Noel Park
Noel Park is a planned community built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was developed as the Noel Park Estate on a tract of land on the edge of north of London as part of the fast growing development of Wood Green. The area forms a rough triangle, bordered by the A109 road to the north, A1080 road to the south-east, and A105 road to the west. The historic western boundary was the now-defunct Palace Gates Line of the Great Eastern Railway.
About Noel Park in brief
Noel Park in north London is a planned community built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was developed as the Noel Park Estate on a tract of land on the edge of north of London as part of the fast growing development of Wood Green. It is one of four developments on the outskirts of London built by the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company. From 2003 to sometime in 2009, the name was also given to a small park near the southern edge of Noel Park, formerly known – and now known again – as Russell Park. The area forms a rough triangle, bordered by the A109 road to the north, A1080 road to the south-east, and A105 road to the west. The historic western boundary was the now-defunct Palace Gates Line of the Great Eastern Railway. In 1982, the majority of the area was granted Conservation Area and Article Four Direction status by the Secretary of State for the Environment, in recognition of its significance in the development of suburban and philanthropic housing and in the history of the modern housing estate. In 1965 it was incorporated into the newly created London Borough of Haringey, and in 1966 it was bought by the local authority and taken into public ownership. Despite damage sustained during the Second World War and demolition work during the construction of The Mall Wood Green shopping, cinema and residential complex in the 1970s, Noel Park today remains largely architecturally intact. The last recorded occupancy of the manor was in 1881, shortly before the site was cleared for the construction.
By 1880 the estate had been broken up into fifteen smaller farms. The western edge of the estate was by this time occupied by the GreatEastern Railway’s Palace Gates line and Green Lanes railway station opened in 1878. By the time of the opening of the station, the area had been occupied by around 2,000 people. The estate was designed to provide affordable housing for working-class families wishing to leave the inner city; every property had both a front and back garden. No public houses were built within the estate, and there are still none today. The company aimed to fuse the designs of rural suburbs such as Bedford Park with the ethos of high-quality homes for the lower classes at Saltaire Peaire. Whilst earlier housing companies such as Saltaire pioneered the Saltaire housing ethos, earlier philanthropic companies as well as other improvements such as the building of railroads and other improvements such as public housing were also involved in the project. In the 1880s the River Moselle, running parallel to Lordship Lane a short distance south of it, formed the de facto northern boundary of the region. During the development, the river was culverted and the land between the river and Lordship lane built on. The only building in the area which was to become Noel Park was Ducketts Farm, with the only building shown in the 1619 Earl of Dorset’s Survey of Tottenham, which is the earliest recorded property in Wood Green, dating from 1254.
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