This prompted the construction of permanent playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.

The Theatre was constructed in Shoreditch in 1576 by James Burbage with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the unsuccessful Red Lion playhouse of 1567 ) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577.

* Newington Butts

The earliest known performance of the play is recorded in Philip Henslowe's Diary on 13 June 1594, as The Tamynge of A Shrowe at the Newington Butts Theatre.

Middleton died at his home in Newington Butts in 1627.

The name survives now in the street names Newington Causeway and Newington Butts and in the open space Newington Gardens, formerly the location of Horsemonger Lane Gaol from 1791.

In William Shakespeare's time, there was a theatre called Newington Butts and later there were further theatres.

The scientist Michael Faraday was born here, in Newington Butts, in 1791.

It continues along Newington Butts, Kennington Park Road, Clapham Road and Clapham High Street.

Short died in Newington Butts, London in 1768, having made a considerable fortune from his profession.

Newington Butts and Walworth Road adjoin the southern intersection.

Known previously as Newington ( Newington Butts and Newington Causeway are two of the principal roads of the area ), in the medieval period it was simply a part of rural Surrey, of the manor of Walworth.

He also had interests in the Newington Butts Theatre and The Swan.

It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built, after The Theatre ( 1576 ), the Curtain ( 1577 ), and the theatre at Newington Butts ( c.

: First recorded performance: probably performed at Newington Butts Theatre, 13 June 1594, as The Tamynge of A Shrowe.

It was the fifth in the series of large public playhouses of London, after James Burbage's The Theatre ( 1576 ) and Curtain ( 1577 ), the Newington Butts Theatre ( between 1575 and 1577 ) and Philip Henslowe's Rose ( 1587 – 88 ).

This prompted the construction of playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.

The Newington Butts playhouse may have been built as early as 1575, certainly actor Jerome Savage renewed a lease on the site on 25 March 1576, three weeks before Burbage's lease in Shoreditch.

He was a Strict Baptist and preached at several locations including the Surrey Tabernacle ( where he was Deacon for sixteen years ), St Mary's Newington Butts, St Paul's Deptford and St Saviour ; this led to opportunities to be a churchwarden and Guardian of the Poor.

:" A subway commencing ... near ... Short Street at the ... junction ... with Newington Butts and terminating at King William Street ...

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

His parents were Presbyterian dissenters ; he was educated in a dissenting academy at Newington Green run by Charles Morton and is believed to have attended the church there.

He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby ’ s Manor House School at Stoke Newington, then a suburb four miles ( 6 km ) north of London.

Although the group purported to represent " the autonomous working class ", when the police arrested nine suspected members of the group, only one, ( Jake Prescott, who was arrested in Notting Hill ) came from the working class ; the other eight, four men and four women ( arrested together in Stoke Newington ) were middle-class student drop-outs from the universities of Cambridge and Essex.

Mitchell was born in Stoke Newington, London.

In 1987 she was elected to the House of Commons, replacing the deselected serving Labour MP Ernest Roberts as MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington.

In May 2010, she was re-elected in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, with a doubled majority on an increased turn-out.

The name then later mutated to Isledon, which remained in use well into the 17th century when the modern form arose .< ref name = Growth >< cite >' Islington: Growth ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes ( 1985 ), pp. 9-19 accessed: 13 March 2007 </ ref > In medieval times, Islington was just one of many small manors in the area, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury, and Canonesbury ( Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury-names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries ).

The village was one of four small villages within the Parish of Hackney ( along with Newington, Shacklewell, and Kingsland ) that were grouped for assessment purposes, together having only as many houses as the village of Hackney.

The parish of Newington St Mary was part of the Brixton hundred of Surrey.

William Jowett, a 19th century missionary and author, was born at Newington in 1787, as was the visionary English artist Samuel Palmer in 1805.

In 1899 the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington was formed out of the greater part of the parish of that name.

The resulting boundaries seem rather anomalous now ; the entire eastern side of Stoke Newington High Street and beyond, including Stoke Newington Common, were included in the next door Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, but in fact this area was then part of the parish of Hackney – not Stoke Newington – and much of it would have been regarded as being in Shacklewell at the time.

In the 19th century it was discovered that Stoke Newington Common and Abney Park Cemetery had been part of a Neolithic working area for axe-making, some examples of which can be seen in the Museum of London.

In the Middle Ages and Tudor times, it was a very small village a few miles from the city of London, frequently visited by wayfarers as a pit stop before journeying north, Stoke Newington High Street being part of the Cambridge road ( A10 ).

During the early 19th century, as London expanded, the Manor of Stoke Newington was ' enfranchised ' to be sold in parcels as freehold land for building purposes.

Between 1935 – 37, the curved brick and Portland Stone Town Hall was built for the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington by J. Reginald Truelove.

After the war a substantial amount of residential housing, particularly to the east of modern Stoke Newington, in Hackney borough at the time, had been either destroyed or left in such a bad state that it was seen by the urban planners of that era as better to demolish it.

* Newington Academy for Girls, a Quaker school established 1824 by William Allen

The college was originally named Hackney College when it was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of Hackney and Stoke Newington College of Further Education with those sites of Poplar Technical College that had been established in Hackney.

He left Newington Green and established himself in chambers in the Temple.

The Inner West's two oldest schools are Newington College ( established in 1863 ) and Rosebank College ( established in 1867 ).

Whilst its founding directors were all Congregationalists and they were concerned to find a place for such burials, they expressly established the Stoke Newington cemetery as the first fully nondenominational cemetery in Europe ( where anyone could be buried anywhere ).

The property was transferred to the Official Assignee of the Insolvent Estate of Edward James Blaxland in 1860 and subsequently leased to the Methodist Church, who established Newington College on the site.