I came across the above engraving of Hornsey church recently. The precise composition is one I hadn't previously seen and this new perspective made me think anew about what the land in the foreground was. A glebe (also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close) is an area of land within a parish used to support the parish vicar or rector. The glebe lands belonging to St Mary's Church in Hornsey stretched up the hill behind the church to roughly where Church Path connects to Tottenham Lane today, next to the McCafferty's pub (Former Hope and Anchor). They are what we can see, surviving in pastoral use, still in the 1876 engraving.