[n 2] The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell (d. 1854), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip whose three marriages included two daughters of earls.

[n 4] Serious building began in 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr., who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm.

He 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 private girls' school established at the corner of Carleton and Brecknock Roads ceased in 1878 after many of its pupils drowned in the Princess Alice disaster.

Whereas arterial roads and railway lines sliced through Kentish Town and Camden in the 19th century, one neat east–west double track skirts the district.

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.