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Canonbury, Islington — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Canonbury fills the Islington ground between Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross Street. St Paul's Road splits it.
About Canonbury
Where to stay in Canonbury
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Upper Street sets the tone here. Rooms nearest it put the Union Chapel and the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art within a walk, while the Essex Road side stays quieter and the streets either side of St Paul's Road run mostly to terraces rather than hotels. Canonbury Tower stands among them.
About Canonbury
What are the main landmarks in Canonbury?
Canonbury Tower is the name that carries furthest. The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art covers the art side, Union Chapel, Islington the music, and the Carlton Cinema, Islington the screen, while the Clowns Gallery-Museum and The Sunken House sit at the odder end of the same list. Churches run long here.
Newington Green Unitarian Church, the Church of Saint Peter, Islington, St Mary's Church and Christ Church are only part of the count.
What is the history of Canonbury?
Names do the dating here. Canonbury Tower carries the oldest-sounding of them, while the listed addresses along Highbury New Park, at numbers 41 and 43, 70 and 86, record a later run of houses on one street. Peabody House sits among them.
The whole of it belongs to the London Borough of Islington, the authority the wider area answers to.
Where is Canonbury?
Three streets box Canonbury in. Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross Street draw the edges, and St Paul's Road crosses the middle of the area in North London.
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Updated August 2026