What is "hornsey"

Hornsey is a district of north London, England in the London Borough of Haringey. Hornsey has been a much larger ancient parish than the electoral ward of the same name, in turn a smaller entity than the Municipal Borough of Hornsey which co-governed its area with Middlesex County Council from 1889 to 1965, since which time, the name usually refers only to the London neighbourhood at the heart of these former areas to the west of Hornsey railway station. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred north of Charing Cross.

Hornsey was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It was both a civil parish, used for administrative purposes, and an ecclesiastical parish of the Church of England.

Hornsey was a parliamentary constituency covering what is now the Hornsey district of north London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1885 general election until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.