Wormwood Street
Wormwood Street is a short street in the City of London which connects London Wall with Bishopsgate and Camomile Street. It is a dual carriageway which forms part of the A1211 road running from Barbican to Whitechapel.
The name refers to a plant called wormwood which used to grow on London Wall and in other areas of wasteland in the City.[1] Wormwood Street's course follows the line of a sector of the original City Wall, the wall forming the rear of the buildings on the north side of the street. It escaped destruction in the Great Fire of 1666, but has since been extensively redeveloped after suffering damage in an IRA bombing in 1993.
Archaeological investigations by the Museum of London Archaeology Service, undertaken during the reconstruction, discovered a coin in the remains of London Wall that caused the date of construction to be reappraised to preceding the year 180.[2]
The nearest London Underground stations are Bank, Liverpool Street and Moorgate. Liverpool Street is also a National Rail station with mainline services to East Anglia and Stansted airport.
[edit] References
- ^ Weinreb and Hibbert 1983: 973
- ^ London's wall "older than was thought" British Archeology 33 April 1998
[edit] Bibliography
Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) "Wormwood Street" in The London Encyclopedia. Macmillan: London and Basingstoke.
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Coordinates: 51°30′59″N 0°04′59″W / 51.51639°N 0.08306°W
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