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The road links green lanes a105 in the west to stoke newington high street the a10, formerly ermine street, in the east. An awardwinning independent bookshop, established on stoke newington high street since 1987. A rector was appointed in to the church of stoke newington, which was a peculiar of the dean and chapter of st. Found out via twitter that the bookshop was selling copies of arsenal the complete record which were. Stoke newington town hall church street, london n16. Thank you for your continued support in these difficult times. We won the lbcindependent newspaper best bookshop in london award in 2004 and were a finalist in the 2006 nibbie best independent bookshop in britain award.