Highbury New Park


Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington which runs from Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove in the south.

Buildings

The road was developed by Henry Rydon from 1853 in order to attract prosperous city businessmen to the area and there are now a large number of grade II listed Victorian villas in the road.

Notable former residents

In The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield, Mr. Fast the main protagonist has a ground floor apartment at 14 Highbury New Park. His nemesis Mr. Fishbane, and the eponymous ghost, have the basement flat in the same building.