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25-607: Shacklewell is a small locality to the east of Roman Ermine Street (now the A10), in the London Borough of Hackney . The area was originally a hamlet that developed on Shacklewell Lane in the Ancient Parish and later Metropolitan Borough of Hackney , now a part of the larger modern London Borough of Hackney. The place name is no longer commonly used, and the areas is now generally regarded as part of Dalston , which

50-453: A part of Dalston . In its way the district is an illustration of the mutable nature of place names in the capital. The lack of a railway station using the name Shacklewell and the consequent omission of the name from railway maps of the capital will have contributed to the decline of the name. There is a Shacklewell electoral ward for Hackney Council, which, as electoral wards require roughly equal electorates, corresponds only very roughly to

75-469: Is a little further inland. Ermine Street and the River Trent together were evidently an important early route of entry into early post-Roman Britain. The author Thomas Codrington proposed a more westerly route for "Erming" Street north of London, going via what is now Theobalds Park . This route is marked on many maps. The Roman Map of Britain above shows a sector of Ermine Street for which there

100-632: Is known as the Roman Ridge or Roman Rigg . A large section of this road formed for many later centuries the Great North Road between Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire . 53°09′05″N 0°32′04″W  /  53.15151°N 0.53454°W  / 53.15151; -0.53454 Kingsland Secondary School The school, originally built as Dalston County School around 1937, was closed in August 2003, demolished and rebuilt under

125-783: Is now largely part of the A10 . At this point it crosses the Icknield Way . From Royston, it was formerly the A14 to the A1 but now it is the A1198 to Godmanchester ( Durovigutum ). Ignoring bypasses and modern diversions, the road through Huntingdon to the Alconbury junction on the A1 gives the line. The section from Alconbury to Water Newton , ignoring modern bypasses such as that at Stilton , follows

150-598: The A1 Great North Road near Godmanchester . Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate , where one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London was located. From here it runs north up Norton Folgate , Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington Road and Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham , Edmonton and eastern Enfield (Ponders End, Enfield Highway, Enfield Wash and Freezywater) to Royston . This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston

175-654: The Humber at Winteringham . Before the diversion was made round the extended runway at Scampton, with a very slight diversion at Broughton , it was possible to travel about 33 miles (53 kilometres), from the Newport Arch , the Roman north gate at Lincoln, to the Parish of Winteringham along a road so slightly curved as to be regarded as straight. Roman Winteringham was the terminal for the ferry to Petuaria ( Brough ) on

200-891: The Lincolnshire Heath while the A607 wanders through the villages on the spring line below. From the Antonine Itinerary there is known to have been a Roman Settlement on the road in South Lincolnshire, called Causennae which has been variously identified with Ancaster Roman Town or Saltersford, south of Grantham . Another long section remains, now the A15 , running north out of Lincoln, past RAF Scampton and Caenby Corner, past Kirton in Lindsey at grid reference SE9698 , and continuing almost to

225-409: The Parish of Hackney , ( Dalston , Newington , Shacklewell, and Kingsland ), which were all grouped for assessment purposes, together having only as many houses as the village of Hackney . The village of Shacklewell was settled on the eponymous village green , along Shacklewell Lane. Shacklewell lay a little over 500 yards north of the hamlet of Dalston , which stood on Dalston Lane, with which it

250-402: The A1. Ermine street used to pass through Durobrivae , the slight remains of which can be seen to the east, alongside the A1 at Peterborough. The modern road returns to Ermine Street north-west of Stamford , near Great Casterton , through which Ermine Street ran. The post-Roman road wandered off for two and a half miles (four kilometres) through Colsterworth , but Ermine Street continues as

275-503: The B6403, through Ancaster to the A17 . It then continues as a public right of way , easily walked, until Waddington airfield blocks it at SK981626 . The route from Colsterworth, through Ancaster, to Bracebridge Heath is known as High Dike . It runs roughly parallel with and to the east of the A607 between Carlton Scroop and Harmston . High Dike takes to the level, open, dry country of

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300-646: The Class' starring Julie Walters, used the school as a location. The film was based on a real-life, turn-around-the-school story where Marie Stubbs took the helm at St George's School in Maida Vale, London. Among the many shots of the school inside and out, the main hall in A block featured in assembly scenes. See IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421570/ 51°33′07″N 0°04′11″W  /  51.5519°N 0.0698°W  / 51.5519; -0.0698 This London school or sixth form college related article

325-528: The Office of The Schools Adjudicator published its decision on 14 March 2003 that the school should be discontinued by 31 August 2004. Kingsland Secondary School consisted of four buildings, which were known as blocks A,B,C and D. In 2002 the GCSE pass rate (A*-G) was 20%, this increased to 21% in 2003. The Granada Television series ' Murder City ' used the school as a location. The 2005 TV movie 'Ahead of

350-496: The area after which it is named. The post-2014 ward boundaries straddle Stoke Newington Road, with the village core and its immediate surroundings (now part of Dalston ) to the east, while the area west of the road is the southernmost part of Stoke Newington The nearest London Overground station is the Dalston Kingsland railway station . Primary schools in the area include Shacklewell School and Halley House, and

375-433: The area is no longer a significant commercial centre. Although the place name is now little used, the historic street pattern of the original hamlet remains. During the 19th century the area was urbanising and local identities were more fluid than before or since. For some of this period, Shacklewell was informally considered to extend north into West Hackney to include Rectory Road and the northern end of Amhurst Road. It

400-413: The new name of the ' Petchey Academy ', named after Jack Petchey . The decision to permanently close down Kingsland Secondary School was met with much opposition, as many faculty members and students felt that much progress was being made in improving the standards of teaching and academic levels, which ultimately meant that the school should not have been branded a 'Special Measures' institution. However,

425-601: The north shore of the Humber. From there, the road curved westwards to York. This landing place on the south shore of the Humber is significant because Winteringham translates as "the homestead of Winta's people". Apart from Woden , the god, the first leader on Lindsey's list of kings is Winta. Clearly, the end of the Jurassic limestone ridge at the Humber was significant in the English settlement of Lincolnshire. Winterton

450-707: The secondary school the Petchey Academy , located on the site of the former Kingsland Secondary School The Shacklewell Arms is a well known pub and live music venue. The pioneering dance music production duo Shut Up and Dance immortalized the Shacklewell Arms in its former life in their track The Green Man . Ermine Street Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London ( Londinium ) to Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia ) and York ( Eboracum ). The Old English name

475-526: Was Earninga Strǣt (1012), named after a tribe called the Earningas , who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred , around Arrington, Cambridgeshire , and Royston, Hertfordshire . "Armingford", and "Arrington" share the same Old English origin. The original Celtic and Roman names for the route remain unknown. It is also known as the Old North Road from London to where it joins

500-479: Was a communal bath and washhouse . Simple bathhouses like these were once of great importance. Even into the 1960s, in some working-class areas of London many dwellings did not have their own bathrooms. Largely residential in the mid-19th Century, the district gained some light industry later on, including Eyre & Spottiswoode 's printworks and a saw mill. Although some industry remains, largely in Turkish hands,

525-550: Was an alternative route. As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past Scampton an alternative course of Ermine Street curved left and formed a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary . The straight northerly route, traced in red on the map, between Lincoln and York was the shorter, but was not passable over the Humber Estuary during adverse weather conditions. Thus an alternative route

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550-619: Was established (see also Roman roads in Britain ). This 'alternative' route is detailed in the Antonine Itinerary and linked York (Eboracum), Castleford (Lagecium), Doncaster (Danum), Littleborough (Agelocum) and Lincoln (Lindum). Beginning at the modern Lincolnshire Showground the portion of this route in Lincolnshire is known as Till Bridge Lane , the modern A1500. The route in the Doncaster area, and again north of Castleford,

575-607: Was linked by Cecilia Road. John Heron , reputedly the richest man in Hackney, with extensive land-holding had his manor house at Shacklewell. Cecilia More, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More , the Roman Catholic martyr, married into the family in 1525. The house was later occupied by the Tyssen family , who owned large parts of Hackney. One municipal building still standing is the former Shacklewell Washing Baths. This

600-463: Was originally a separate hamlet 500 yards to the south, and also part of the Parish and Borough of Hackney. Shacklewell took its name from "some springs or wells which were of high repute in former days, but the very site of which is now forgotten." The place name was first recorded in 1490, when Thomas Cornish, a London saddler, had a tenant there. The hamlet was one of four small settlements within

625-466: Was sometimes also seen to extend west of Stoke Newington Road to include the most southern part of Stoke Newington . That sphere of self-identification has been almost completely lost. It is no longer common for a Londoner to refer to themselves as living in Shacklewell, the only people to do so now living in the immediate vicinity of the village core, and these would normally also consider the area

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