New North Road, Islington

It continues south-east and crosses into the London Borough of Hackney, passing to the west of Shoreditch Park.

It bears to the south, and ends at a junction with Pitfield Street.

New North Road was built to provide a new route northwards from Old Street to Highbury, as outlined in a Local Act of parliament 52 Geo.

3. c. cliv (1812): "An Act for making a Public Carriage Road from the present Turnpike Road, near the South End of Highbury Place, Islington to Haberdashers Walk, in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex.

This was during a period of land development in south-east Islington.