Crouch Hill runs between Crouch End and Stroud Green straddling the boroughs of Haringey and Islington.
Crouch Hill is not to be confused with Crouch End Hill which runs between Crouch End and Hornsey Rise. These two roads meet at a Y junction in Crouch End and together they constitute the southern access to Crouch End Broadway.
Crouch Hill was an upper-class rural road until the arrival of the railway in 1868 and the location for superior villas in the first half of the 19th century.
Park Chapel was built in 1855, the Gothic ragstone chapel being extended in stages as the local Congregational community expanded.
After the 1870s, stimulated by the railway, suburban building began.
Between the wars, Crouch Hill saw extensive rebuilding along its southern half. By the arrival of the 21st century, many of the larger houses have been subdivided into flats.
In 1974, rooms in a house on the Islington side of Crouch Hill were rented by IRA members who were subsequently arrested at the end of the Balcombe Street Siege.
The street has a railway station of the same name on the Islington (south) slope of the hill.