White Hart Lane (ward) at Tottenham Cemetery. The football club in the ward is the Haringey Borough F.C.. Although also named White Hart Lane, the White Hart Lane railway station and the former home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., the White Hart Lane stadium (since replaced by Tottenham Hotspur Stadium), are in the neighbouring ward Northumberland Park. Areas around White hart Lane include: White Hart Lane (ward) White Hart Lane is an electoral ward in Tottenham, London Borough of Haringey, London. The ward is represented by three Labour councillors. The ward covers an area of 1.7 sq. km. The ward is named after the road
English public school football games Matthew, a Winchester scholar from 1643 to 1647. He describes how "...we may play quoits, or hand-ball, or bat-and-ball, or football; these games are innocent and lawful. ..". That football at winchester was "innocent and lawful" at this time is very noteworthy. This is strongly supportive of the fact that by the mid-seventeenth century football and other ball games in English public schools had been tamed. "Nugae Etonenses" (1766) by T. Frankland also mentions the "Football Fields" at Eton. A more detailed description of football is given in Francis Willughby's Book of Sports, written in about 1660. This account is