Hackney was a
parish in the
historic county of
Middlesex. The parish church of
St John-at-Hackney was built in 1789, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to
St Augustine (pulled down in 1798). The
original tower of that church was retained to hold the bells until the new church could be strengthened; the bells were finally removed to the new St John's in 1854. See details of other, more modern, churches within the original parish boundaries below.