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unusual facts about Allhallows, Bread Street



Allhallows College

: This article is about Allhallows College in Devon, England, formerly called Allhallows School. For All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland, see All Hallows College. For All Hallows' School in Brisbane, Australia, see All Hallows' School.

Allhallows, Kent

Situated in the northernmost part of Kent, and covering an area of 23.99 kmĀ², the parish is bounded on the north side by the River Thames, and in the east by the course of Yantlet creek, now silted up.

Under these proposals, called the Thames Hub, new high-speed rail lines would be built connecting Kent and Europe with North London, and the North East and North West of England.

In the 1930s, the Southern Railway, in an attempt to develop the area around the estuary as a holiday resort, opened a short branch from the Hundred of Hoo Railway branch line to Grain.

Lazarus Seaman

In 1642 he was presented by William Laud to the rectory of Allhallows, Bread Street; Laud made this presentation out of courtesy to Northumberland, and complained that, nonetheless, Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, had written to pressure him, commanding him in the name of the House of Lords to give the benefice to Seaman.

Queen Victoria Street, London

Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is a street in the City of London which runs east by north from its junction with New Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment in Castle Baynard ward, along a section that divides the wards of Queenhithe and Bread Street, then lastly through the middle of Cordwainer ward, until it reaches Mansion House Street at Bank junction.


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