Finally the road called Stoke Newington Common carrying a busy bus route chops off a section to the south.

The now buried and lost Hackney Brook once ran across the north of the common, but this has long been replaced by the busy Northwold Road.

It is a remnant of a plain where extensive evidence the earliest human occupation of Britain has been found, notably at Swanscombe in Kent.

[7]The north side of the common was overlooked by Gibson Gardens; an early example of quality tenement dwellings for working class people built in 1880 and still unchanged today, some parts are highly desirable for owner-occupiers.

Local residents campaigned unsuccessfully to have Rectory Road closed off over the common and the railway roofed for many years with the prohibitively high cost of the works reducing the possibility of success to zero.