In message , Annabel Smyth
writes
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 at 14:43:28, Tom Anderson
wrote:

what about Seven Sisters? i know that's a road, a roundabout and a
station, but where does the name come from (the Pleiades, i guess, but
how?).

No, I think it was after a line of seven trees (The Seven Sisters) that
once upon a time lined the street.
That's right. They lined the road heading towards what is now Finsbury
Park.

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