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Bow Lane

A medieval alley in the City with a Wren church at each end and two old pubs off it.

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Looking down the lane from Cheapside. Photo by Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the lanes that survived 1666 in plan if not in fabric: it runs where it ran in the Middle Ages, four yards wide, from Cheapside down to Cannon Street. St Mary-le-Bow, whose bells define a Cockney, stands at the top; St Mary Aldermary, Wren's Gothic experiment, at the bottom. Halfway down, Watling Street crosses it and Ye Olde Watling stands on the corner, rebuilt after the fire by Wren's own workmen. Groveland Court, a courtyard off the lane, has Williamson's Tavern at the end of it on the site of a Lord Mayor's house.

Where
Bow Lane, EC4M
Nearest station
Mansion House · 2 min walk

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