Wormwood Street

Wormwood Street

Wormwood Street is a street in the City of London which connects the London Wall thoroughfare with Bishopsgate.The name refers to a plant called wormwood which used to grow on London Wall and in other areas of waste land in the City [Weinreb and Hibbert 1983: 973] . 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, but has since been extensively redeveloped after suffering damage in the Bishopsgate Bombing of 1993. Archaeological investigations by MoLAS, undertaken during the reconstruction, discovered a coin in the remains of London wall that caused the date of construction to be reappraised to preceding AD180 [ [http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba33/ba33news.html#wall "London's wall "older than was thought"] British Archeology 33 April 1998] .

The closest tube stations are:

*Bank
*Liverpool Street
*Moorgate
*Aldgate

References

Bibliography

Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) "Wormwood Street" in "The London Encyclopedia". Macmillan: London and Basingstoke.


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