Hugh Myddelton - Memorials

Memorials

There is a memorial to Myddelton on Islington Green. Clerkenwell streets, not far from the Round Pond, the original southern end of the New River, and locations and institutions (some closed) named after him include Myddelton Square and Myddelton Passage; Hugh Myddelton Primary School in Myddelton Street; Hugh Myddelton Secondary school (which closed in the mid 1960s in Bowling Green Lane Islington); and Myddelton House on Pentonville Road, central office of Citizens Advice. Myddelton Avenue, parallel to Brownswood Road and the site of one of the New River Reservoirs, also takes its name from him. At the northern end of the New River, Myddelton Road in Ware is situated close to the source of the river. Myddelton Road in Bowes Park crosses the New River at a point where it goes underground between there and the Hornsey water treatment works, where there is another Myddelton Road off Hornsey High Street. Bounded by the former course along the valley of Turkey Brook, Myddelton House at Bulls Cross, Enfield (now the headquarters of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority) was also named in his honour; it was built by Henry Carrington Bowles (formerly a print and map maker of St Paul's Churchyard) whose wife, Anne Garnault, was a member of a Huguenot family with a controlling interest in the New River Company. On an island in the New River at Great Amwell a stone memorial is dedicated to Myddelton. There is a Myddleton Arms on New North Road in Canonbury, curiously with that spelling.