Stamford Hill
in London, United KingdomCategory: Attraction
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102-114 Stamford Hill, London N16 6SB, UK Print route »
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Stamford Hill is a district in the London Borough of Hackney in north-east London, England, located about 5.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. The area is known for its Jewish Chasidic community, the largest concentration of Charedi Chasidic Jews in Europe.The neighbourhood takes its name from the eponymous hill and the originally Roman A10 also takes the name ‘Stamford Hill’ as it makes its way through the area.
The hill is believed to be named after the ford where the A10 crossed the Hackney Brook on the southern edge of the hill. Sanford and Saundfordhill are referred to in documents from the 1200s and mean ‘sand ford’. Roque's map of 1745 shows a bridge, which replaced the ford, referred to as ‘Stamford Bridge’.
The hill rises gently from the former course of the Hackney Brook to the south, and its steeper northern slope provided a natural boundary for the traditional (parish and borough) extent of Hackney, and now does so for the wider modern borough.
