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There is also a forest gate village. Now I like forest Gate and used to live a stones throw from it but it still has drug dealers and people stabbing each other over arguments regarding postcodes and dealing turf and criminally reckless driving by young men in powerful German cars. A village it ain't.
These things are all artificial constructs by estate agents and snobbish residents who wished they could afford Islington
princeperch
Interesting, IIRC Brackenbury "village" (I despise any area in London being called a fucking village) was one of the first places in the area where house prices started going mental.