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Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3N

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Place Name This was the backyard to the busy inn of the same name which was first recorded here sometime…

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Rangoon Street, EC3N

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Place Name In 1824 the East India Company took control of Myanmar (previously Burma), a province of India at the…

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Hammett Street, EC3N

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Place Name Named after its 18thCentury builder, Benjamin Hammett, a haberdasher and businessman who served as an MP. He laid…

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Crosswall, EC3N

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Place Name Descriptive, as this crosses the boundary of the medieval City wall between the Tower and Aldgate. The remains…

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Crescent, EC3N

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Place Name This GeorgianĀ street is thought to be the first crescent-shaped street in London. It was built in the 1770sĀ and…

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Cooper’s Row, EC3N

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Place Name It was previously known as Woodruffe Lane but changed in the latter half of the 18thCentury. It was…

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Byward Street, EC3N

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Place Name This road, constructed by the Metropolitan and District Railway Companies between 1889 and 1906, was originally the eastern…

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America Square, EC3N

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Place Name Built between 1768 and 1774, shortly before the signing of the America treaty of independence, it was laid…

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Hartshorn Alley, EC3M

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Place Name This was Angel Alley in the mid-18thCentury but by the end of the century was known as either…

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French Ordinary Court, EC3M

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Place Name This was the site of an ordinary, these were cheap eating places usually with a fixed price, which…

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