Pentonville

Pentonville is an area of north-central London in the London Borough of Islington, centred on the Pentonville Road. The area is named after Henry Penton, who developed a number of streets in the 1770s in what was open countryside adjacent to the New Road. Pentonville was part of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell, and was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury by the London Government Act 1899. It has been part of the London Borough of Islington since 1965. Nearby places include Islington, St. Pancras and Finsbury. The closest tube station is Angel. Pentonville is John Stuart Mill's birthplace (20 May 1806). In 1902 Lenin and his wife lived just off Pentonville Rd, it was at this time that he first met his fellow exile...