10 Facts About Tufnell Park

Tufnell Park is an area in north London, England, in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden.

Tufnell Park Football Club was a football club based immediately south of the overground railway, where Tufnell Park Playing Fields and a playground is today.

The A1 road in the east of Tufnell Park is therefore less arterial which reinforces the loss of its old name "the Great North Road", a historical coaching road.

In 1753 the area became the property of William Tufnell Park who was granted the manor of Barnsbury by his father-in-law Sir William Halton.

Tufnell Park petitioned Parliament for authority to develop his estate but the Building Leases he was granted were left unused; his family had a set of rural estates nationwide.

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Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley, then to George's son William Tufnell, MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 heiress Mary Carleton .

Tufnell Park believed that second wave of building around Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Roads threatened to create a metropolis "from which the rich would soon be going".

The shabby genteel reputation of Tufnell Park made it a standard comic reference in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Julian and Sandy the camp BBC home service comedians frequently referenced Tufnell Park as did The Guardian newspaper's Biff cartoon in the 1980s.

Between 1999 and 2001, Tufnell Park was the location for Channel 4's comedy drama, Spaced.