For some reason or other you've found yourself needing to get to Paul Sladen's place in Seven Sisters, London. Hopefully this document should help you get there! Seven Sisters is about 6 miles to the North of the centre of London and about half-way between Finsbury Park and Tottenham. The address is:
Paul Sladen
52 North Grove
Seven Sisters
London
N15 5QP
020 8211 8085
I recommend using Multi-Map on the Postcode. The following links will take you to maps showing the surrounding area. The first link allows you to zoom around the location and see how it fits in with the rest of the Universe, [er, London]... The second link is better for printing because you get a bigger map. The third map actually shows you something useful—the complete route from the Tube station on one page:
Seven Sisters Tube is the closest; approximately 12minutes walk away. Despite being in Zone 3 it is only three stops on the Victoria Underground Line [Turquoise] from St. Pancras/Kings Cross. It's probably the speediest underground journey I know. If you stay on the Victoria Line going further south, then after Kings Cross/St. Pancras goes to Euston, Victoria and Brixton.
Seven Sisters Tube has two exits, one at each end of the platforms. Make sure you aim for the South Exit one, the best way of ensuring this is to walk to the back of the train when arriving from the centre of London. To make sure you remember, get into the last carriage when you board the tube train. Upon leaving the platform at Seven Sisters, you should then walk up some steps, up an escalator and through the barriers (off to your right is the passage up to Seven Sisters railway station served by WAGN trains).
NOTE: 2004/2005; the exit you want (south exit) has been closed while they doing engineering work on the esculators. Leave by the other exit then follow the signs back to the overground station ("Seven Sisters BR/WAGN/ONE") which is the exit you expected to come out of! Then continue as follows:
Walk out of the station and you should get to a main road, Seven Sisters Road with a bridge crossing over it just to your right (→). Walk under the bridge and keep going for about a quater of a mile. You will walk past Wickes on your Left but keep walking until you get to a strange looking junction that has traffic lights and a bridge going over it. This is St. Ann's Road, you should Turn Right (→) onto St. Ann's Road (there is a little squat grocery shop on the corner).
Continue along St. Ann's Road for about quater of a mile until you walk past a Church (St. Ann's!) and are walking past a school, both to your Right. Immediately after the school there is a mini-roundabout in a tee-junction that used to be a cross-roads. North Grove is off to your Right (→), the exit at the junction which has been blocked off.
Walk down North Grove for 150 yards. Number 52 is on your Right (East-side for those looking at maps). Easily identified:
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If you don't fancy buying a ticket to Zone 3; Manor House Tube is about 20 minutes walk away and is in Zone 2. Finsbury Park, also in Zone 2, is about 30minutes away and has no barriers, which makes it slightly easier if you have a bicycle or something else.
Seven Sisters has WAGN trains from Liverpool Street. Other stations within a reasonable radius are Harringay Green Lanes, Finsbury Park, South Tottenham and Tottenham Hale may also be useful to you if you know where you are going from.
Not really sure. But mind the one-way system and blocked-off roads around this area, you can end up getting stuck trying to go the wrong way over a single-lane hump-back bridge! Parking, if you do have to do it, is on-street. The good news is that there isn't passing traffic.
Brompton parking space is provided! Space for full-size bicycles is also available.
Lots of buses come even closer than the tube, including several long-distance buses, figuring out where they go is a pain. For starters, you could try investigating:
Asking for Seven Sisters, Green Lanes, St. Ann's Hospital, "The Ladder" or South Tottenham may or may not help your cause!
This method of transport is less environmentally-friendly and its use should be considered. London has a few airports; Heathrow (22km W, LHR/EGLL), catch Piccadilly Tube line from Heathrow and change at Finsbury Park onto the Victoria. Stansted (65km NE, STN/EGSS), catch the Stansted Express and change at Tottenham Hale to the Victoria Line, or walk (30min). Gatwick (48km S, LGW/EGKK), Gatwick Express or Thameslink to London Victoria, then the Victoria Tube line. Luton (56km N, LTN/EGGW), Thameslink to St Pancras, then Victoria line. If you're flying into London City (10km E, LCY/EGLC), just ask your personal stretch-limo driver to find the way.
Eurostar is my favourite way of leaving London. Travel from Any Dutch station, Any Belgian station, Lille or Paris. Arrives at Waterloo International, take the Jubilee Tube Line and change at Green Park onto the Victoria Line. Additionally, from The Netherlands, the London Express/Amsterdam Express is a Boat-Train service cruising Rotterdam→Harwich and arriving by train at London Liverpool Street, tickets are valid from Any Dutch Station.
Most long-distance bus/coach (National Express) and international (Eurolines) services stop at London Victoria Coach station. This is about a 10-15minute walk from London Victoria Railway station, where you can then catch the Victoria Underground line to Seven Sisters.
Unfortunately the nearest canal is closed for navigation and un-passable. I suggest mooring at Kings-Cross Marina on the Regent's Canal and catching the tube to Seven Sisters.
Updated 2005-02-07