An East End walking tour. Come for a stroll around one of the most interesting and lively districts of London as we explore the history of Shoreditch and Hoxton in London's East End. Located just to the east of the City walls, this area is bisected by the Roman roads of Ermine Street and Old Street. In the Elizabethan period it became a place of entertainment where James Burbage built his first theatre and staged plays by William Shakespeare before they moved to Southwark. The Curtain Theatre opened nearby close to the site of the Holywell Priory and the Shoreditch Holy Well.
Our walk takes us from Curtain Road over Shoreditch High Street into Old Nichol which because one of London's most notorious rookeries in the 19th Century. This led to the London County Council demolishing the poor housing and building one of the first council housing projects at the Boundary Estate with the beautiful Arnold Circus at its heart. We go looking for the Leon Kossoff Cherry tree planted to commemorate the great artist who grew up in the area.
We pass through St Leonards churchyard before walking into Hoxton Square. This was a late-17th Century development inspired by Bloomsbury Square built on the fields where poet and playwright Ben Jonson killed the actor Gabriel Spencer in a duel. The final stop on this East End walking tour is the site of the Hoxton medicinal spring in Charles Square.
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