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Hornsey

district of London, England
Place town Q2454407

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, area of London[4]
Native label
Hornsey[12]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.587°, -0.118°[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
London Borough of Haringey, Hornsey[2]
Shares border with
Alexandra Park[5]

Population and size

Area
+1.06[14]
Population
+12659[9]

Codes

Postal code
N8[6]
More facts +4
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[10][11]
Different from
Hornsea[13]
Historic county
Middlesex[15]
OS grid reference
TQ305894[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hornsey fa هورنسی، لندن بزرگ he הורנסי ja ホーンジー zh 合恩賽 zh 合恩赛
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
123122978
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n50036456
GND ID
1304909972
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Great Northern Railway Tavern, Hornsey High Street - geograph.org.uk - 354363.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
cy4ng11dnw8t
BBC Things ID
3b7f28ca-8d02-4321-a649-8035840056b4
BabelNet ID
03836639n
British History Online VCH ID
middx/vol6/pp199-205
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
be010318-edb7-4b44-9fb5-59273244e2a5
FactGrid item ID
citation analysis
Freebase ID
/m/0nb39
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2599044
Show all 25 identifiers +13
GeoNames ID
2646580
J9U entity ID
987007554823205171
KEPN ID
Middlesex/Hornsey
MusicBrainz area ID
e0cbb241-c24e-4ce6-925f-259e0a26a661
SNARC ID
graticule
TOID
4000000074574948
Topic's main category
Category:Hornsey
UN/LOCODE
GBHOY
Vision of Britain place ID
970
Wellcome Collection concept ID
mahkmaxz
Who's on First ID
85788337
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcGh967XT6kx9QYcKR9Xd
Yale LUX ID
place/2e147130-4804-4b65-85ff-089d9fb4b21c
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People born here 15
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, Mary Forbes, Eric Powell, Richard Turner, Lindsay Cooper, Sway, Shayon Harrison, Walter Buchanan +7 more
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Country 1
United Kingdom
Different from 1
Hornsea
FactGrid item ID 1
citation analysis
Historic county 1
Middlesex
Instance of 1
town
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
London Borough of Haringey
Named after 1
Hornsey railway station
People who died here 1
Abraham Benisch
SNARC ID 1
graticule
Shares border with 1
Alexandra Park
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hornsey
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hornsey
← Different from 1
Hornsea
← Headquarters location 1
Duple Coachbuilders
← Location of formation 1
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Summary

Hornsey is a town[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Hornsey include Hornsey railway station[16], a railway station[17], in United Kingdom[18].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Hornsey include Hornsey railway station[16], a railway station[17], in United Kingdom[18].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 51.587, 'longitude': -0.118}
    Instance of → town, area of London
    Historic county → Middlesex
    Topic's main category → Category:Hornsey
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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