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Hornsey

Hornsey is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey.

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The place

Hornsey is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Charing Cross. It adjoins green spaces Queen's Wood to the west and Alexandra Park to the north, and lies in the valley of the now-culverted River Moselle. The central core of the area is known as Hornsey Village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hornsey

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 27 km · London Luton (LTN), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 41 km
  • London → Hornsey
    9 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £1
  • London, Essex → Hornsey
    9 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £1
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hornsey
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hornsey

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hornsey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    130 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    553 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    589 km

If you know how people move in Hornsey – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hornsey

Hornsey is 6 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.