Crouch End Hill is a street in north London, England, running betweenCrouch End andHornsey Rise in the boroughs ofHaringey andIslington. It is not to be confused with 'Crouch Hill" which runs betweenCrouch End andStroud Green. The two roads meet at a"Y" junction in Crouch End and together the two routes constitute the southern access toCrouch End Broadway.
The street proceeds up a steep hill to the top of the ridge which here divides Haringey from Islington. The old name for this ridge along whichHornsey Lane runs and which forms the northern boundary of theParkland Walk between Crouch End Hill and Crouch Hill is the "Hog's Back".
The street is part ofLondon Buses route 41 andLondon Buses route 91
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On the way up the hill on the right hand side can be found the "Lanacombe Sauna" briefly famous for a court case in 2000 in which the then owner was prosecuted as a brothel keeper.[1] Further up, still on the right hand side as proceeding from Crouch End, can be seen Christchurch. This fine Church of England building was designed byArthur Blomfield and consecrated byArchibald Tait,Bishop of London, on Friday 27 June 1862.[2] A short distance beyond Christchurch is to be seen the original site of Coleridge Primary School, now called Coleridge West, with facing it across the road the former premises of theHornsey College of Art now Coleridge East. The two sites are linked across the road by a light controlled pedestrian crossing.
Crouch End Hill then uses a bridge to cross over a public walkway called theParkland Walk, a public foot and cycle path andlinear Park that stretches fromFinsbury Park toAlexandra Palace, and follows some of the course of theNorthern Heights planned rail extension to theNorthern line, abandoned on 9 February 1954. The only remaining buildings relating toCrouch End Station can be seen just before the bridge on the left hand side of the road; one is a building frequently used as an office, the other is a cafe called the "Crescent Cafe" after nearby Crescent Road, and which is clearly marked. There is a zebra crossing at this point. Beside the cafe is an access by stairs to the platforms of Crouch End Station and thence to theParkland Walk andCrouch Hill Park and to the site occupied byAshmount Primary School from January 2013. (There is also step free access to the Walk by a ramp from Crescent Road.)
Immediately beyond the bridge there is a T junction withHornsey Lane joining from the right with Crouch End Hill continuing straight on down the other side of the ridge, now in theLondon Borough of Islington and nowHornsey Rise.
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