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Like its near neighbour Wormwood Street, this is named after the wild flowers that grew in the wasteland around the London Wall in the 12th and 13thCenturies. No houses were to be built with 16 feet of the wall for defensive purposes. Camomile was used in remedies for fever and are said to be good for making sedative and digestive infusions that also combat flatulence. Camomile tea with dittany, scabious and pennyroyal was a preferred medieval remedy against poison. The road was first mentioned in 1677.
