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Pentonville

Area in North London, England

Field	Value
country	England
region	London
official_name	Pentonville
coordinates
os_grid_reference	TQ315835
london_borough	Islington
post_town	LONDON
postcode_area	N
postcode_district	N1
dial_code	020
constituency_westminster	Islington South and Finsbury
charingX_distance_mi	1.75
charingX_direction	SSW
static_image_name	Calshot Street, Pentonville - geograph.org.uk - 1603724.jpg

Pentonville is an area in North London, located in the London Borough of Islington. It is located 1+3/4 mi north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road. Pentonville developed in the northwestern edge of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell on the New Road. It is named after Henry Penton, the developer of the area.

History

A map showing Pentonville ward of Finsbury Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1952.

The area is named after Henry Penton, who developed a number of streets in the 1770s in what was open countryside adjacent to the New Road. Pentonville was part of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell, and was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury by the London Government Act 1899. It has been part of the London Borough of Islington since 1965. There was a Pentonville ward from 1965 to 1978, electing three councillors to Islington London Borough Council.

The church of St Silas (Church of England)

Geography

Nearby places include Islington, St. Pancras and Finsbury.

Pentonville is not the location of HM Prison Pentonville, which is located on Caledonian Road, some distance north in Barnsbury.

Transport

The closest tube stations are Angel and King's Cross St Pancras.

In popular culture

Mr Brownlow, a character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838), lives in "a quiet shady street near Pentonville" in the novel and most film versions. However, in the musical adaptation, Oliver!, he lives in Bloomsbury Square.
Mr Guppy, a law clerk in Dickens's novel Bleak House (1853), has "lodgings at Penton Place, Pentonville. It is lowly, but airy, open at the back, and considered one of the 'ealthiest outlets."
Hyacinth Robinson, the central character in Henry James' The Princess Casamassima (1886), lives in Pentonville with his adoptive mother who works as a seamstress.
"Pentonville" is a track on the Babyshambles album Down in Albion (2005).

References

Pevsner, Nikolaus. (1952). "London except the Cities of London and Westminster". [[Penguin Books]].

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