Harringay

style ornamentation with a bas-relief Green Man decoration on one of the Grand Parade Buildings]] In the Ice Age Harringay was on the edge of a huge glacial mass that reached as far south as Muswell Hill. ), tarmac to the west (ex-Hornsey)]] The area was then largely covered with forest until the Middle Ages when it was developed as agricultural land. From 1750 to 1880 Harringay experienced the pressures of the burgeoning population in London. Gradually inroads into the pastoral landscape were made, first for the leisure and then for the settlement of Londoners. By 1900 Harringay had become a respectable London-adjacent suburb with all the land built over and only Finsbury Park remaining as…