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unusual facts about History of London


Cornhill, London

The street contains two of the City churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren: St. Michael, Cornhill, on the site of the Roman forum of Londinium, and St Peter upon Cornhill, reputed to occupy the oldest Christianised site in London.



see also

Patience Ward

the house is shown in Ogilby and Morgan's ‘Map of London,’ 1677, and in the plan of Walbrook and Dowgate wards in Noorthouck's ‘New History of London’ (p. 612).

Samuel Wale

Among them were the illustrations to the ‘History of England,’ 1746–7; ‘The Compleat Angler,’ 1759; ‘London and its Environs described,’ 1761; ‘Ethic Tales and Fables,’ William Wilkie's ‘Fables,’ 1768 (eighteen plates); Henry Chamberlain's ‘History of London,’ 1770; and Oliver Goldsmith's ‘Traveller,’ 1774.