The Angel, Islington The Angel, Islington The Angel, Islington is a historic landmark and a series of buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England. The land originally belonged to the Clerkenwell Priory and has had various properties built on it since the 16th century. The site was bisected by the New Road, which opened in 1756, and properties on the site have been rebuilt several times up to the 20th century. The corner site gave its name to Angel tube station, opened in 1901, and the surrounding Angel area of London. The
Angel, London Street is Angel Underground station on the London Underground's Northern line (the station entrance was in a building on the corner of City Road and Torrens Street until the station was rebuilt in the 1990s). The Islington Tunnel of the Regent's Canal runs underneath the area from east to west. Angel, London Angel is a locality of Islington in Central and North London, England, within the London Borough of Islington. It is located north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road at a busy transport intersection. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major