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Islington
District of London, England

Islington

Islington is an inner-city area of north London, England, within the wider London Borough of Islington.

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It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields and Regent's Canal, encompassing the area around the busy High Street, Upper Street, Essex Road, and Southgate Road to the east.

Get in

Getting to Islington

Islington is served by the following Tube stations, in fare zones 1, 2 and 3: Angel (Northern line) (Zone 1) Highbury & Islington (Victoria line) (Zone 2) Tufnell Park (Northern line) (Zone 2) Archway (Northern line) (Zones 2 and 3) Highgate (Northern line) (Zone 3) Finsbury Park (Victoria and Piccadilly lines) (Zone 2) Holloway Road (Piccadilly line) (Zone 2) Caledonian Road (Piccadilly line) (Zone 2) Arsenal…

  1. 01
    London King's Cross
  2. 02
    London St Pancras International in Camden

    National Rail stations within the borough include Highbury & Islington, Essex Rd, Canonbury, Finsbury Park and Upper Holloway.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    The Arsenal Museum

    Emirates Stadium, Highbury House, 75 Drayton Pk, N5 1BU (tube: Arsenal PIC ),.

  2. 02
    City Road Basin Plaza
  3. 03
    Crafts Council

    44a Pentonville Rd, N1 9BY (tube: Angel NOR ), fax: +44 20 7837-6891.

  4. 04
    Gillespie Park Ecology Centre

    191 Drayton Pk, N5 1PH (tube: Arsenal PIC ), ecologycentre@islington.gov.uk.

  5. 05
    London Canal Museum

    12/13 New Wharf Rd, N1 9RT (tube: King's Cross St.

  6. 06
    Victoria Miro Gallery

    An excellent contemporary art gallery in a converted Victorian furniture factory.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Almeida Theatre

    Almeida St, N1 1TA (tube: Highbury & Islington VIC ; just off Upper St),.

  2. 02
    Arsenal FC

    Emirates Stadium, Hornsey Rd N7 7AJ (tube: Arsenal PIC ), customer service).

  3. 03
    Everyman Screen on the Green
  4. 04
    Vue Islington

    36 Parkfield St, N1 0PS (tube: Angel NOR, 1F of the N1 shopping centre),.

  5. 05
    The Bill Murray

    39 Queen's Head St.

  6. 06
    Union Chapel

    Voted London's Best Live Music Venue by readers of Time Out magazine in 2002, 2012 and in 2014.

Eat

Where to eat

Diners are spoiled for choice in Islington, especially the Upper Street area between Angel and Highbury & Islington tube stations. A wide variety of cuisine and price ranges are available. Mediterranean food dominates but with options like Indian, Afghan, Italian, French, Thai, and South American there is food for all tastes.

  1. 01
    The Afghan Kitchen

    35 Islington Green, N1 8DU (tube: Angel NOR ),.

  2. 02
    Gallipoli Cafe & Bistro

    102 Upper St, N1 1QP (tube: Angel NOR, tube: Highbury & Islington VIC ), info@gallipolicafe.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Le Mercury

    140a Upper St, N1 1QY (tube: Highbury & Islington VIC ), info@lemercury.co.uk.

  4. 04
    Tortilla

    13 Islington High St, Angel, N1 9LQ (tube: Angel NOR, opposite the station), islington@tortilla.co.uk.

  5. 05
    Cookies and Scream

    130 Holloway Rd, Highbury East, N7 8JE (tube: Holloway Road PIC ).

How locals move

Getting around Islington the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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