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Hackney Maps

The Hackney Society has assembled a set of interactive maps to help members explore Hackney’s buildings, history, and heritage. Whether you’re researching a local building, planning a walk, or checking whether a site is listed or protected, these maps are a good place to start. Click any marker for details, and use the layers button (top right of each map) to overlay ward boundaries, conservation areas, or OS grid squares. If you are using a mobile phone, you will find that the link following each map will give you a full screen map and you can zoom to the location you are at.

Historic England Listings

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This map shows all 652 buildings and sites in Hackney that are officially protected by Historic England (updated January 2026). Listed status means these buildings are legally protected from demolition or unsympathetic alteration.

Useful for: checking whether a building near you is listed; researching a particular street or area before commenting on a planning application; or simply discovering hidden architectural gems in your neighbourhood. Click any marker for the Historic England entry and, usually, a photograph.

Source information is from the Historic England list which can be visited to check for any changes or updates.

London Borough of Hackney Local LIstings

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This map shows 513 buildings given Local Listing status by the London Borough of Hackney (January 2026). The Hackney Website has a page on Locally listed buildings which allows you to download the lastest version of the listings in PDF format and has a map that you can use to find buildings. This is a more accurate way of locating local list buildings than our map, as quite a few of our markers point to a street rather than a building.

Local listing is a step below Historic England’s national protection, but it still gives a building some recognition and weight in planning decisions — it signals that the council considers it worth preserving.

Marker colour indicates approximate age: darker blue = older buildings, lighter/paler = more modern.

Useful for: finding locally significant buildings that aren’t nationally listed; supporting or challenging planning applications; exploring which parts of Hackney have the most heritage assets.

Love Local Landmarks

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In the early 2000s, Hackney Society members collected and mapped 696 local landmarks — buildings, spaces, and features that residents felt were important to Hackney’s character. This map preserves that community-sourced record, archived from the original 2011 website.

Useful for: seeing how residents valued their built environment before many recent changes; identifying buildings that may now have received formal protection; historical research and comparison with current listings.

Please note: this data is from 2011 and some entries may refer to buildings that have since been demolished, altered, or upgraded to a formal listing. Location pins are not always precise. The original photographs collected by members have unfortunately been lost.

Photos from Geograph

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Geograph.org.uk is a volunteer-run website where photographers contribute images georeferenced to specific locations across Britain. This map shows 6,709 photographs covering Hackney (as of February 2026), plotted at the spot where each photo was taken (which is not the same as the building appearing in the photo).

Useful for: seeing what a street or building looked like in the recent past; finding photographs of specific locations for research or writing; spotting changes in the streetscape over time. Many images date from the 2000s and 2010s and capture scenes that have since changed significantly.

Photos are free to reuse with attribution under a Creative Commons licence.

Wikipedia Entries in Hackney

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This map plots 293 Wikipedia articles that are linked to locations within the London Borough of Hackney (February 2026). Click any marker to go directly to the Wikipedia article; many also show a photograph.

Useful for: discovering notable people, buildings, events and places connected to specific locations; getting a quick overview of what’s considered significant in a given area; identifying gaps — if something important in your neighbourhood doesn’t have a Wikipedia article, perhaps you could write one.

Note: some markers appear at the centres of ward or constituency boundaries rather than a specific building.

Old maps of Hackney

Several excellent external resources let you explore Hackney as it appeared on maps from the 18th century onwards:

Layers of London — overlay historical maps of Hackney on a modern base map, using scans provided by Hackney Archives. Good for seeing how streets, fields, and buildings changed over time.
National Library of Scotland map finder — an outstanding collection of Ordnance Survey and other historic maps; you can view Hackney at many different dates and scales.
Hackney Archives — holds a large collection of original maps and plans, including a dedicated map cabinet available to visitors. Covers Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Shoreditch.

Other maps

We’re working on additional maps that will plot Hackney’s cinemas, theatres, pubs, parks, modern buildings, and plaques — both surviving and lost. We’re in the process of obtaining permission from data holders, but watch this space. If you’d like to help with this project, get in touch.