Highbury sits in the north of the London Borough of Islington, a pleasantly leafy part of the capital known for its wide streets, Victorian and Edwardian terraces and the borough’s largest open space, Highbury Fields. It’s well connected by public transport - notably Highbury & Islington station and nearby Drayton Park - which helps make it popular with commuters and young families.
The area carries a strong local identity from its sporting and social history: the Art Deco home of Arsenal in Highbury was converted into residential units now known as Highbury Square, while older memories of the eighteenth‑century pleasure gardens at Highbury Barn survive in street names and community lore. Today Highbury mixes prosperous, gentrified streets with pockets of social housing, independent shops, cafés and a generally active local civic life typical of Islington.