Editing Homerton (section)

===Origins===
Archaeological excavations at Link Street exposed a building dating to the 11th or 12th century suggesting that Homerton existed before it was first recorded in 1343.<ref>[http://www.molas.org.uk/pages/siteSummariesDetailsAll.asp?year=summaries1997&borough=Hackney MoLAS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312112604/http://www.molas.org.uk/pages/siteSummariesDetailsAll.asp?year=summaries1997&borough=Hackney |date=12 March 2007 }} (TQ 3534 8504 summary of archaeological investigation at Link St) accessed: 20 October 2006</ref> The hamlet of Homerton (Humberton or Hummerton, named for the farm of a woman named Hunburh) developed for about a half-mile along the road on the north side of the now buried and lost [[Hackney Brook]], within the vale formed by the brook. This led from the hamlet of [[Lower Clapton|Clopton]]<!--sic, that was its name-->, passing near the [[St Augustine's Tower, Hackney|church of St Augustine]] at Hackney, then across the marshes and the crossing points of both the [[River Lea]], and its tributary, Hackney Brook. By 1605 Homerton was the most populous part of the [[Hackney (parish)|Parish of Hackney]], becoming a separate parish in 1846.<ref name=Brit>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22703 ''Hackney: Homerton and Hackney Wick'', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 51-59] accessed: 14 January 2008</ref>