Park, and while the residents are poor, they are still better off and more orderly than in Clapton to the northwest.
