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'Finsbury' is a place in the south of the London Borough of Islington. The name is first recorded as ''Vinisbir'' (1231) and means "manor of a man called Finn."^[1]
Finsbury was a division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. There is a Finsbury Park some miles further north, within the division, but outside the area latterly considered to be Finsbury, which was the core of the former Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury.
The name as a geographical term of reference has partly been superseded in recent years by Clerkenwell and St Luke's. "Finsbury" is used in building names such as ''Finsbury Tower'', the Finsbury Estate and the ''Finsbury Library'' and by local newspaper, the ''Clerkenwell & Finsbury Advertiser''. [1]
Finsbury is the home of the Sadler's Wells contemporary dance theatre.
Nearest places:

★ Clerkenwell

★ St Pancras

★ Bloomsbury

★ Holborn

★ Pentonville

★ Kings Cross

★ Islington
Nearest tube stations:

★ Angel tube station

★ Barbican tube station

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Finsbury, Islington council tax bands and charges

See also

★ Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury

★ Finsbury division

References

1. Mills, D., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names,'' (2000)