London Car Hire Highbury

Car Hire – Highbury, London

The Car Hire Company not only offers a van, minibus and car hire service we also offer to deliver our vehicles directly to your door. You don’t need to worry about having to go to a location you are not familiar with as we do all the work for you and save you time. We also save even more time by offering to pick up the vehicle when you are finished with it. We typically deliver anywhere inside the M25 but we can go further upon request.

Highbury Local Information

Highbury is a suburb located in the London Borough of Islington and it is here that the home of Arsenal Football Club used to be – Arsenal Stadium – but now it resides at nearby Ashburton Grove. The old stadium will be demolished to make way for residential units. Use your car hire to travel the areas and see where the new and old stadiums are.

Highbury Manor was built in 1272, and it is believed that the site on which it stands used to be a Roman garrison summer camp – the tiles unearthed in 1781 when the new Highbury House was being built, have since been lost. The original Highbury Manor was built by the Lord Prior of the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem (otherwise known as the Knights Hospitallers in England), after being given the land by the owner.

In 1381, Jack Straw led a gang of rioters to destroy the house, as they were ‘offended by the wealth and haughtiness’ of the Priory. The Lord Prior at the time hid for a time in the Tower of London but was found and beheaded – and Jack Straw used the house as a makeshift headquarters. Consequently, the house became known for the next 500 years as Jack Straw’s Castle, and fell into disrepair. The new house was built in 1781 and in 1894 it became a school. In 1938 the house was demolished and a block of flats put on the site.

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