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| static_image_name = File:Tottenham Hotspur new stadium 2019.jpg| static_image_caption = View of Tottenham | charingX_distance_mi = 6| charingX_direction = SSW| area_total_sq_mi = | population = 129,237United Kingdom Census 2011>2011 census)HTTP://WWW.NEIGHBOURHOOD.STATISTICS.GOV.UK/DISSEMINATION/LEADTABLEVIEW.DO?A=7&B=6508207&C=TOTTENHAM&D=27&E=62&G=6326938&I=1001X1003X1032X1004&O=322&M=0&R=1&S=1462472756642&ENC=1&DSFAMILYID=2477 >TITLE=LOCAL STATISTICS: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS ACCESS-DATE=5 MAY 2016 ARCHIVE-DATE=10 OCTOBER 2016, dead, }}Tottenham ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɒ|t|ən|ə|m}},{{citation |last=Wells |first=John C. |year=2008 |title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary |edition=3rd |publisher=Longman |isbn=9781405881180}}{{citation |last=Roach |first=Peter |year=2011 |title=Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary |edition=18th |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521152532}} {{respell|TOT|ən|əm}}, {{IPAc-en|t|ɒ|t|n|ə|m}}, {{respell|tot|nəm}}) is a town in north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred {{cvt|6|mi|km|0}} north-northeast of Charing Cross,WEB,distancecalculator.globefeed.com/UK_Distance_Result.asp?vr=apes&fromplace=Charing%20Cross,%20London,%20England,%20UK&toplace=Tottenham,%20London,%20England,%20UK, Distance between Charing Cross, London, England, UK and Tottenham, London, England, UK (UK), 16 July 2020, 16 July 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200716191730/https://distancecalculator.globefeed.com/UK_Distance_Result.asp?vr=apes&fromplace=Charing%20Cross,%20London,%20England,%20UK&toplace=Tottenham,%20London,%20England,%20UK, live, bordering Edmonton to the north, Walthamstow, across the River Lea, to the east, and Stamford Hill to the south, with Wood Green and Harringay to the west.The area rapidly expanded in the late-19th century, becoming a working-class suburb of London following the advent of the railway and mass development of housing for the lower-middle and working classes. It has been home to the Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur since 1882. The parish of Tottenham was granted urban district status in 1894 and municipal borough status in 1934. Following the Second World War, the area saw large-scale development of council housing, including tower blocks. Until 1965 Tottenham was in the historic county of Middlesex. In 1965, the borough of Tottenham merged with the municipal boroughs of Hornsey and Wood Green to form the London Borough of Haringey.Tottenham is renowned for its multicultural, ethnically diverse population. Following an influx of an Afro-Caribbean population during the Windrush era in the mid-20th century, it became one of the most ethnically diverse areas in Britain. It has more recently become home to an increased population from Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. At the 2011 census, the population of Tottenham was 129,237.

History

Toponymy

Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book. ‘Tota’s hamlet’, it is thought, developed into ‘Tottenham’. The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book as Toteham, in the ancient hundred of Edmonton.Open Domesday: Tottenham {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428204350opendomesday.org/place/TQ3390/tottenham/ |date=28 April 2021 }}. Accessed April 2021.WEB,www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7576104&queryType=1&resultcount=2, DocumentsOnline | Image Details, The National Archives, 10 December 2009,www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7576104&queryType=1&resultcount=2," title="web.archive.org/web/20120810141637www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7576104&queryType=1&resultcount=2,">web.archive.org/web/20120810141637www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7576104&queryType=1&resultcount=2, 10 August 2012, live, It is not related to Tottenham Court Road in Central London, though the two names share a similar-sounding root.BOOK, A Dictionary of London Place-Names, A.D., Mills, Oxford University Press, 2010, 978-0-199-56678-5, 248,

Early history

(File:1619 Tottenham map (full).jpg|165px|left|thumb|Map of Tottenham in 1619)There has been a settlement at Tottenham for over a thousand years. It grew up along the old Roman road, Ermine Street (some of which is part of the present A10 road), and between High Cross and Tottenham Hale, the present Monument Way.When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, about 70 families lived within the area of the manor, mostly labourers working for the Lord of the Manor. A humorous poem entitled the Tournament of Tottenham, written around 1400, describes a mock-battle between peasants vying for the reeve’s daughter.The River Lea (or Lee) was the eastern boundary between the Municipal Boroughs of Tottenham and Walthamstow. It is the ancient boundary between Middlesex and Essex and also formed the western boundary of the Viking controlled Danelaw. Today it is the boundary between the London Boroughs of Haringey and Waltham Forest. A major tributary of the Lea, the River Moselle, also crosses the borough from west to east, and often caused serious flooding until it was mostly covered in the 19th century.From the Tudor period onwards, Tottenham became a popular recreation and leisure destination for wealthy Londoners. Henry VIII is known to have visited Bruce CastleWEB,www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp313-317, Tottenham: Growth before 1850 | British History Online, 29 June 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190629233018/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp313-317, 29 June 2019, live, and also hunted in Tottenham Wood. A rural Tottenham also featured in Izaak Walton’s book The Compleat Angler, published in 1653.WEB,manybooks.net/titles/waltonisetext058tcng10.html, The Complete Angler by Isaak Walton – Free eBook, Manybooks.net, 10 December 2009,manybooks.net/titles/waltonisetext058tcng10.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20090425150230manybooks.net/titles/waltonisetext058tcng10.html,">web.archive.org/web/20090425150230manybooks.net/titles/waltonisetext058tcng10.html, 25 April 2009, live, The area became noted for its large Quaker populationWEB,www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/MtgHouse002.html, Tottenham Quaker Meeting (Religious Society of Friends), Tottenhamquakers.org.uk, 10 December 2009,www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/MtgHouse002.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20100602021813www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/MtgHouse002.html,">web.archive.org/web/20100602021813www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/MtgHouse002.html, 2 June 2010, live, and its schools (including Rowland HillWEB, Old Schools of Tottenham,tottenham-summerhillroad.com/schools_of_tottenham.htm, tottenham-summerhillroad, 21 December 2019,tottenham-summerhillroad.com/schools_of_tottenham.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20191221151413tottenham-summerhillroad.com/schools_of_tottenham.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20191221151413tottenham-summerhillroad.com/schools_of_tottenham.htm, 21 December 2019, live, at Bruce CastleWEB,archive.org/stream/eliotpapers12howa#page/n7/mode/2up, E.Howard, Eliot Papers, 1895, 1895, 10 December 2009,www.archive.org/stream/eliotpapers12howa#page/n7/mode/2up," title="web.archive.org/web/20120625164619www.archive.org/stream/eliotpapers12howa#page/n7/mode/2up,">web.archive.org/web/20120625164619www.archive.org/stream/eliotpapers12howa#page/n7/mode/2up, 25 June 2012, live, ). Tottenham remained a semi-rural and upper middle class area until the 1870s.

Modern era

In late 1870s, the Great Eastern Railway introduced special workman’s trains and fares on its newly opened Enfield and Walthamstow branch lines. Tottenham’s low-lying fields and market gardens were then rapidly transformed into cheap housing for the lower middle and working classes, who were able to commute cheaply to inner London. The workman’s fare policy stimulated the relatively early development of the area into a London suburb.In 1894, Tottenham was made an urban district and on 27 September 1934 it became a municipal borough. As from 1 April 1965, the municipal borough formed part of the London Borough of Haringey together with Hornsey and Wood Green.An incident occurred on 23 January 1909, which was at the time known as the Tottenham Outrage.geocities.com/summerhillroad2002/tottenham_outrage1909.htm" title="web.archive.org/web/20091027122313geocities.com/summerhillroad2002/tottenham_outrage1909.htm">The Tottenham Outrage. Retrieved 2 February 2008. Two armed robbers, Latvian Jews of Russian extraction, held up the wages clerk of rubber works in Chestnut Road. They made their getaway via Tottenham Marshes and fled across the Lea. On the opposite bank of the river, they hijacked a Walthamstow Corporation tramcar, hotly pursued by the police on another tram. The hijacked tram was stopped but the robbers continued their flight on foot. After firing their weapons and killing two people, Ralph Joscelyne, aged 10, and PC William Tyler, they were eventually cornered by the police and shot themselves rather than be captured. Fourteen other people were wounded during the chase. The incident later became the subject of a silent film.Tottenham outrage- silent film {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512132134www.citwf.com/film422293.htm |date=12 May 2019 }}. Retrieved 10 November 2008.During the Second World War Tottenham was one of the many targets of the German air offensive against Britain. Bombs fell in the borough (Elmar Road) during the first air raid on London on 24 August 1940. The borough also received V-1 (four incidents) and V-2 hits, the last of which occurred on 15 March 1945. Wartime shortages led to the creation of Tottenham Pudding, a mixture of household waste food which was converted into feeding stuff for pigs and poultry.WEB,www.foodsofengland.co.uk/tottenhampudding.htm, Foods of England – Tottenham Pudding, 29 June 2019,www.foodsofengland.co.uk/tottenhampudding.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20190629232345www.foodsofengland.co.uk/tottenhampudding.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20190629232345www.foodsofengland.co.uk/tottenhampudding.htm, 29 June 2019, live, The “pudding” was named by Queen Mary on a visit to Tottenham Refuse Works. Production continued into the post-war period, its demise coinciding with the merging of the borough into the new London Borough of Haringey.

Riots

File:Tottenham, The Broadwater Farm Estate, N17 - geograph.org.uk - 235156.jpg|thumb|left|Broadwater Farm, the scene of rioting in 1985]]The Broadwater Farm riot occurred around the Broadwater Farm Estate on 6 October 1985 following the death of Cynthia Jarrett. Jarrett was a resident of Tottenham who lived about {{cvt|1|mi|km|0|spell=on}} from the estate, who died of heart failure during a police search of her home. The tension between local black youths and the largely white Metropolitan Police had been high due to a combination of local issues and the aftermath of riots in Brixton which had occurred in the previous week. The response of some of the black community in Tottenham and surrounding areas culminated in a riot beginning on Tottenham High Road and ending in Broadwater Farm Estate. One police officer, Keith Blakelock, was murdered; 58 policemen and 24 other people were injured in the fighting. Two of the policemen were injured by gunshots during the riot, the first time that firearms had been used in that type of confrontation.Newman, K. [WEB,www.police-foundation.org.uk/files/POLICE0001/speeches/1986%20Sir%20Kenneth%20Newman.pdf, Archived copy, 2011-07-21, dead,www.police-foundation.org.uk/files/POLICE0001/speeches/1986%20Sir%20Kenneth%20Newman.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20110721071915www.police-foundation.org.uk/files/POLICE0001/speeches/1986%20Sir%20Kenneth%20Newman.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20110721071915www.police-foundation.org.uk/files/POLICE0001/speeches/1986%20Sir%20Kenneth%20Newman.pdf, 21 July 2011, dmy-all, Police-Public Relations: The Pace of Change: Police Foundation Lecture 1986, The Police Foundation, 1986File: Bruce Grove Post Office, High Road N17 - geograph.org.uk - 2560665.jpg|thumb|right|The former Bruce Grove Post Office was destroyed during the 2011 Tottenham riots2011 Tottenham riotsThe 2011 Tottenham riots were a series of riots precipitated by the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man in Tottenham, by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service on 4 August 2011.NEWS, Lewis, Paul, Tottenham riots: a peaceful protest, then suddenly all hell broke loose, The Guardian, 7 August 2011, 7 August 2011,www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riots-peaceful-protest, London,www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riots-peaceful-protest," title="web.archive.org/web/20130927020437www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riots-peaceful-protest,">web.archive.org/web/20130927020437www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riots-peaceful-protest, 27 September 2013, live, NEWS, Tottenham in flames as protesters riot,www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/06/police-cars-attacked-tottenham-mark-duggan, The Guardian, 6 August 2011, London, 6 August 2011,www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/06/police-cars-attacked-tottenham-mark-duggan," title="web.archive.org/web/20130927035838www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/06/police-cars-attacked-tottenham-mark-duggan,">web.archive.org/web/20130927035838www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/06/police-cars-attacked-tottenham-mark-duggan, 27 September 2013, live, WEB, Tension builds in Enfield Town as small groups arrive in area,www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9182506.Tension_builds_in_Enfield_Town_as_small_groups_arrive_in_area/, Enfield Independent, 7 August 2011, 7 August 2011,www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9182506.Tension_builds_in_Enfield_Town_as_small_groups_arrive_in_area/," title="web.archive.org/web/20110928123711www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9182506.Tension_builds_in_Enfield_Town_as_small_groups_arrive_in_area/,">web.archive.org/web/20110928123711www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9182506.Tension_builds_in_Enfield_Town_as_small_groups_arrive_in_area/, 28 September 2011, live, {{clarify|So? A person was shot, what happened in Tottenham during the riots? Riots? Arson? Arrests?|date=July 2017}} Attacks were carried out on two police cars, a bus, a Post Office and several local shops from 8:00 pm onwards on 6 August 2011. Riot police vans attended the scene of disturbances on Tottenham High Road. Later in the evening, the riot spread, with an Aldi supermarket and a branch of Allied Carpets also destroyed by fire, and widespread looting in nearby Wood Green shopping centre and the retail park at Tottenham Hale. Several flats above shops on Tottenham High Road collapsed due to the fires. 26 shared ownership flats in the Union Point development above the Carpetright store – built in the landmark Cooperative department store building – were also destroyed by fire. The triggering event was when a group of over one hundred local Tottenham residents set out to undertake a protest march against the killing of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police officers assigned to Operation Trident earlier in the week. The crowd made up of Duggan’s family and local community leaders, gathered outside Tottenham police station on 6 August 2011 to protest the failure of the police to provide family members with a formal notice of the killing.JOURNAL, Elster, Julius, 2020-03-31, Youth voices in post-English riots Tottenham: The role of reflexivity in negotiating negative representations, The Sociological Review, 68, 6, en, 1386–1402, 10.1177/0038026120915706, 216285672, 0038-0261,repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5713/1/Youth%20voices%20in%20post-English%20riots%20Tottenham%20-%20final%20manuscript%20for%20The%20Sociological%20Review%20-%20Dr%20Julius%20Elster.pdf, 28 August 2020, 7 May 2020,repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5713/1/Youth%20voices%20in%20post-English%20riots%20Tottenham%20-%20final%20manuscript%20for%20The%20Sociological%20Review%20-%20Dr%20Julius%20Elster.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20200507103917repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5713/1/Youth%20voices%20in%20post-English%20riots%20Tottenham%20-%20final%20manuscript%20for%20The%20Sociological%20Review%20-%20Dr%20Julius%20Elster.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20200507103917repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5713/1/Youth%20voices%20in%20post-English%20riots%20Tottenham%20-%20final%20manuscript%20for%20The%20Sociological%20Review%20-%20Dr%20Julius%20Elster.pdf, live, The circumstances surrounding Duggan’s death were not entirely clear at the time of the riot. On 17 August 2011, the Prince of Wales and his wife Duchess of Cornwall visited an emergency center to meet victims of the riots.News report {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928124830www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9200794.Royal_couple_visit_Tottenham_riot_relief_centre/ |date=28 September 2011 }} Retrieved 22 August 2011

Railway history

• The Northern and Eastern Railway – running from Stratford to Broxbourne – was opened on 15 September 1840 with two stations in the district: Tottenham and Marsh Lane.
• The Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway was opened on 21 July 1868. South Tottenham station was opened in 1871. St Ann’s Road opened in 1882 but closed after service on 8 August 1942.
• The Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway – The section between Stoke Newington and Lower Edmonton opened on 22 July 1872 with stations in Tottenham at Stamford Hill (half of the station lies in the borough), Seven Sisters, Bruce Grove and White Hart Lane.
• The Palace Gates Line opened in Tottenham on 1 January 1878 with stations at Seven Sisters and West Green. Passenger services ceased in 1963 with the line finally closing on 7 February 1965.
• The Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway opened on 9 July 1894.
• The first section of the London Underground’s Victoria line opened on 1 September 1968.

Governance

Parliament

Tottenham is the biggest part of the parliamentary constituency of Tottenham. The constituency was created in 1885 when the first MP was Joseph Howard of the Conservative Party. The boundaries were redrawn in 1918, and Tottenham was divided into two separate constituencies: Tottenham North and Tottenham South. Since being reinstated in 1950, it has been predominantly represented by MPs from the Labour Party, with the exception of Alan Brown who defected to the Conservatives due to disagreement with the Labour Party’s defence policy at the time. The current MP is David Lammy who won a by-election in 2000 following the death of Bernie Grant.

Local government

Tottenham was at the center of a local administrative area from the medieval period until 1965. The administrative area developed from a parish in Middlesex into an Urban sanitary district in 1875, after a local board of health had been established in 1850. It was then divided in 1888 and Wood Green became a separate authority.VOB,www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043,www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043, Tottenham parish, 10 February 2008, dead,www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043," title="web.archive.org/web/20120627103755www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043,">web.archive.org/web/20120627103755www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043, 27 June 2012, dmy-all, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627103755www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043 |date=27 June 2012 }} In 1894, Tottenham was reconstituted first as an urban district, based at Tottenham Town Hall, then as a municipal borough in 1934.See Municipal Borough of Tottenham article. Under the Local Government Act 1963, it became part of the larger London Borough of Haringey. The Tottenham neighbourhood is now one of twenty neighbourhoods in Haringey.

Geography

Its elevation is approximately {{cvt|10|m|ft|order=flip}} above sea level.

Sub-districts

Because of Tottenham’s long history as a borough, the Tottenham name is used by some to this day to describe the whole of the area formerly covered by the old borough, incorporating the N17 postcode area and part of N15.WEB,www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5932011,-0.0890297,14z/data=!4m2!6m1!1s1QPISP_a0mDHmz6nuOGhCcHBRi2jp5JLU, Google Maps, 2 August 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190802172503/https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5932011,-0.0890297,14z/data%3D!4m2!6m1!1s1QPISP_a0mDHmz6nuOGhCcHBRi2jp5JLU, 2 August 2019, live, However, there are differing views as to what constitutes the Tottenham neighbourhood in the present day. Many think of Tottenham today as most of the area covered by the N17 post code, sometimes using the phrase ‘Tottenham Proper’ to describe it and to distinguish it from the other parts of the old borough.WEB,londonpostcodewalks.wordpress.com/tag/tottenham-hotspur/, One such example is given on the Tottenham entry on the Postcodes Walks website, 14 December 2015, 21 April 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180421100514/https://londonpostcodewalks.wordpress.com/tag/tottenham-hotspur/, 21 April 2018, live,

• North: This area stretches along Tottenham High Road from the Edmonton border in the north to Lordship Lane in the south: districts include Little Russia and Northumberland Park.
• Central: Continuing along the high road, the central area includes Bruce Grove, Tottenham Green and Tottenham Hale wards, as well as Tottenham Hale station and retail park.
• West: To the west of the area are Broadwater Farm and the Tower Gardens Estate.
• South: Further along the A10 road until St Ann’s Road, including South Tottenham and Seven Sisters.

Neighbouring areas

• Edmonton
• Harringay
• Noel Park
• Palmers Green
• St Ann’s
• Tottenham Hale
• Walthamstow
• West Green
• Wood Green
• South Tottenham

Demography

A claim made by MP David Lammy in 2011, indicated that at that time Tottenham had the highest unemployment rate in London and the eighth highest in the United Kingdom, and it had some of the highest poverty rates within the country.WEB, David Lammie, Response to the Comprehensive Spending Review, 25 February 2011,www.davidlammy.co.uk/Respond_to_the_Comprehensive_Spending_Review, dead,www.davidlammy.co.uk/Respond_to_the_Comprehensive_Spending_Review," title="web.archive.org/web/20110725225202www.davidlammy.co.uk/Respond_to_the_Comprehensive_Spending_Review,">web.archive.org/web/20110725225202www.davidlammy.co.uk/Respond_to_the_Comprehensive_Spending_Review, 25 July 2011, dmy-all,

Ethnic composition

Tottenham has a multicultural population, with many ethnic groups inhabiting the area. It contains one of the largest and most significant populations of Afro-Caribbean people. These were among the earliest groups of immigrants to settle in the area, starting from the UK’s Windrush era. The Seven Sisters ward has the largest proportion of Jewish residents among Haringey wards, at 18.1%.WEB,www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/ward_profile_seven_sisters.pdf, Haringey Ward Profile : Seven Sisters, Haringey.gov.uk, 25 June 2021, 23 September 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210923213032/https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/ward_profile_seven_sisters.pdf, live, In the 2011 UK Census, the ethnic composition of the Tottenham constituency, of which Tottenham is a large part, was as follows:WEB,ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tottenham/, UK Polling Report, ukpollingreport.co.uk, 5 May 2016,ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tottenham/," title="web.archive.org/web/20160625054657ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tottenham/,">web.archive.org/web/20160625054657ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tottenham/, 25 June 2016, live,

• 27.7% Other White
• 26.7% Black
• 22.3% White British
• 10.7% Asian
• 12.6% Other/Mixed

Crime

Tottenham has been one of the main hotspots for gangs and gun crime in the United Kingdom during the past three decades. This followed the rise of gangs and drug wars throughout the area, notably those involving the Tottenham Mandem gang and various gangs from Hackney and all of the areas surrounding Tottenham, and the emergence of an organised crime ring known as the Turkish mafia fought other London gangs to allegedly control more than 90% of the UK’s heroin market.NEWS, Tony Thompson,www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/17/drugsandalcohol.ukcrime1, London, The Guardian, Heroin ‘emperor’ brings terror to UK streets, 17 November 2002, 18 December 2016,web.archive.org/web/20160725231945/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/17/drugsandalcohol.ukcrime1, 25 July 2016, live, In 1999, Tottenham was identified as one of the yardies’ strongholds in London, along with Hackney, Harlesden, Peckham and Brixton.NEWS,news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/398197.stm, Police tackle London’s Yardies, BBC News, 16 May 2016,news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/398197.stm," title="web.archive.org/web/20080321070145news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/398197.stm,">web.archive.org/web/20080321070145news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/398197.stm, 21 March 2008, live,

Landmarks and notable places

File:Former Tottenham Town Hall (9152571585).jpg|thumb|Tottenham Town HallTottenham Town HallFile:Bruce Castle front 2024-02-24 (1).jpg|thumb|Bruce CastleBruce Castle

• All Hallows Church – This is the oldest surviving building in Haringey and dates back to Norman times. For more than 700 years it was the original parish church for Tottenham. Presented in 1802 with a bell from the Quebec Garrison, which was captured from the French in the 1759 Battle of Quebec, Canada. Adjacent to the church is Tottenham Cemetery.
• Broadwater Farm – Housing estate completed 1967. Site of the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985.
• Brook Street Chapel – Non-denominational Christian chapel, established in 1839, and one of the earliest Plymouth Brethren /Open Brethren assemblies in London that still exists. The church was associated with local notable Christians such as Hudson Taylor, Dr Barnardo, John Eliot Howard, Luke Howard and Philip Gosse.WEB,brookstreetchapel.com/, Brook Street Chapel, Brook Street Chapel, 31 October 2009, 10 December 2009,brookstreetchapel.com/," title="web.archive.org/web/20110708095358brookstreetchapel.com/,">web.archive.org/web/20110708095358brookstreetchapel.com/, 8 July 2011, live,
• Bruce Castle, Lordship Lane – Grade 1 listed, it was Tottenham’s manor house and dates from the sixteenth century, with alterations by subsequent occupants. It was given the name ‘Bruce Castle’ during the seventeenth century by the 2nd Lord Coleraine, who was Lord of the Manor at the time. He named it after ‘Robert the Bruce’, whose family had been lords of the manor during the medieval period. The building was purchased by the Hill family, who turned it into a progressive school. Sir Rowland Hill was its first headmaster, and he was living there in 1840 when he, as Postmaster General, introduced the Uniform Penny Post.WEB,www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/brucecastlemuseum.htm, Bruce Castle Museum, Haringey.gov.uk, 10 December 2009, dead,www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/brucecastlemuseum.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20100424043036www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/brucecastlemuseum.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20100424043036www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/brucecastlemuseum.htm, 24 April 2010, dmy-all, Now a local history museum, Bruce Castle holds the archives of the London Borough of Haringey.
• 7 Bruce Grove – The building features an English Heritage blue plaque commemorating Luke Howard (1772–1864), the ‘Father of Meteorology’, who named the clouds in 1802.
• Chapel Place, White Hart Lane: now the Living Word Temple, it was built in 1826 as a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to St Francis de Sales, and founded the eponymous school in Brereton Road. Later served as a clothes factory before being restored to use as a place of worship.WEB, Tottenham: Roman catholicism Pages 355–356 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham,www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp355-356, British History Online, Victoria County History, 1976, 14 November 2022, 14 November 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221114091931/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp355-356, live,
• Clyde Circus conservation area.WEB, Haringey conservation areas are losing their character,www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/news/4459355.haringey-conservation-areas-are-losing-their-character/, 2022-11-03, Tottenham Independent, 25 June 2009, en, 3 November 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221103145647/https://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/news/4459355.haringey-conservation-areas-are-losing-their-character/, live,
• Downhills Park.
• Edmanson’s Close – Previously known as the Almshouses of the Drapers’ Company, they were built in 1870 and were established through the generosity of three seventeenth-century benefactors, Sir John Jolles, John Pemel and John Edmanson.
• High Cross – Erected sometime between 1600 and 1609 on the site of an earlier Christian cross, although there is some speculation that the first structure on the site was a Roman beacon or marker, situated on a low summit on Ermine Street. Tottenham High Cross is often mistakenly thought to be an Eleanor cross.
• Lordship Recreation Ground.
• Markfield Beam Engine.
• Northumberland Development Project, incorporating a new stadium for Tottenham Hotspur.
• Northumberland Row – Erected circa 1740 on the site of the former Smithson seat, previously that of the Hynningham family. The gate piers are possibly from Bruce Castle. The wrought iron gate bears the monogram HS for one of the two Hugh Smithsons, both Tottenham landowners and sometime MPs for Middlesex.
• Tottenham Cemetery – A large cemetery, which makes up part of an open access area of land and habitat, along with Bruce Castle Park and All Hallows Churchyard.WEB,www.london.gov.uk/wildweb/PublicSiteView.do?siteid=6626, London Wildweb,www.london.gov.uk/wildweb/PublicSiteView.do?siteid=6626," title="web.archive.org/web/20090208092624www.london.gov.uk/wildweb/PublicSiteView.do?siteid=6626,">web.archive.org/web/20090208092624www.london.gov.uk/wildweb/PublicSiteView.do?siteid=6626, 25 June 2022, 8 February 2009,
• Tottenham Marshes (part of the Lee Valley Regional Park).
• Tottenham War Services Institute.
• Tower Gardens Estate – Previously known as the LCC White Hart Lane Estate, this “out of county” LCC cottage housing estate was constructed beginning in 1904. The architectural style is said to be inspired by houses in Ghent, Belgium. The estate was the home of Harry Champion, a well-known music hall star and performer of the song “I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am”.
• Tottenham Town Hall – A Grade II listed Edwardian building.

Transport

London Underground

The Victoria line passes through Tottenham, calling at Seven Sisters and Tottenham Hale. This connects Tottenham directly to Walthamstow, the West End and Brixton.MAP/STANDARD TUBE MAP, The line has its operating depot in the area at Northumberland Park.

National Rail

(File:White Hart Lane stn new eastern building2.jpg|thumb|White Hart Lane station, as viewed from Love Lane)The area is served by two train operating companies:

London Overground

• From {{rws|Seven Sisters}}, {{rws|Bruce Grove}} and {{rws|White Hart Lane}} stations, the Lea Valley lines provide services between {{rws|Liverpool Street}}, {{rws|Chingford}}, {{rws|Cheshunt}} and {{rws|Enfield Town}}
• The Gospel Oak to Barking line serves {{rws|South Tottenham}} station.WEB, Transport for London, London Overground Timetables, 10 December 2023, 23 April 2024,tfl.gov.uk/modes/london-overground/london-overground-timetables,

Greater Anglia

• The Lea Valley lines, via {{rws|Tottenham Hale}} and {{rws|Northumberland Park}}, host stopping services between Liverpool Street, {{rws|Stratford}}, {{rws|Cheshunt}}, {{rws|Hertford East}} and {{rws|Bishops Stortford}}.
• The West Anglia Main Line links Tottenham Hale station with Liverpool Street, Bishop’s Stortford, {{rws|Stansted Airport}} and {{rws|Cambridge}}.WEB, Greater Anglia, Timetables, 10 December 2023, 23 April 2024,www.greateranglia.co.uk/timetables,

Buses

Tottenham is well served by many London Bus routes, including: 41, 76, 123, 149, 192, 230, 243, 259, 279, 318, 341, 349, 476, W3 and W4WEB,www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/TOM.pdf, National Rail Tottenham Bus Map, 24 April 2018,www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/TOM.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20170506052452www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/TOM.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20170506052452www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/TOM.pdf, 6 May 2017, live,

Cycling

The area is connected to both London and National cycle networks, with provisions for recreational and commuter cycling across Tottenham.

• National Cycle Route 1 (NCR 1) – through Tottenham, NCR 1 runs along a north–south axis, following the River Lea towpath. To the south, NCR 1 passes through Hackney Marshes and Victoria Park. The route terminates in Dover, Kent. To the north, NCR 1 follows the towpath through Enfield Lock towards Roydon, Essex. The route terminates in the Shetland Islands, Scotland.WEB,www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/london20docklands20leaflet.pdf, London Docklands and Lea Valley, Sustrans,www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/london20docklands20leaflet.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20170922121040www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/london20docklands20leaflet.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20170922121040www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/london20docklands20leaflet.pdf, 22 September 2017, WEB, Route 1,www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/route-1, Sustrans, live,web.archive.org/web/20190414233739/https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/route-1, 14 April 2019,
• Cycle Superhighway 1 (CS1) – CS1 begins in Tottenham, on the High Road near the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. CS1 runs north–south on residential or quiet roads from Tottenham, through Dalston to the City of London. Some of the route runs on segregated cycle track between Seven Sisters and South Tottenham railway stations.WEB, Cycle Superhighway Route 1,content.tfl.gov.uk/cycle-superhighway-route-1-map-city-to-tottenham.pdf, Transport for London (TfL), live,content.tfl.gov.uk/cycle-superhighway-route-1-map-city-to-tottenham.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20190429095103content.tfl.gov.uk/cycle-superhighway-route-1-map-city-to-tottenham.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20190429095103content.tfl.gov.uk/cycle-superhighway-route-1-map-city-to-tottenham.pdf, 29 April 2019,
• Quietway 2 (Q2) – Q2 skirts around Tottenham’s south-eastern edge. Running on towpaths, quiet roads and residential streets, Q2 runs unbroken from Russell Square to Walthamstow.WEB,content.tfl.gov.uk/q2-bloomsbury-walthamstow-east.pdf, Quietway 2 (East): Bloomsbury to Walthamstow, Transport for London (TfL),content.tfl.gov.uk/q2-bloomsbury-walthamstow-east.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20190407114313content.tfl.gov.uk/q2-bloomsbury-walthamstow-east.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20190407114313content.tfl.gov.uk/q2-bloomsbury-walthamstow-east.pdf, 7 April 2019,
• EuroVelo 2 (The Capitals Route) – EuroVelo 2 (EV2) is a long-distance, international cycle route running from Moscow, Russia to Galway, Ireland. The route follows the course of NCR 1 through Tottenham.WEB,www.eurovelo.com/en/eurovelos/eurovelo-2/countries/united-kingdom, EuroVelo 2: United Kingdom, EuroVelo, 14 April 2019,www.eurovelo.com/en/eurovelos/eurovelo-2/countries/united-kingdom," title="web.archive.org/web/20190408141335www.eurovelo.com/en/eurovelos/eurovelo-2/countries/united-kingdom,">web.archive.org/web/20190408141335www.eurovelo.com/en/eurovelos/eurovelo-2/countries/united-kingdom, 8 April 2019, live,

The River Lea towpath is a shared-use path maintained by the Canal and River Trust.WEB, Canal Cycling Routes,canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/cycling/canal-cycling-routes, Canal and River Trust, live,web.archive.org/web/20190406232851/https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/cycling/canal-cycling-routes, 6 April 2019, Cycling infrastructure in maintained primarily by Transport for London (TfL) and the London Borough of Haringey.

Sport

File:Totenham Hotspur Stadium during Covid-19 pandemic Haringey London England 1.jpg|thumb|Tottenham Hotspur StadiumTottenham Hotspur StadiumTottenham is the home of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur. From 1899 until 2017, the club’s home ground was White Hart Lane. In 2017, White Hart Lane ground closed and demolition commenced to make way for a new stadium on the same site, known as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, as part of a wider project for the redevelopment of the area. The new stadium was due to open in September 2018, but was delayed until later in the 2018–19 season. The stadium was opened on 3 April 2019. For the 2017–18 season and most of the 2018–19 season, the club played their home games at Wembley.Tottenham also has two non-League football clubs, Haringey Borough F.C. who currently play at Coles Park Stadium and Park View who play at the White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre.

Media

The Tottenham & Wood Green Independent is a local newspaper published by Newsquest.WEB,www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/, News and sport from Tottenham, Wood Green, Haringey, Crouch End, and Muswell Hill, Thetottenhamindependent.co.uk, 25 June 2022, 18 June 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220618183749/https://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/, live,

In popular culture

{{Anchor|TottenhamCake}}Tottenham cake is a sponge cake baked in large metal trays, covered either in pink icing or jam (and occasionally decorated with shredded desiccated coconut). Tottenham cake’s origins are unclear. There is reference to “tottenham cakes” as early as 1891 when the Far Famed Cake Company are credited as the originators of the confection.NEWS, 1891-10-20, THE FAR FAMED CAKE COMPANY: A Visit to their works at Rifle-Street.,www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004613/18911020/065/0004, subscription, 2024-01-27, East End News and London Shipping Chronicle, Another source states the cake “was originally sold by the baker Henry Chalkley from 1901, who was a Friend (or Quaker), at the price of one old penny, with smaller mis-shaped pieces sold for half an old penny”. The pink colouring was derived from mulberries found growing at the Tottenham Friends burial ground.WEB, Ferris, Ken, Lane, Wyart, Frequently Asked Questions about the Spurs, The ‘My Eyes Have Seen the Glory’ website,www.mehstg.com/faqs.htm, HTTP, 22 September 2009,www.mehstg.com/faqs.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20090226225910www.mehstg.com/faqs.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20090226225910www.mehstg.com/faqs.htm, 26 February 2009, live, Originally “a peculiar local invention“WEB, Dressed in Simplicity: 300 years of Quakers in Tottenham,www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/Tott1800s005.html, 30 January 2014,www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/Tott1800s005.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20120704184837www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/Tott1800s005.html,">web.archive.org/web/20120704184837www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk/history/Tott1800s005.html, 4 July 2012, live, of north London, the cake was later mass-produced by bakery chains such as Percy Ingle and Greggs.WEB,southtottenham.org/blog/tottenham-cake-recipe/, Tottenham Cake Recipe and History, 21 September 2013, en-US, 2019-05-25,southtottenham.org/blog/tottenham-cake-recipe/," title="web.archive.org/web/20190525232922southtottenham.org/blog/tottenham-cake-recipe/,">web.archive.org/web/20190525232922southtottenham.org/blog/tottenham-cake-recipe/, 25 May 2019, live, WEB, Have you heard about the ‘Greggs Secret Menu’?,www.greggs.co.uk/news/have-you-heard-about-the-greggs-secret-menu, Greggs, 28 April 2023, The cake featured on The Great British Bake Off TV programme broadcast Tuesday 17 September 2013 on BBC2.WEB,www.haringey.gov.uk/libraries-sport-and-leisure/culture-and-entertainment/visiting-haringey/bruce-castle-museum/tottenham-cake, Tottenham Cake {{!, Haringey Council|website=Haringey.gov.uk |access-date=2019-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525232931www.haringey.gov.uk/libraries-sport-and-leisure/culture-and-entertainment/visiting-haringey/bruce-castle-museum/tottenham-cake |archive-date=25 May 2019 |url-status=live}}

Notable residents

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References

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External links

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• EB1911, Tottenham, 27, 92, x,
• Tottenham Civic Society
• Tottenham: Growth before 1850 on British History Online
• The Harris Lebus history website – the furniture factory was once one of the largest local employers at Tottenham Hale, until its closure in the 1960s
• www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/49/a6095649.shtml" title="archive.today/20130114004448www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/49/a6095649.shtml">World War Two memories (V2 rocket attack on Tottenham Grammar School)
• www.met.police.uk/history/tottenham_outrage.htm" title="web.archive.org/web/20020209162206www.met.police.uk/history/tottenham_outrage.htm">1909 Tottenham Outrage

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