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Shoreditch
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{{infobox London place|right|
|Place= Shoreditch
|Borough=
London Borough of Hackney Hackney
|Traditional=
Middlesex
|Constituency=
Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency) Hackney South and Shoreditch
|PostTown= LONDON
|PostCode=
London N1 N1,
London EC1 EC1,
London EC2 EC2,
London E1 E1,
London E2 E2
|DiallingCode= 020
|GridReference= TQ325825
|GLA=
North East London}}
'''Shoreditch''' is a place in the
London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up district located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north east of
Charing Cross and is situated at the point where five postal districts converge.
Image:Shoreditch_town_hall3.jpg thumb|right|250px|Shoreditch Town Hall From 1899 until 1965 it was the core district of the
Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, the town hall of which can still be seen on
Old Street. The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was made up of three main districts in all: '''Shoreditch''',
Hoxton and
Haggerston. The whole Metropolitan Borough was incorporated into the much larger
London Borough of Hackney in 1965.
Shoreditch has become something of a moveable feast in the modern world. It is generally conflated with nearby Hoxton, leading to constructions such as 'Shoho' or 'Hoxditch'. Postwar naming decisions have not helped - for example Shoreditch Park was established, postwar, in Hoxton west of the market, while
Haggerston Park occupies the site of the old Shoreditch gasworks.
History
An old form of the name is "Soersditch", and the origin is lost, though early tradition connects it with
Jane Shore, the mistress of
Edward IV of England Edward IV.
It was the site of an Augustinian priory in the 12th Century until its dissolution in
1539. In
1576, the first playhouse in England, known as
The Theatre, was opened, and in
1577 the
Curtain Theatre was opened in the middle of what is Curtain Road today.
During the
17th century, wealthy traders and
Huguenot silk weavers moved to the area, establishing a textile industry centered to the South around Spitalfields Market. The area declined along with the textile industry and from the end of the 19th Century to the 1960s, Shoreditch was a byword for crime, prostitution and poverty.
Today
Today Shoreditch is a busy and popular district, noted for its large number of art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and an urban golf club (although the prostitution and, to a lesser degree, the textile industry still remain).
Transport
Nearest places
Image:shoreditch_st_leonards_2.jpg thumb|right|250px|The front portico and spire of St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch High Street. (January 2006)
Image:Shoreditch_kingsland_road_bridge_1.jpg thumb|right|250px|The railway bridge on Kingsland Road - an essential part of the East London Line extension. (September 2005)
In 2005 funding was announced for the
East London Line Extension which would extend the existing line from
Whitechapel tube station bypassing
Shoreditch tube station and creating a new station titled
Shoreditch High Street tube station Shoreditch High Street at the site of the old ''Bishopsgate Goods Yards'' which were demolished in 2004. The current
London Underground station is due to close permanently in June 2006 as a result of the extension.
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Bethnal Green
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City of London
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Clerkenwell
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Dalston
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Hoxton
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Haggerston
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Finsbury
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Spitalfields
Nearest tube stations
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Shoreditch tube station
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Moorgate station
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Old Street station
See also
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London art scene
References
* ''This article incorporates text from the''
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ''1911'' Encyclopædia Britannica'', which is in the
public domain.''
Category:1911 Britannica
External links
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An image of street art in Shoreditch
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Knowhere Page on Shoreditch
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urbanpath guide to nice things in Shoreditch
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Urban Golf once a year - 18 hole par72 - Shoreditch Golf Club
{{London Districts}}
Category:Districts of London
Category:Hackney
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