Stoke Newington & Dalston Dog Walking & Pet Sitting

This is where Helen, our local Stoke Newington dog walker, is based, but she also covers the nearby areas of Dalston and N16 postcodes. Helen will do Pet Sitting or Dog Walking and she loves all types of pets.

If you would like to contact your Stoke Newington and Dalston dog walker, contact Helen directly at stokenewington@london-pet-sitting.com

For one small district, Stoke Newington has a lot of open space. To its north, there is the extensive West Resevoir, now a non-working facility, but open for leisure and surrounded by greenspace, at the entrance to which is the architecturally bizarre Castle Climbing Centre, once the main Water Board pumping station. It was originally designed by William Chadwell Mylne to look like a towering Scottish castle and is now much-loved in the area. When I first moved to the area I spent a couple of weeks wondering what on earth that fairy-tale castle was (!) in the distance as I strolled across Clissold Park. >Clissold Park is a gentle sweeping parkland just south of the West Reservoir, complete with a small menagerie, aviary and Clissold Mansion, a Grade II listed building built in the 1790s. It's being given a face lift at the moment so I can't wait to see the results. In the meantime, there's still plenty of green space, ponds, spreading trees and spring daffodils to enjoy. Just to the east we find Abney Park Cemetery, one of the most splendid and enlightened of Victorian London cemeteries. It is now a nature reserve, a role that it was in many ways originally intended for, as it was set up as an arboretum. It's lovely to walk here in the cool shade and contemplate things.

Today Stoke Newington is one of the most exciting communities to live in. It's a centre for creative new enterprise and many local businesses and residents are championing sustainable living, healthy fresh eating, reusing & recycling in fashion and interiors. People are proud to live in a beautiful corner of London with a strong community spirit. I certainly love Stokey!

Stoke Newington started life as a small settlement on the old route from London to Cambridge. Being well outside the city boundaries on one of the straightest and best maintained of Roman roads, it was a retreat for the wealthy and powerful who could travel easily into London. It was also a place of refuge for dissidents who could operate here without government interference.

Many of Cromwell's generals had estates in Stoke Newington after the end of the Civil War in 1649. Manufacturers commuted into London from here leaving their families to enjoy the clean air of the parish whose name comes from the meaning - "New town in the wood". For this reason, the area has retained some beautiful and grand architecture and has been a largely prosperous district. The parish has undergone many shifts of boundaries and jurisdiction over time. It was recorded as part of the Ossulstone hundred in the Domesday Book of 1086, a subdivision of the county of Middlesex. Six hundred years later it was included in the new Finsbury division and the east part of the Tower division until in 1889 both divisions were finally incorporated into the County of London. The parish itself was absorbed into the London Borough of Hackney in 1965.

Stoke Newington, centred around Stoke Newington Church Street, has nevertheless retained its own distinct 'London village' character. It also has large Orthodox Jewish and Turkish populations as well as a long term Irish population.

Stokey has been home to writers; Edgar Allen-Poe, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad; musicians; Marc Bolan, Paloma Faith; comedians; Alexei Sayle, Stewart Lee as well as numerous famed slavery abolitionists, botanists, politicians and scientists.
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Our Stoke Newington pet-sitter, Helen, who roughly covers the N16 postcode. If you'd like to find out about dog walking and pet sitting in the area please contact her directly on stokenewington@london-pet-sitting.com