Tottenham is a town in North London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.
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18 Facts About Tottenham
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Tottenham is centred 6 miles north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton to the north, Walthamstow, across the River Lea, to the east, and Stamford Hill to the south, with Wood Green and Harringay to the west.
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The parish of Tottenham was granted urban district status in 1894 and municipal borough status in 1934.
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In 1965, the borough of Tottenham merged with the municipal boroughs of Hornsey and Wood Green to form the London Borough of Haringey.
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Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
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In 1894, Tottenham was made an urban district and on 27 September 1934 it became a municipal borough.
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Tottenham is the biggest part of the parliamentary constituency of Tottenham.
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Tottenham was at the center of a local administrative area from the medieval period until 1965.
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In 1894, Tottenham was reconstituted first as an urban district, based at Tottenham Town Hall, then as a municipal borough in 1934.
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The Tottenham neighbourhood is one of twenty neighbourhoods in Haringey.
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Claim made by MP David Lammy in 2011, indicated that at that time Tottenham had the highest unemployment rate in London and the eighth highest in the United Kingdom, and it had some of the highest poverty rates within the country.
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Tottenham has a multicultural population, with many ethnic groups inhabiting the area.
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Tottenham has been one of the main hotspots for gangs and gun crime in the United Kingdom during the past three decades.
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South Tottenham is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, on the London Overground network.
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Tottenham is the home of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur.
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Tottenham has two non-League football clubs, Haringey Borough F C who currently play at Coles Park Stadium and Park View who play at the White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre.
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Tottenham cake is a sponge cake baked in large metal trays, covered either in pink icing or jam .
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