11 Facts About Upper Clapton

Upper Clapton is a district of East London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney.

Hamlet of Upper Clapton emerged in the manor and Ancient Parish of Hackney.

Hamlet of Upper Clapton was, from 1339 until the 18th century normally rendered as Clopton, meaning the "farm on the hill".

Upper Clapton has never been an administrative unit, it has never had any defined boundaries, though the E5 postcode area has been influential in shaping perceptions of the area's extent, E5 occupies most of the north-east of Hackney.

Upper Clapton was a linear hamlet covering an extended roadside area.

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Junction with Lea Bridge Road is still used to define Upper and Lower Clapton; Kenninghall Road is an extension of Lea Bridge Road and as such provides a convenient point of reference between the two parts of Clapton.

In 2018, parts of Upper Clapton were flooded due to a burst water main on Waterworks Lane off the Lea Bridge Road, with flood water pouring into the River Lea.

Upper Clapton is home to one of London's more unusual churches, the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was used as a place of worship by a splinter group of the Catholic Apostolic Church and now is used by the Georgian Orthodox Church.

The Upper Clapton church had already been abandoned by the cult and was acquired first by the Ancient Catholic Church in 1956, and then by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2005.

Large parts of Lower Upper Clapton look much as they did when the area was first developed in the second half of the 19th century.

Leyton Orient, founded in 1881 and playing as Upper Clapton Orient were based in the area, before moving to Leyton in 1937.