London’s historical churches
Tucked between Mayfair to the South and Regent’s Park to the North, Marylebone is one of London’s most elegant areas. Today its beautiful, well-preserved Georgian and Victorian streets are lined with chic independent shops, cafes and restaurants. But what is the history behind it and where does the name come from? A Riverside Hamlet Marylebone […]
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Walking around London is a journey through the centuries, the old side by side with the new. There is one particular corner of the City where this is particularly in evidence. You can find an especially interesting section of the old city wall, but also the remains of a medieval priory, a beautiful hidden garden
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London’s churches, packed with centuries worth of stories and historical artefacts, are always worth a visit if you have the time. Their names also often tell a fascinating story and certainly is the case for St Margaret Pattens. St Margaret Pattens can be found on Eastcheap, in the financial district, towered over today by 20
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On Bishopsgate, in the City of London, you will find London’s smallest church, St Ethelburga’s. Towered over today by the Gherkin, not only is it London’s smallest church, it can also be considered both London’s luckiest and unluckiest church. Today it is not an active church in the traditional sense but carries out a different
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Austin Friars is a street in London, just to the North East of the Bank of England. In terms of its shape it looks a bit like a wonky ‘T’ and has a couple of little alleyways shooting off from it such as Pinner’s Passage and Austin Friars Passage. You enter through an archway on
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