Both New Bridge Street and the Victoria Embankment are relatively late additions to the City’s largely medieval street pattern. New Bridge Street was created in 1764, essentially following the course of and covering over the Fleet Ditch, leading to the… Read More »New Bridge Street & Victoria Embankment
The locations named above comprise the area bordered to the west by the Temple, to the north by Fleet Street, to the east by New Bridge Street (built over the Fleet River) and to the south by the Thames. ‘Bridewell’… Read More »Bridewell & Whitefriars
Cornhill is one of the streets that fan out from the Bank intersection ‒ the City’s of London’s financial heart. Running roughly west to east from Bank Junction, it meets the intersection (anciently know as ‘carfax’) between Gracechurch Street, Bishopsgate… Read More »Cornhill
Bishopsgate is the name of a major City street as well as one of its wards and derives from gate that once stood upon it. Bishopsgate was one of the seven double gates that afforded passage through the medieval walls.… Read More »Bishopsgate
Together with Ludgate Hill, to the east, and the Strand, to the West, Fleet Street forms the main thoroughfare that connected the cities of London and Westminster. Indeed, in earlier times, the Fleet Street name probably covered the whole way… Read More »Fleet Street
Lombard Street is perhaps the single most iconic address in the City of London, synonymous with banking and providing the title for Walter Bagehot’s seminal 1873 work on the money market. Bagehot wrote that “The briefest and truest way of… Read More »Lombard Street
Well into the late 18th century, this northern extremity of the City contained ‘moor fields’ (marshy, open land). After being drained and provided with paved paths, this open space became used for everything from laundering to military drill to raucous… Read More »Finsbury Circus & Moorfields
The uninterrupted street that bears the name Poultry at its eastern end and Cheapside at the western one marks the border between Cheap and Cordwainer wards, which in the Middle Ages were the wealthiest commercial districts of the City. Together… Read More »Cheapside & Poultry
Aldgate, Fenchurch Street (East) and Lloyd’s Avenue. Aldgate is probably one of the four original gates in the City’s Roman walls, opening onto the road to Colchester. The toponymy is of unsure origin‒ Stow’s reference to Auld-gate (old gate) is… Read More »Aldgate & Fenchurch Street
Aldersgate Ward takes its name from one of the four earliest gates in the City walls, probably going back to Roman times. Among the many parishes it contained, St. Martin Le Grand was the principal one until the great fire… Read More »Aldersgate