Old Street, EC1Y
Old Street roundel
Old Street runs west to east from Goswell Road in Clerkenwell to a crossroads in Shoreditch.


Old Street was already old in 1200 when it was marked as Ealdestrate around that year in about 1200. It lies on the route of an old Roman or possibly pre-Roman track connecting Silchester and Colchester, skirting around the walls of Londinium.

At the east end of Old Street there is a notable deviation of the line of the street as it joins the old Roman Road north to York.

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