Eastcheap
Eastcheap is a road in the City of London. Eastcheap is part of an east -west connection through the City of London and continues in the east of the Great Tower Street, in the west of Cannon Street. In Eastcheap, there are comparatively many historic buildings, so that form Eastcheap and adjacent streets Eastcheap Conservation Area.
History
The first records of the road exist from the year 1100. Eastcheap is named after market (formerly cheap or chepe in English ). In medieval times, butcher shops were on both sides of the street. At the Eastcheap the main London market for meat and fish took place. In the street Westcheap, today Cheapside, the market for the western city took place. The medieval street was made to the west, so that the church of St Clement's Eastcheap no longer lies on the road today. On the other hand, the Eastcheap was the Little Tower Street slammed in the 19th century in the East.
Literary known the road was William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, in which the Boar's Head Pub at the Eastcheap is the local pub of the anti-hero Falstaff. Probably the play was also performed in Shakespeare's time in the pub itself.
Its present form was Eastcheap after the construction of the Metropolitan Line. The south side of the street has been transformed profoundly in the years 1882-1884 in order to build the metro line can.
Buildings
Located on the north side of the road without stopping numerous Victorian buildings from the 1860s, including several large warehouses. The south side was rebuilt in the 1880s, and from this period can still be found numerous buildings on the street.
Eastcheap Conservation Area
The Eastcheap Conservation Area exists since 1976, and was several times (1981, 1991 and 2007 ) expanded. Since 2007, covers the central and eastern part of Eastcheap, the entire Lovat Lane and parts of Philpot Lane, Rood Lane, Botulph Lane, the street St Mary -at -Hill, Grace Church Lane and Church of St Dunstan -in-the - East.