Stoke Newington is the part of London that resisted the zone-one gentrification wave long enough to absorb it on its own terms. Church Street has the independent shops, the Saturday farmers' market, the old-school Turkish restaurants alongside the new coffee bars, and a general refusal to be impressed.
Abney Park Cemetery is the real draw. A Victorian dissenters' burial ground that was allowed to go wild after the 1970s, it now has mature trees growing out of cracked mausolea, paths that wind into genuine woodland, and an eerie gothic chapel at the centre. More people should know about it, and more people should go.
