Queenhithe

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Queenhithe (Greater London)
Queenhithe
Queenhithe
Location of Queenhithe in Greater London
The banks of the Thames at Queenhithe from Bankside . Looking upstream on the left. The Queenhithe Dock is on the right.

Queenhithe is a small constituency in the City of London and lies on the Thames , which is also its southern limit. It is located south of St Paul's Cathedral . The Millennium Bridge leads to the city center in Queenhithe.

Queenhithe Dock is the name of an old harbor basin that is no longer in use today. A small street along this harbor basin also bears this name.

The population of this constituency was 280 in 2009.

history

The name of the constituency is derived from “Queens Dock”, or “Queen's Quay”, probably the name of a Roman port basin or small port, which was known in Anglo-Saxon times as “Aedereshyd”, later as “Ethelred's Hyhte”. The harbor basin existed at the time when the King of Wessex , Alfred the Great , was rebuilding downtown London (around 886 AD). The name was only changed to "Queenhithe" when Matilda , daughter of Heinrich I , were awarded customs duties on the goods landed there. The Queenhithe Dock still exists today; but it has long since ceased to be in use and is very slack because it is located in the estuary of the Thames. Da Queenshithe Dock was used to bring maize into London and was also used for the fur trade until the 20th century. However, since the harbor basin was above London Bridge , sailing ships in particular could not enter there from the sea.

The bombing of World War II destroyed roughly two-thirds of the buildings in the constituency.

Construction of the Millennium Bridge began in 1998 and it opened in 2000; previously there was no bridge to the south bank of the Thames. The construction of the bridge, which provided a direct pedestrian link from the South Bank (at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art ) to St. Paul's Cathedral, dramatically increased the flow of tourists and city workers walking through the neighborhood.

Facilities

Upper Thames Street, a major thoroughfare (A3211)
Salvation Army Headquarters

In the constituency is the City of London School (all-day school for boys) and the Painters and Stainers Hall (formerly a painter's guild, now a welfare society). The Salvation Army's International Headquarters is located on the corner of Queen Victoria Street and Peter's Hill (the latter is the street that leads from Millennium Bridge to St. Paul's Cathedral) and has recently been renovated.

The constituency has a complex urban topography , largely because of development since World War II. Upper Thames Street runs beneath Peter's Hill and some large post-war buildings such as the Millennium Bridge House and Queensbridge House (which will be remodeled soon). There are still a number of old streets and avenues, some of which cross the main traffic axis with pedestrian bridges.

The Welsh church of St Benet Paul's Wharf is in the northwest of the constituency. Two previous churches - St. Michael Queenhithe and St. Mary Somerset - were also in the constituency.

The constituency is one of the smaller residential areas in the otherwise commercial City of London. The Sir John Lyon House and Globe View are recently built blocks of flats.

Riverside path

A public footpath runs all along the banks of the Thames in the City of London area, with the exception of a short stretch in Queenhithe. At the moment, pedestrians have to walk along High Timber Street as the riverside path between Broken Wharf and Queenhithe Street is not yet available.

Constituency boundaries

The current constituency boundary runs from the Thames to the west, north across White Hall (west of the Municipal School), then east across Queen Victoria Street and down Lambeth Hill. The border then runs a short distance along Upper Thames Street, then turns north up Huggin Hill, where it includes Painters Hall, and then turns south towards the river, where it also includes all of Queensbridge House. On its way to the river, the border crosses Upper Thames Street and runs along Queenhithe Street, including the old harbor basin.

The constituency of Queenhithe is bordered by the constituencies of Castle Baynard in the west, Bread Street in the north, Vintry in the east and the London Borough of Southwark in the south (on the other side of the Thames).

politics

Queenhithe is one of 25 constituencies in the City of London, each one alderman ( Alderman chooses) that the Court of Aldermen and Commoners sitting (the equivalent of the councilor (Counciler) in the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation ). Only those who have the status of Freedom of the City of London can be elected.

The constituency's current Alderman is Senior Man Gordon Haines.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data from the 25 constituencies in London. City of London Corporation ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8 kB)
  2. ^ MIC Borer: The City of London-a history . D. McKay Co. New York (1978). ISBN 0094618801