User:Simply south/Archway

New workplace, named in honour of the first (okay only on this page) article to be written up here

=Highgate Archway= Highgate Archway also known as Archway Bridge, The Archway and Suicide Bridge but officially the Hornsey Lane Bridge, is a bridge in Archway, London.

Name
Highgate Archway is named after the place it joined to before the area became known as Archway. Highgate was a village that was so called as it was a toll on one of the highest points in London, to travellers traversing the Bishop of London's road across his park. This place was recorded as Heghgate in 1354.

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Highgate bypass
Mention The secret arch

Highgate tunnel (1809-12)
Not to be confused with the railway tunnel.

History
Previous archways

In 1884, the first cable-hauled tramway in Europe opened between Archway Tavern and Highgate Village up an 1 in 11 gradient up Highgate Hill. This was operated by Steep Grade Tramways and Works Company Ltd. The cars moved y having a gripper attached to a cable that ran in a conduit between the rails. The company over its history faced two closures and was taken over by the London Cable Company in 1909, when the tramway closed for electrification.

Another tramway ran from Archway Tavern to City Bounday (Moorgate).