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London Borough of Haringey

See also: Harringay
Harringay

Harringay is a residential area of North London, close to Crouch End, in the London Borough of Haringey, United Kingdom. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the northern boundary of Finsbury Park up to the southern boundary of Duckett's Common, not far from Turnpike Lane....
for the neighbourhood in the London Borough of Haringey

The London Borough of Haringey (; ) is a London borough

London borough

The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. Inner London comprises twelve of these boroughs plus the City of London....
, in North London

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London

Inner London

Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London. The area was first officially defined in 1965 and for purposes such as statistics, the definition has changed over time....
, and by others as part of Outer London

Outer London

Outer London is the name for the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around Inner London.These were areas that were not part of the County of London and became formally part of Greater London in 1965....
. It shares borders with six other London boroughs. Clockwise from the north, they are: Enfield

London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London....
, Waltham Forest

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The London Borough of Waltham Forest is a London borough in East London, England and forms part of Outer London. It is a mix of built-up residential development and a fifth of the borough is made up of forestland, reservoirs, open space, parks and playing fields....
, Hackney

London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
, Islington

London Borough of Islington

The London Borough of Islington is a London borough in North London and Inner London. It was formed in 1965 by merging the former Metropolitan Borough of Metropolitan Borough of Islington and Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury....
, Camden

London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough of London, England, which forms part of Inner London. The southern reaches of Camden form part of Central London....
, and Barnet

London Borough of Barnet

The London Borough of Barnet is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and five other London boroughs: London Borough of Harrow and London Borough of Brent to the west, London Borough of Camden and London Borough of Haringey to the south-east and London Borough of Enfield to the...
.

Haringey covers an area of more than . Some of the more familiar local landmarks include Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace

Set in Alexandra Park, London, Alexandra Palace was built in an area spanning Wood Green and Muswell Hill, North London, England, in 1873 as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment and as North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London....
, Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle is a Listed building 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane , Tottenham, London.The house has been home to William Compton , Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, the Baron Coleraine#Barons Coleraine, First Creation and Rowland Hill , among others....
and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

The borough is very ethnically diverse.

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London borough

The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. Inner London comprises twelve of these boroughs plus the City of London....
, in North London

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London

Inner London

Outer London

London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London....
, Waltham Forest

London Borough of Waltham Forest

London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
, Islington

London Borough of Islington

London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough of London, England, which forms part of Inner London. The southern reaches of Camden form part of Central London....
, and Barnet

London Borough of Barnet

Alexandra Palace

Bruce Castle

Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
, Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill is a suburb of north London, mostly in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated north of Charing Cross.Muswell Hill is in London postal district N postcode area and the area is mostly in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency....
and Crouch End

Crouch End

Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey....
that are among the most prosperous in the country. In the east of the borough, some wards

Wards of the United Kingdom

A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at subnational level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography ....
are classified as being among the most deprived 10% in the country.

Haringey is also a borough of contrasts geographically. From the wooded high ground around Highgate

Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
and Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill

River Lee (England)

The River Lee or River Lea in England originates in Leagrave Park , Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south to London where it meets the River Thames , the last section being known as Bow Creek....
in the east. The borough includes large areas of green space, which make up more than 25% of its total area.

In recent years, Haringey Council has become the subject of nationwide criticism over its handling of the welfare of young children in connection with the murder of Victoria Climbie and the death of Baby P

Death of Baby P

"Baby P" is the alias of a 17-month old boy who died in London after suffering over 50 injuries over an eight month period, during which he was repeatedly seen by social services....
.

History

In the Ice Age

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
, Haringey was at the edge of a huge glacial mass that reached as far south as Muswell Hill. There is evidence of both Stone Age

Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
and Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
activity.

Prior to the Romans' arrival, Harringay was part of a large area covering Essex

Essex

Essex is a counties of England in the East of England England. The county town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, Essex, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches ....
and Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
which was home to a celtic tribe called Trinobantes.

The Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
s' presence is evidenced chiefly by the roads they built through the area. Tottenham High Road

Tottenham High Road

File:Rough sleeping, Tottenham High Road.jpgHigh Road, Tottenham's main thoroughfare, runs through the district from the North at the border with Edmonton, London to Stamford Hill in the South....
was part of the main Roman thoroughfare of Ermine Street

Ermine Street

Ermine Street should not be confused with Ermin Street, the road from Silchester to Gloucester.Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London to Lincoln, Lincolnshire and York ....
. There have also been Roman finds in the borough which suggests possible Roman settlement.

In the 5th and 6th centuries the Saxon

History of Anglo-Saxon England

The history of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxons kingdoms in the fifth century until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066....
invasions brought Haering, the chieftain whose name still lives on today in local placenames

London Borough of Haringey

See also: Harringay for the neighbourhood in the London Borough of HaringeyThe London Borough of Haringey is a London borough, in North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London....
.

At the time of Domesday, the western part of modern Haringey was within the Manor of Harengheie and part of the Bishop of London

Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km? of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey....
's principal Manor of Stepney

Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
. The eastern part was within the Manor of Tottenham held by Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, the last of the great Anglo-Saxon Earls..

Haringey remained a rural area until the 18th century when large country houses close to London became increasingly common. The coming of the railways from the mid-nineteenth century onwards led to rapid urbanisation. So that by the turn of the century much of Haringey had been transformed from a rural to an urbanised environment.

The borough in its modern form was founded in 1965, from the former Municipal Borough of Hornsey

Municipal Borough of Hornsey

Hornsey was a local government district in east Middlesex from 1867 to 1965.In 1867, a Local board of health was formed for part of the civil parish of Hornsey ....
, the Municipal Borough of Wood Green

Municipal Borough of Wood Green

Wood Green was a local government district in south east Middlesex from 1888 to 1965.Until 1888 Wood Green was part of Tottenham, and was included in the district of the Local board of health in 1850....
and the Municipal Borough of Tottenham

Municipal Borough of Tottenham

Tottenham was a local government district in north east Middlesex from 1850 to 1965. It was part of the London postal district and Metropolitan Police District....
which had all previously been part of Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
. The legacy of these old municipal divisions survives to the present day, with the relative propsperity of the different parts of the borough still split broadly along the old boundary lines.

See also: :Category: History of Haringey.

Etymology

The names Haringey
Haringey

Haringey may refer to:*London Borough of Haringey - a local borough in north London, England*Harringay - a neighbourhood within the London Borough of Haringey...
, Harringay
Harringay

Harringay is a residential area of North London, close to Crouch End, in the London Borough of Haringey, United Kingdom. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the northern boundary of Finsbury Park up to the southern boundary of Duckett's Common, not far from Turnpike Lane....
and Hornsey
Hornsey

Hornsey is a district in London Borough of Haringey in north London in England. Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name refers only to the London district....
in use today are all different variations of the same Old English - Haeringes-hege. Haering was a Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
chief who lived probably in the area around Hornsey

Hornsey

Hornsey is a district in London Borough of Haringey in north London in England. Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name refers only to the London district....
. Haering's Hege, meant Haering's enclosure and evolved into Haringey, Harringay
Harringay

Harringay is a residential area of North London, close to Crouch End, in the London Borough of Haringey, United Kingdom. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the northern boundary of Finsbury Park up to the southern boundary of Duckett's Common, not far from Turnpike Lane....
and Hornsey
Hornsey

Hornsey is a district in London Borough of Haringey in north London in England. Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name refers only to the London district....
.

History of Harringay

The history of Harringay tells the story of the development of Harringay, a district of London 5 miles from its centre, affected by, but not always part of the great town's history....

The Haringey coat of arms and logo

The official explanation of the coat of arms is given as:

The modern logo is fashioned on the coat of arms.

Demographics

Haringey has a population of 216,507. with approximately 3,548 known asylum seekers.

The population grew by 8.6% between 1991 and 2006 and is projected to grow by a further 5.4% by 2016 to 233,125. The male to female ratio is 50:50 and the age structure is similar to that of London as a whole although younger than the national average. Haringey has a high proportion of young adults in the 20-39 age range and a low proportion of residents aged 45 and over. The borough has a high proportion of lone parent households.

The ethnic composition of Haringey's residents is 65.7% White, 14.7% Asian, 12.1% Black, 4.6% Mixed, 1.1% Chinese and 2% Other. An estimated 193 languages are spoken in the borough

London borough

The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. Inner London comprises twelve of these boroughs plus the City of London....
.

Housing

There are about 97,101 dwellings in Haringey. Of those: 46% are owner occupied; 17.4% are council rented

Council house

The council house is a form of public housing in the United Kingdom. Council houses were built and operated by local Municipality to supply uncrowded, well built homes on secure tenancies at affordable rents to the local population....
; 10.8% are rented from a registered social landlord

Housing association

Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent Non-profit organization bodies that provide low-cost social housing for people in housing need....
; and 24% are rented from a private landlord. Just over 55% of residents in Haringey live in flats, apartments or maisonettes. The local council

London borough

The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. Inner London comprises twelve of these boroughs plus the City of London....
and housing association

Housing association

Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent Non-profit organization bodies that provide low-cost social housing for people in housing need....
s provide about 27,463 affordable homes and in 2006 over 19,000 households were waiting to be housed by the borough

London borough

The administrative area of Greater London contains thirty-two London boroughs. Inner London comprises twelve of these boroughs plus the City of London....
. There are almost 5,500 households living in temporary accommodation. In 2002/03 over 1,300 households were accepted as homeless

Homelessness in the United Kingdom

In 2007/2008, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Homelessness Statistics produced a table which showed some of the more immediate reasons for homelessness in England....
by the council.

Politics

There are 19 wards

Wards of the United Kingdom

A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at subnational level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography ....
in Haringey. Although they bear the names of long-established local areas, many have boundaries which do not exactly match the locally understood boundaries of those areas. The wards are:

Note: Each ward name shown above is linked to the London Borough of Haringey's ward microsites. Each provides a wealth of information on the ward via the navigation pane on the left of the screen.

The borough has been Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
-run since 1971. No Conservative candidate has won a local government election in Haringey since 1998. In May 2006 Labour retained control of the Council with a majority of just three seats over the Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
. Late in 2007 Liberal Democrat councillors Catherine Harris and Ali Demirci crossed the floor to join the Labour Party. This was the first such occasion in the history of the borough. The Labour majority thus increased to 7 (32 Labour, 25 Liberal Democrat).

Seats on Haringey Council, by party:

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats
1994	2	57	0
1998	2	54	3
2002	0	42	15
2006	0	30	27
2007	0	32	25

(boundary changes in 2002 reduced the number of councillors by 2)

In recent years, Haringey Council has become the subject of nationwide criticism over its handling of the welfare of young children in connection with the murder of Victoria Climbie and the death of Baby P

Death of Baby P

"Baby P" is the alias of a 17-month old boy who died in London after suffering over 50 injuries over an eight month period, during which he was repeatedly seen by social services....
. George Meehan, Council leader at the time of both the Victoria Climbie inquiry and the death of Baby P, resigned after a "damning" examination of Social Services caused by Baby P. He and Liz Santry, cabinet member for Children's Services initially refused to resign at a Full Council meeting. All Labour Councillors voted for them to remain in their posts. Sharon Shoesmith, who was sacked on 8 December 2008 without any compensation package, over the Baby P affair, is suing for lack of notice.

Economy

In 2006, there were 8,200 businesses in Haringey employing a total of 64,700 people. This accounted for 1.6% of all employment in London.

Haringey's economy is dominated by small businesses with 94.2% of businesses employing less than 24 people. These small businesses account for 39.3% of total employment in the borough.

The main sectors of employment in Haringey are:

Retail and wholesale distribution - 19.9%
Health and social work - 19.0%
Real estate, renting and business activities - 15.3%
Education - 12.8%
Manufacturing - 8.3%
Public administration - 6.8%
Hotels and catering - 6.8%
Transport and communications - 6.6%
Construction - 3.5% (Source:Annual Business Inquiry)

Source

The principal shopping areas in the borough are Wood Green

Wood Green

Wood Green is a district in the London Borough of Haringey in North London, England. It is a suburban area situated north of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan....
and Turnpike Lane

Turnpike Lane

Turnpike Lane is the name of a street in London Borough of Haringey, north London.The road is characterised by independent retailing with apartment above their shops....
, Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill

Crouch End

Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey....
, and Harringay

Harringay

Harringay is a residential area of North London, close to Crouch End, in the London Borough of Haringey, United Kingdom. It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the northern boundary of Finsbury Park up to the southern boundary of Duckett's Common, not far from Turnpike Lane....
.

Haringey is situated within the growth corridor connecting London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
with Stansted

Stansted

Stansted could be*London Stansted Airport, which is near the village of*Stansted Mountfitchet in Essexor it could be the village of:*Stansted, Kent...
, Cambridge

Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
and Peterborough

Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2006. For ceremonial counties of England purposes it is in the Counties of England of Cambridgeshire....
.

Culture

The borough has a number of facilities offering a wide range of cultural activity

Performing arts

Haringey's theatres include:

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In 2007, the new £14 million opened, as part of the borough's regeneration
Regeneration

Regeneration or regenerative may refer to:In biology:* Bush regeneration, an ecological technique practiced in Australia* Regeneration , the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs...
strategy.
.
A wide range of small live music venues together with the bigger venues of Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park is a 112 acre public park in the London Borough of Haringey. Officially part of the London area of Harringay, it is also adjacent to Stroud Green, London, the Finsbury Park, London and Manor House, London....
and Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace

Set in Alexandra Park, London, Alexandra Palace was built in an area spanning Wood Green and Muswell Hill, North London, England, in 1873 as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment and as North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London....
.

Visual arts

Green spaces

Haringey has of parks, recreation grounds and open spaces which make up more than 25% of its total area. They include both smaller local areas and large green areas which provide an amenity for Londoners beyond the borough's boundaries. Local Nature Reserves and a number of conservation areas can also be found in the borough. The borough is also home to five distinct ancient woods. These are Highgate Woods, Queen's Wood

Queen's Wood

Queen's Wood is a 21 hectare area of ancient woodland in North London, abutting Highgate Wood and lying between East Finchley, Highgate Village, Muswell Hill and Crouch End....
, Coldfall Wood

Coldfall wood

Coldfall Wood is an ancient wood in Muswell Hill, North London. It covers an area of approximately 14 hectares and is presently surrounded by the St....
, Bluebell Wood

Bluebell Wood, London

Bluebell Wood in the London Borough of Haringey is a small remnant of one of the ancient woodlands of London.External links ...
and North Wood.

The borough has achieved Green Flag

Green Flag award

The Green Flag Award is the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom. The scheme was set up by Mark Davis in 1996 to recognise and reward green spaces in England and Wales that met the laid down high standards....
status for eight of its parks which is the highest awarded to any London borough. Highgate Woods in Haringey is one of only eight Green Heritage sites in London.

Amongst the larger open spaces are: Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park is a 112 acre public park in the London Borough of Haringey. Officially part of the London area of Harringay, it is also adjacent to Stroud Green, London, the Finsbury Park, London and Manor House, London....
, Alexandra Park

Alexandra Park

Alexandra Park is the name of many parks:...
, Highgate Woods, Coldfall Wood

Coldfall wood

Coldfall Wood is an ancient wood in Muswell Hill, North London. It covers an area of approximately 14 hectares and is presently surrounded by the St....
and the Lee Valley Park

Lee Valley Park

The Lee Valley Park is a long area, much of it green spaces, running through the north- east of London, Essex and Hertfordshire from the River Thames to Ware in Hertfordshire, England through areas such as London Borough of Hackney, London Borough of Haringey, London Borough of Enfield,London Borough of Newham,London Borough of Tower Hamlets...
.

There are three rivers of note still flowing above ground in the borough. These are:

River Moselle
River Moselle (London)

The River Moselle or 'Moselle Brook' is a river in North London, flowing mostly through Tottenham towards the Lee Valley. It was originally a tributary of the River Lee , but it now flows into another Lee tributary, Pymmes Brook, which appears to have been extended artificially in parallel with the Lee, possibly as far back as the 17th cent...
The New River
New River (England)

The New River is a man-made waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from the River Lee and from Amwell Springs , and other springs and wells along its course....
River Lee
River Lee (England)

The River Lee or River Lea in England originates in Leagrave Park , Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south to London where it meets the River Thames , the last section being known as Bow Creek....

See also: :Category: Parks and open spaces in Haringey

Education

Haringey has 63 primary (including infant and junior) schools, 10 secondary schools, a City Academy, 4 special schools and a pupil support centre. In addition there is off site provision and study support centres for children and young people with additional needs. Ten Children’s Centres were opened in 2006 and a further eight are planned for 2008.

The number of pupils in Haringey Schools as at January 2006 was 34,990 (Including nursery age children). This total was made up as follows:

Primary Total 16,705 (pupils of compulsory school age).
Secondary Total 12,431 (including sixth form students).
Special School pupils and students 299 (including post 16 children).
Pupil support centre 77.

Source

Sport

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, currently in the FA Premier League, is located in the borough in Tottenham High Road.

London Skolars

London Skolars

London Skolars are a rugby league team based at the New River Stadium, Wood Green, Haringey in north London. They were founded in 1995 and have been professional since 2003, operating in Co-operative Championship....
are a rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football is a competitive Full-contact sport team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field....
team that compete in National League 2

Rugby League National Leagues

The Rugby League Championship was formerly the English National League One. With the inclusion of a French team in 2009 it has taken a more European dimension and has changed its denomination....
, they play at New River Stadium

New River Stadium

White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, also known as the New River Stadium, is a rugby league and athletics stadium in Wood Green, Haringey, North London, England that is home to the London Skolars rugby league club, Haringey & Enfield Athletics Club, Wood Green Weightlifting Club and Haringey Rhinos rugby union club....
in Wood Green

Wood Green

Haringey

Haringey may refer to:*London Borough of Haringey - a local borough in north London, England*Harringay - a neighbourhood within the London Borough of Haringey...
. The annual Middlesex 9s

Middlesex 9s

Middlesex 9s is a rugby league nines tournament that is hosted by the London Skolars rugby league club at their New River Stadium in North London....
rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football is a competitive Full-contact sport team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field....
tournament also takes place at the New River Stadium.

The Borough's ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
team, the Haringey Greyhounds

Haringey Greyhounds

Haringey Greyhounds are a United Kingdom ice hockey club based in Harringay, England.The team was founded in 1990, as the second team at Alexandra Palace, the first being Haringey Racers....
currently play at Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace

PDC World Darts Championship

The PDC World Darts Championship is one version of the World Darts Championship and was introduced following a dispute with the British Darts Organisation in 1994....
and a number of Boxing

Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
events.

Twin towns

Haringey has been Town twinning with Koblenz

Koblenz

Koblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle River, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
since 1969. It has also twinned with the towns of Arima

Arima

The Royal Borough of Arima is the fourth largest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Located 26 km east of the capital, Port of Spain, Arima supports the only organised indigenous community in the country, the Santa Rosa Carib Community Carib Community and is the seat of the Carib Queen ....
in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
, Clarendon

Clarendon Parish, Jamaica

Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica. It is located on the south of the island, roughly half-way between the island's eastern and western ends. Located in the county of Middlesex, it is bordered by Manchester Parish, Jamaica on the west, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica in the east, and in the north by Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica....
in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
, Larnaca

Larnaca

Larnaca, is a city of the Cyprus#Government situated on the southern coast of Cyprus. The island's largest airport, Larnaca International Airport is located on the outskirts of the city....
in Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
, Livry-Gargan

Livry-Gargan

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Sundbyberg in Sweden

Sweden

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and Jalasjarvi in Finland

Finland

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Notable current and former residents

There are a large number well-known people who have lived or are living in the borough, particularly in the areas of Highgate

Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
, Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill

Crouch End

Crouch End is an area of north London, in the London Borough of Haringey....
. The group includes Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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, J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, Order of Merit was an England novelist and Presenter....
, Bill Nicholson

Bill Nicholson (footballer)

William Edward "Bill" Nicholson Order of the British Empire was an England football player, coach, manager and scout who devoted his life to Tottenham Hotspur F.C....
, Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
, Sting, George Michael

George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
, Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

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, David Gray

David Gray

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, Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo

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and The Kinks

The Kinks

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See also: For comprehensive information on notable residents see: :Category: People from Haringey by district.