page_title: Hackney, London
section_title: Post-medieval
hierarchical_section_title: Hackney, London / History / Post-medieval
caption_attribution_description: English: I did it. Attribution required. K B Thompson Morris dancing at Sutton House (NT).
context_page_description: Hackney is a district in East London, England. The area forms around two thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name. It is 4 miles northeast of Charing Cross, and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Historically it was within the county of Middlesex.
  In the past it was also referred to as Hackney Proper to distinguish it from the village which subsequently developed in the vicinity of Mare Street, the term Hackney Proper being applied to the wider district.
  Hackney is a large district, whose long established boundaries encompass the sub-districts of Homerton, Dalston, De Beauvoir Town, Upper and Lower Clapton, Stamford Hill, Hackney Central, Hackney Wick, South Hackney and West Hackney.
context_section_description: From the Tudor period onwards, the various settlements in Hackney grew as wealthy Londoners moved to what they saw as a pleasant rural alternative to living in London; but which was, nonetheless close to the capital - in some ways it was comparable to a modern commuter town.
  A number of royal courtiers lived in Homerton, while Henry VIII had a palace at Brooke House, Upper Clapton, where Queen Mary took the Oath of Supremacy.  Sutton House, the oldest surviving residential building in the district was built in 1535.
caption: Morris Dancers perform at Sutton House.
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