Leadenhall Street is a principal street of the The City of London forms the historic and financial centre of Greater London. It is often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile (from its area), but never simply as London; although the City was for centuries synonymous with London, the latter term is now reserved...
City of London.
It runs from Cornhill to Aldgate was a gateway through London Wall to the City of London, located by the East End. It is close to Whitechapel. In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published here after her owners could not find...
Aldgate. Historically it has been the location of Lloyd's of London and the The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favor trade privileges in India. The Royal Charter effectively gave the newly created British East...
East India Company. The The London Metal Exchange or LME is the worlds largest market in cash and futures in base and other metals. It offers hedging, worldwide reference pricing and storage for physical delivery of trades. It is located at 56 Leadenhall Street, London. The London Metal Market and Exchange Company was...
London Metal Exchange is located at number 56.
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Leadenhall Market is a covered market in the City of London. The market dates back to the 14th century. Most of the food retailers have moved on from this market and it is principally a shopping arcade for city workers. The ornate roof structure and cobbled floors of the current...
Leadenhall Market
Thus, Oxford street, London, becomes the Bayswater road, High street, Holland Park avenue, Goldhawke road and finally the Oxford road to the westward, and High Holborn, Holborn viaduct, Newgate street, Cheapside, the Poultry, Cornhill and Leadenhallstreet to the eastward.
Next to the numbering and lettering of streets, a fashion apparently set up by Major Pierre-Charles L’Enfant’s plans for Washington, the most noticeable feature of American street nomenclature, as opposed to that of England, is the extensive use of such designations as avenue, boulevard, drive and speedway.
The principal street of a small town, in America, is almost always Main street; in England it is as invariably High street, usually with the definite article before High.
LeadenhallStreet EC3 lies in the heart of the City of London's Square Mile, with Gracechurch Street and Bishopsgate to the west and the Minories EC3 and Aldgate EC3 to the east.
LeadenhallStreet is home to the distinctive Lloyds Building, which was designed by architect Richard Rogers and opened in 1986.
LeadenhallStreet is close to a number of mainline and London Underground stations including, Bank Underground (300m west) Aldgate Underground Station (200m east) and Monument (400m south).
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