Upper Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington

London Borough of Islington

The London Borough of Islington is a London borough in Inner London. It was formed in 1965 by merging the former metropolitan boroughs of Islington and Finsbury. The borough contains two Westminster parliamentary constituencies, Islington North and Islington South & Finsbury...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, centred around the A1 Holloway Road.

Overview

The name has fallen out of common use and the area is generally regarded as being a part of Archway or Holloway

Holloway, London

Holloway is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Islington located north of Charing Cross and follows for the most part, the line of the Holloway Road . At the centre of Holloway is the Nag's Head area...

. The use of 'Upper Holloway' is most often used for Upper Holloway railway station

Upper Holloway railway station

Upper Holloway railway station is in Holloway, North London, near Archway . It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, between and . It is operated by London Overground, and the service is usually one train every 20 to 30 minutes in each direction...

. Upper Holloway is the original designation of the N19

N postcode area

The N postcode area, also known as the London N postcode area, is the part of the London post town covering part of North London, England....

 postal district.

Media

The classic late Victorian comic novel Diary of a Nobody

Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888 – 89, and was first printed in book form in 1892...

is set in Upper Holloway. The BBC's BBC Doomsday Project has some content for this area here:. Digital Public art

Digital Public arts

Digital Public Art is a nascent field of public art practice resulting from a combination of Public art and Digital art. Like traditional public artworks they differ from those found in galleries and museums in that they takes place in public and it has been claimed, adhere to the following...

project landscape-Portrait

Landscape-Portrait

- Landscape-Portrait 2007 :Landscape-Portrait is a public digital artwork that for the past four years has toured around the UK. In 2007 public arts agency Forma commissioned the work as part of a series of public art works for the Dott Festival Newcastle, UK.-Landscape-Portrait - Methodologies...

asked respondents about themselves and their area. The responses below relate to the postcode N19 4EH which is in Upper Holloway or the ward of Tollington .