In 1253 land in the area was granted to the Canons of St Bartholomew ’ s Priory, Smithfield and became known as Canonbury.

* Canonbury Tower-The manor of Canonbury was constructed by William Bolton of St Bartholomew ’ s Priory between 1509 and 1532.

In 1812, when few properties had been built, the New North Road turnpike, now known as Canonbury Road, was constructed and bisects the square.

Tolentone was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Road.

The name 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 thereabouts, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury and Canonesbury ( Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury – names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries ).

Pending doubling of the tunnels, a connection was made between Finsbury Park and the North London Railway at Canonbury, and some suburban traffic then ran into Broad Street.

The through route was moved to the north side of the cutting, to allow the extended East London Line to serve Highbury & Islington and Canonbury on a pair of completely segregated tracks occupying the former route on the south side of the cutting.

As Cooper was still a minor, the young couple moved into Lord Coventry's residences of Durham House in the Strand, London and at Canonbury in Islington.

He was born in Canonbury, Islington, London, the only child of Edwin Stanley Smith, a clerk, and his wife Lily Beatrice.

In 1976, peak hour services to the Eastern Region via the Canonbury Spur, were withdrawn with the opening of the Northern City Line, and a further platform was disconnected.

Between 1922 and 1948 the station name was Canonbury & Essex Road.

In 1919, she moved to Canonbury, Islington, but after claiming she had been raped by her church guardian, she was institutionalised as insane in 1925.

The company was initially based in Canonbury, North London, in an office shared with staff of Newsfield's newly launched lifestyle magazine LM.

The station originally opened in 1858 to the east of its present location as " Newington Road & Balls Pond " and was renamed " Canonbury " shortly before the move to its present site in 1870.

Since the northern extension of the East London Line, which was completed and opened in March 2011, Canonbury station has had four platforms, giving interchange between the London Overground East London Line ( ELL ) and North London Line ( NLL ) with step-free access to all platforms and peak service frequencies of 12 trains per hour in each direction.

Thomas was born at Canonbury, London and was educated at Dulwich College.

McKell Park was originally the site of the now-demolished Canonbury House, but is now a public park.

Although this originally terminated at the New River Head in Finsbury, since 1946 its main flow has ended at Stoke Newington reservoirs, though a slow ornamental trickle flows past the West Reservoir to go underground for a stretch on Green Lanes, reappearing for a time in Clissold Park only to disappear underground again on its way to Canonbury.

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

Canonbury is a residential district in the London Borough of Islington in the north of London.

The gentrification of the area from the 1950s included new developments to replace war-damaged properties in Canonbury Park North and South as well as restoration of older buildings.

East Canonbury is the south-eastern corner of the district, bordering on the Regents Canal.

* Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal, lived in Canonbury Tower from 1533.

* Sir Francis Bacon, King James I's Lord Chancellor, lived in Canonbury Tower, 1616-1626.

* Molly Hughes, educator and author, chronicled her childhood in Canonbury in A London Child of the 1870s.

* Louis Macneice, poet, lived at 52 Canonbury Park South from 1947 to 1952 and is commemorated with a blue plaque.

George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh lived in Canonbury Square each quite early in their literary careers.

Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas story about a lamplighter in Canonbury, which features the Tower.

* Canonbury Square-An attractive square, developed between 1805 and 1830, it includes a variety of distinct styles.

* The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is in Canonbury Square.

* Canonbury Grove-is a road running parallel to part of New River Walk, made up of typical attractive 2 and 3 storey early 19th century terraces.

* Greenpeace UK-offices based at Canonbury Villas.

Stoke Newington has undergone major gentrification within the last 10 years, as has neighboring Newington Green, Canonbury and Dalston.

The name is often applied to the areas of the borough close to Upper Street such as St Mary's, St Peter's, Barnsbury, and Canonbury, developed in the Georgian era.

Its northernmost point is in the area of Canonbury.

Although initially victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge ( Elkhorn Tavern ) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a counterattack, after falling into disarray.

Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.

During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.

A scene was developing around Radio Birdman and its main performance venue, the Oxford Tavern ( later the Oxford Funhouse ), located in Sydney's Darlinghurst suburb.

On July 3, a concert at Hamborough Tavern in Southall featuring The Business, The 4-Skins, and The Last Resort was firebombed by local Asian youths who believed that the event was a neo-Nazi gathering.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

Mary Martin told Dylan to visit the group at the Yonge Street club called the Le Coq d ' Or Tavern – though Robbie Robertson recollects it was the Friar's Tavern, just down the street.

The Greyhound Tavern was one of the meeting places used regularly, but because women were not to be seen in taverns, the meetings were also held at members ' houses and at Wharton's riding club.

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

One pub the band played at was the Jericho Tavern in Oxford.

It was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.

Being a small, unincorporated town, early Rockville was known by a variety of names, including Owen's Ordinary, Hungerford's Tavern, and Daley's Tavern.

Of early clubs the most famous, latterly, was the Bread Street or Friday Street Club that met at the Mermaid Tavern on the first Friday of each month.

The first version of the rules for the modern game was drawn up over a series of six meetings held in the Freemasons ' Tavern from October till December.

Within the Bolton settlement was White's Tavern, notable for having housed the staff of General Rochambeau, whose unit camped in the settlement during the revolutionary war.

Barney was asked to join when the other members heard him singing in a beautiful tenor voice in the restroom of Moe's Tavern, replacing the group's original fourth member, Chief Wiggum, who was kicked out.

Barney was still seen at Moe's Tavern, but only drinking lattes.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina ; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king ; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.