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Haggerston in Middlesex County England History and GeographyHAGGERSTON, a parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 1½ mile (N.E. by N.) from London. The population is returned with the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. This place, formerly an inconsiderable hamlet in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, has, within the last few years, become an extensive and populous district. Many new streets have been formed, consisting of neat ranges of houses of a moderate size: the parish is partially paved, lighted with gas, and amply supplied with water. Among the larger of the various works which have been erected on the banks of the Regent's canal, which passes through the parish, are those of the Imperial and Independent Gas-light and Coke Companies, the former of which was established in 1822, for lighting the eastern district of the metropolis, and the latter incorporated in 1829. The facility afforded by the canal has contributed greatly to increase the trade of the place: there are several chemical works on an extensive scale, manufactories for japanned leather, floorcloth, and hearth-rugs; a manufactory for bone ashes, several lime-works, tile-kilns, dye-houses, and coalwharfs, affording employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants. The parish is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests held at Whitechapel, for the recovery of debts under 40s. Haggerston was constituted a distinct parish in 1830. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Archdeacon of London. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, and erected in 1827, at an expense of £15,000, by a grant from the parliamentary commissioners, is a spacious structure, blending the early and decorated styles of English architecture, with a lofty square embattled tower of singular design, destitute of relief in the lower part, and profusely ornamented in the upper with crocketed pinnacles, with which a smaller tower rising from the centre is connected by flying buttresses; at the western extremities of the aisles are octagonal turrets, with domed roofs surrounded by crocketed pinnacles rising from the angles: the interior, which is neatly arranged, contains one thousand nine hundred and sixty sittings, of which one thousand are free. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. Sunday schools in connexion with the established church and the dissenting congregations are supported by subscription, and an infant school is about to be established. Six almshouses, for six poor members of the Company of Goldsmiths, were founded in 1705, in Goldsmith-place, in this parish, by Mr. Richard Morrell, who endowed them with an estate for their perpetual maintenance. Fourteen almshouses, with a chapel in the centre, were erected in Kingsland-road, in 1713, by Sir Robert Geffery, Knt., for poor members of the Company of Ironmongers. On the south side of the Ironmongers' almshouses are twelve others founded by Mr. S. Harwar, citizen and draper of London, of which six are for poor freemen of the Drapers' Company, and six for poor persons of the parish. To the north of the Ironmongers' almshouses are twelve for poor freemen of the Company of Frame-work knitters and their widows, founded by Thomas Bourne, Esq., who gave £1000 for their erection, and £2000 for their endowment, to which additions have been made by subsequent benefactions. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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