White Hart Lane railway station White Hart Lane railway station White Hart Lane is a London Overground station on the Lea Valley lines located in Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and . It is in Travelcard zone 3. The station is close to Bruce Castle, at which the annual Tottenham Carnival is held, usually in mid-June, and to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the new home ground of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club that replaced White Hart Lane. White Hart Lane was originally a stop on the Stoke Newington &
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