Situated in the heart of village-like Highbury, Canning Road is a delightful tree-lined street, with excellent nearby transport links providing easy access to the City, West End and beyond.
Highbury has a genuine ‘village feel’, with excellent family-run restaurants, friendly pubs and a variety of useful shops all within five minutes walk.
The nearby former Arsenal FC ground is being sensitively developed into luxury apartments, and Highbury residents will soon benefit from The Stadium’s new entertainment and retail facilities, and grounds designed by an award-winning landscape architect.
Highbury is also just a walk or short bus ride away from Upper Street, one of the best spots for contemporary dining and nightlife in London, and also Stoke Newington’s fashionable Church Street.
Highbury enjoys fantastic travel links, with residents able to walk to three tube stations (for Piccadilly and Victoria line services), two overground rail lines as well as buses, providing easy access to the City, West End, Hertfordshire and now also Paris, with just three stops from St Pancras International. N5 also benefits from good nearby road links, with easy access to the A1/M1.
The area also enjoys excellent local amenities, green spaces and sporting facilities within walking distance, at Highbury Fields and Clissold Park, including tennis courts, swimming pools and the new Clissold Leisure Centre, plus a climbing centre and numerous private gyms.
LINKS
Pubs within 5 minutes walk - our favourites
The Woodbine - http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/16/1683/Woodbine/Highbury
The Bank of Friendship - http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/51/5119/Bank_of_Friendship/Highbury
Restaurants within 5 minutes walk - our favourites
Il Bacio – Italian - http://www.ilbaciohighbury.co.uk/highburyindex.htm
San Danielle de Fruili – Italian - http://www.london-eating.co.uk/6978.htm
String Ray – Italian - http://www.stringraycafe.co.uk/stringray_highbury/index.html
Iznik – Turkish - http://www.iznik.co.uk/
Exquisto – Mexican - http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/reviews/10586.html
Pizzadelique - Mexican and Italian - http://www.islington.org.uk/food/restshow.php?id=158
Little Sardegna - Italian and Spanish - http://www.littlesardegna.co.uk
Other nightlife within walking distance
Upper Street - http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/islingtn/is_intro.htm
Stoke Newington Church Street - http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/stoke_newington_church_street_6cd.html
Open spaces
Clissold Park - http://www.clissoldpark.com/
Highbury Fields - http://www.islington.gov.uk/Leisure/outdoor/parks/
Transport
Transport for London - http://www.tfl.gov.uk/
Leisure
Local leisure centres include Highbury Pool - http://www.aquaterra.org/Islington/
Highbury Fields Tennis - http://www.ukattraction.com/london/highbury-fields-public-tennis.htm
Clissold Park Tennis - http://www.clissoldpark.com/sports.htm
Clissold Leisure Centre - http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cs-clissold-leisure-centre.htm
Castle Climbing Centre - http://www.castle-climbing.co.uk/
Other facilities
Highbury Square - http://www.thestadium-highbury.com/stadium_main.htm
Emirates Stadium - http://www.arsenal.com/emirates
Arsenal Football Club - http://www.arsenal.com
Arts
Sadler's Wells - http://www.sadlerswells.com/
Islington Arts Factory - http://www.islingtonartsfactory.org.uk/
Almeida Theatre - http://www.almeida.co.uk/
The Old Red Lion Theatre - http://www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk/
The Hens and Chickens Theatre - http://unrestrictedview.co.uk/page/venue.php?id=1
The Screen On The Green - http://www.screencinemas.co.uk/green.php
Islington local information
Islington Council - http://www.islington.gov.uk/
Interactive Islington map - http://webgis.islington.gov.uk/Website/Internet/Public_Interactive_Islington/viewer.asp
My Islington - http://www.myislington.co.uk/
Angel Islington Online - http://www.angelislington.net/