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Hackney

Hackney, lying to the north-east of London, was a very fashionable place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and many notable personages resided there. By the early eighteenth century Hackney was the resort for many wealthy citizens; a 1761 report stated there near a hundred coaches kept in the village. By 1790 the population was approximately 1900 persons.

By the late eighteenth century the village (too populous then to have any sense of the rural) consisted of four streets: church Street, Mare (or Mere) Street, Grove Street and Well Street.

Hackney church was rebuilt in the late eighteenth century.

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