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London Borough of Islington

The London Borough of Islington is a borough in North London, England.

London Borough of Islington
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The place

The London Borough of Islington is a borough in North London, England. Forming part of Inner London, Islington has an estimated population of 215,667. It was formed in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, by the amalgamation of the metropolitan boroughs of Islington and Finsbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to London Borough of Islington

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 24 km · London Luton (LTN), 41 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km
  • London → London Borough of Islington
    5 km · quickest by road, 31 min · £0.5–1
  • Luton, Luton → London Borough of Islington
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £4.5–6
  • London, Essex → London Borough of Islington
    5 km · quickest by road, 31 min · £0.5–1
  • From anywhere
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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 London Borough of Islington

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 London Borough of Islington. 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

    125 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

Next door to London Borough of Islington

London Borough of Islington is 2 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.