Editing Shoreditch (section)

==Geography==
[[File:1755 Stow Shoreditch.jpg|thumb|left|Shoreditch and surrounding area, 1755. The north-eastern part of the map is part of the parish of Shoreditch]]
Shoreditch covers a wide area, but its historic heart lies south of Old Street, around [[Shoreditch High Street]] and [[Shoreditch Church]]. The districts of [[Hoxton]] and [[Haggerston]] have been historically part of Shoreditch since the medieval period and occupy the north-west and north-east of Shoreditch respectively; however, their extent has never been formally defined.

Although Shoreditch has been consistently defined, perceptions have blurred in recent years; something that became possible after the [[Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch]] amalgamated with some of its neighbours to become the southern part of the [[London Borough of Hackney]] in 1965.

The location of the former [[Shoreditch tube station]] (closed 2006), 400 metres outside Shoreditch proper, in nearby [[Bethnal Green]], [[Tower Hamlets]], influenced this shift. Its replacement, [[Shoreditch High Street station]], straddles the borough boundary.

More significant has been the gentrification of the Shoreditch area since the millennium, leading to a marked increase in the area's prestige, which has led businesses in the [[Bethnal Green]] and [[Spitalfields]] areas of [[Tower Hamlets]] to include the name Shoreditch in their company's name and marketing material. This is also seen to a lesser extent in the [[St Luke's, London|St Luke's]] area of the [[London Borough of Islington]].