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Haggerston is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney. It is in East London and part of the East End. There is an electoral ward called Haggerston within the borough.
Haggerston historically formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch. In 1965, Shoreditch became part of the new London Borough of Hackney.
In the 1990s a number of the area's more rundown housing estates were refurbished and some disused public buildings were privately converted into gated communities. In 2010, Haggerston railway station re-opened, a little to the north of the original station.
In 1086, Haggerston was first recorded in Domesday Book as Hergotestane, a name that may derive from a Saxon farmer called Hærgod, who either had a 'ton' (farmstead) here or a stone that marked the boundary of his land.
Haggerston was an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. On Rocque's 1745 map of Hackney, it is shown as Agostone but by the 19th century it had become Haggerstone.
Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656. He is known as the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet that was later named after him, Halley's Comet.
At the end of the 18th century, Haggerston was still rural, with local farmers supplying nearby London with milk and dairy products and feed for horses.
The Cat & Mutton Bridge which crosses the Regents Canal still carries the name of a former alehouse that stood on the site at the extreme right, and has been closed since at least 1919. The present pub on a new site was built in 1909 as the Sir Walter Scott but is now known
Nichols Square was a development built in 1841, and featured two rows of Tudor gothic villas at its centre; it was later enhanced in 1867-9 by the addition of St Chad's church. In 1963, Nichols Square was demolished by a compulsory purchase order in order to build the Fellows Court Estate.
Haggerston railway station was opened in 1867 two years after the line to Broad Street was completed. It was originally to be known as De Beauvoir Town but this name was changed before it opened.
Ronald and Reginald Kray, identical twin gangsters known as the Kray twins, were born on 24 October 1933, on Stean Street.
The architect George Finch worked on the Suffolk Estate, which was an early low-rise, high-density scheme built in the 1950s, with a mix of flats and houses.
Haggerston Park was developed in two phases; the previously industrial northern half of the site became a public park in the late 1950s and the southern part of the park was fully developed in the 1980s. Formerly the site had been occupied by gas works operated by the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company.
In August 1990, PC Laurence Brown was murdered while responding to a 999 call along Pownall Road in Orwell Court on the Suffolk Estate. Mark Gaynor, an unemployed 20-year-old, pulled out a shotgun and fired directly at him. PC Brown collapsed and died in a car park off Pownall Road.
During the 21 July 2005 London bombings, a number 26 bus was targeted by Muktar Said Ibrahim, who attempted to explode a device while the bus was on Hackney Road from Waterloo, near the corner of Columbia Road in Bethnal Green. The bomb caused a small explosion but did not detonate as intended, and there were no deaths or significant damage.
Due to the Great Recession, Hackney Borough Council had remove funding for the reopening of the Haggerston Baths, which sparked a campaign for efforts to find financial backing and public support in an effort to re-open the East End's oldest bath.
By 2015, Haggerston's proximity to Shoreditch had made the area popular with students and workers in the creative industries, as nearby areas had grown more expensive. In recent years, escalating property prices have driven commercial art galleries further into east London, which has exacerbated this effect. For the same reason, Haggerston has been attracting tech start-ups around Silicon Roundabout in Old Street, with some people calling the area "Hackerston".
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