Byward Street
The Byward Street is a short main street in the City of London . The busy extension of Lower Thames Street leads northwest of the Tower of London past All Hallows-by-the-Tower and Knollys House . It is named after the Byward Tower in the fortress of the Tower of London.
Byward Street is part of the inner city ring of London. It lies on the route that leads traffic from the City of London to Tower Bridge . Byward Street was built in 1882/1883. It connected Great Tower Street with Trinity Square and was built at the same time as the Metropolitan Railway and Tower Hill underground station . It has also been connected to Lower Thames Street since the 1960s and has since been part of the busy east-west route along the banks of the Thames .
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the women's and men's marathon course ran on Byward Street.
literature
- Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner: London 1, The city of London, 1997, London: Penguin. ISBN 0140710922
- Byward Street: In: Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (Eds.): The London Enyclopadia. Macmillan, London 1983 ISBN 0-333-57688-8 , p. 118