Somers Town, London

Not to be confused with Summerstown, London.

Somers Town
Somers Town is located in Greater London
Somers Town
Somers Town
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLONDON
Postcode districtNW1
Dialling code020
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51°31′52″N 0°07′53″W / 51.5310°N 0.1315°W / 51.5310; -0.1315

Somers Town is an inner-city district in North West London. It has been strongly influenced by the three mainline north London railway termini: Euston (1838), St Pancras (1868) and King's Cross (1852), together with the Midland Railway Somers Town Goods Depot (1887) next to St Pancras, where the British Library now stands. It was named after Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers (1725–1806).[1][2] The area was originally granted by William III to John Somers (1651–1716), Lord Chancellor and Baron Somers of Evesham.[3]

Historically, the name "Somers Town" was used for the larger triangular area between the Pancras, Hampstead, and Euston Roads,[1] but it is now taken to mean the rough rectangle centred on Chalton Street and bounded by Pancras Road, Euston Road, Eversholt Street, Crowndale Road, and the railway approaches to St Pancras station. Somers Town was originally within the medieval Parish of St Pancras, Middlesex, which in 1900 became the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras. In 1965 the Borough of St Pancras was abolished and its area became part of the London Borough of Camden.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Walford, Edward (1878). "Somers Town and Euston Square". Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources. Vol. 5. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin. pp. 340–355. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Malcolm, J.P. (1813). "Origin and gradual increase of Somers Town". The Gentleman's Magazine. 83 (November, 1813): 427–429.
  3. ^ Somers Cocks, J.V. (1967). A History of the Cocks Family (PDF). Ashhurst, New Zealand: J. Somers Cocks. ISBN 0-473-06085-X. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  4. ^ Palmer, Samuel (1870). St. Pancras; being antiquarian, topographical, and biographical memoranda, relating to the extensive metropolitan parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex; with some account of the parish from its foundation. London: Field & Tuer. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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