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  • The clock face, from the inside of the tower
  • Clock Mechanism
  • View from the top of the tower

Caledonian Park: Clock Tower Tours

J.B. Bunning

place
Cally Clock Tower Centre, Market Road, N7 9HF
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Toilets, Architect on site

Travel Information

subway
Nearest tube: Caledonian Road
train
Nearest train: Caledonian Road & Barnsbury
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Bus routes: 274, 390, 17, 91, 259
Opened in 1855 as centrepiece of the Metropolitan Cattle Market. The clock tower offers magnificent views over London. The clock mechanism was made by John Moore of Clerkenwell. The tower has been renovated with help from the Heritage Fund.

Design

Original design
J.B. Bunning, 1850
Type
Miscellaneous, Industrial
Period
Victorian

  • History

    Opened in 1855 as the centrepiece of the former Metropolitan Cattle Market, the seven storey Clock Tower offers magnificent views over London. The tower and the market’s impressive railings – built to withstand a bull stampede – are Grade II listed.

    Set in the middle of the 7.4 hectare (18.27 acre) Caledonian Park (originally named Copenhagen Fields) which has a rich history – used variously as a place for sports and leisure, and as a cattle market and popular flea market.

    It was also a place of political dissent and demonstration. Around 100,000 people gathered in the spot to march on Parliament in 1834 in support of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

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