Stoke Newington is an area occupying the north-west part of the London Borough of Hackney in north-east London, England. It is 5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington the ancient parish.
The historic core on Stoke Newington Church Street retains the distinct London village character which led Nikolaus Pevsner to write in 1953 that he found it hard to see the district as being in London at all.