Newington Green is an open space in North London that straddles the border between Islington and Hackney.
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21 Facts About Newington Green
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The Newington Green is in N16 and the area is covered by the N16, N1 and N5 postcodes.
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Newington Green later found himself a member of the jury that convicted Anne of adultery.
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Newington Green's home, Brook House, stood at the northeast corner of the square.
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Famous 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys was sent to the Newington Green and Kingsland area by his mother in order to benefit from the fresh air and open spaces of what was a rural area at that time.
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Newington Green's history is marked by several streets in the area taking their name from this period, such as King Henry's Walk, Boleyn Road, Wolsey Road and Queen Elizabeth's Walk.
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Newington Green arrived in 1758 with his wife Sarah, and took up residence in No 54 the Green, in the middle of a terrace even then a hundred years old.
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Newington Green had made its mark on Mary, and through this founding work of feminist philosophy, on the world.
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Newington Green's wife, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, was a prolific writer, admired by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth.
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Newington Green enjoyed a long friendship with Joseph Priestley and William Enfield, starting from their years together at the Warrington Academy in the 1760s, where her father was a tutor.
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Newington Green wrote poems, hymns, children's literature, and political and religious tracts.
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Newington Green was an abolitionist, addressing one of her works to William Wilberforce.
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The nature of Newington Green had changed—the fresh bucolic village had been swallowed up by London's relentless growth, and had become a "thriving and expanding suburb".
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Some individuals who lived at the Newington Green during this period included Thomas Rees, the minister after Barbauld, who was a leading authority of the history of Unitarianism, and made connections with the Unitarian Church of Transylvania.
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Newington Green led the Newington Green Conversation Society, membership restricted to 16, a successor to the Mutual Instruction Society.
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Newington Green set up Oxford Summer Schools for the training of Sunday School teachers and Winifred House Invalid Children's Convalescent Home.
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The Newington Green was regenerated to include more lawn space, a play area and a cafe.
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Newington Green has grown in popularity with the local community, evinced by the children that now play in the formerly deserted park, which is once more being used like a village green.
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Newington Green used his inaugural column in the N16 magazine to address the international furore around Gene Robinson's election as bishop.
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Newington Green was written about as the Right-On Reverend in The Oldie's monthly "East of Islington" column.
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