South Hackney

South Hackney
The Evangelical Reformed Church on Lauriston Road.
South Hackney is located in Greater London
South Hackney
South Hackney
Location within Greater London
Population13,231 (2011 Census)
OS grid referenceTQ352840
• Charing Cross4.2 mi (6.8 km) SW
London borough
Ceremonial countyGreater London
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLONDON
Postcode districtE9
Dialling code020
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51°32′30″N 00°02′56″W / 51.54167°N 0.04889°W / 51.54167; -0.04889

South Hackney is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney. It is in East London and is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross.

The Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy on the corner of Victoria Park Road and Lammas Walk utilises the buildings of the former French Hospital (La Providence), a home for elderly Huguenots. The French Hospital was built in the 1860s in the style of a French-Flemish chateau, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu.

The area just south of Well Street features social housing such as the Kingshold and Shore Estates. The former New Kingshold Estate (built 1966, demolished 1996) was subject of a 1990 Channel 4 documentary Summer On The Estate highlighting some of the problems on the estate with crime and disrepair, and residents' fight to improve it. A follow-up series aired in 1995 as the two tower blocks on the estate, Thornhill Point and Halston Point were demolished in July 1995.[1]

  1. ^ "Summer on the Estate, 1990 - The Radical History of Hackney". Hackney History. 28 April 2011. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2023.