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  1. Inner borough of N central Greater London;
  2. population (1984) 187,900 features Hackney
  3. Downs and Hackney Marsh, formerly the haunt
  4. of highwaymen, now a leisure area; includes
  5. Shoreditch, site of England's first theatre
  6. (The Theatre) in 1576; Hoxton, with the
  7. Geffrye Museum of the domestic arts; Stoke
  8. Newington, where the writer Daniel Defoe once
  9. lived. The horse-drawn hackney carriage is so
  10. named because horses were bred in Hackney in
  11. the 14th century.
  12.