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King Henry's Walk

Islington (Settlement), Middlesex (County [UK]), England


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Description of institution: In the seventeenth century, a commons associated with King Henry VIII. According to John Nelson in history of Islington,
A very old inhabitant of the Green recollects, that more than half a century ago, when some of the present houses were erected, several vestiges of other ancient dwellings of considerable magnitude were removed; and the tradition of Henry’s resorting to this place is further supported by the circumstance of a very pleasant path, which winds from the South-east corner of the Green to the turnpike by Ball’s Pond, having been called, time immemorial, by the name of “King Harry’s Walk” (189).
Presumably located at the present day garden and street that bear that name.