KINGSLAND, a chapelry partly in the parish of
ISLINGTON, Finsbury division, and partly in that of
HACKNEY, Tower division, of the hundred of OSSULSTONE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 1 mile (N. E.) from London.
The population is returned with the parishes.
This place consists principally of several ranges of
buildings, extending a considerable distance along the
road from London to Tottenham and Edmonton.
Here are brick-fields, and some part of the ground is
occupied by nurserymen and market-gardeners. Previously
to the middle of the fifteenth century there was
at Kingsland an hospital, or house for lepers, which, after
the Reformation, became annexed to St. Bartholomew's
hospital, and was used as a kind of out-ward to that institution;
but, in 1761, the patients were removed from
Kingsland, and the site of the establishment therewas
let on a building lease, though the chapel, on the petition
of the inhabitants, was suffered to stand, as a
proprietary chapel in the patronage of the Governors
of the hospital: it is a small edifice in the early style
of English architecture. Here are places of worship for
Independents.