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87 Whitechapel High Street – a 3-storey 3-bay shop-house, built c1955 with red brick facing and triplet metal windows with thin concrete frames. [38] The ground floor is an amusement arcade. 88 Whitechapel High Street in 2020. 88 Whitechapel High Street – a 4-storey 3-bay shop and office, built in 1838, in stuccoed stock brick. The building ...
The road has been an important thoroughfare and coaching route for centuries. Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road are shown on John Rocque's Map of London, 1746, both marked as "White Chapel". [6] On John Cary's "Environs of London" of 1795 (published in his New Itinerary of 1798) there are properties on both sides of the road. [7]
Whitechapel is located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross. The district is primarily built around Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road, which extend from the City of London boundary to just east of Whitechapel station.
The street featured in the 16th-century Woodcut map of London as a partially developed crossroad leading north from the city's most easterly edge, and by the 17th century was being developed northwards from the Barres (now Whitechapel High Street) as a result of expanding population. [3]
Commercial Street is an arterial road in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Hackney that runs north to south from Shoreditch High Street to Whitechapel High Street through Spitalfields. The road is a section of the A1202 London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone.
It becomes Whitechapel High Street (containing Aldgate East Underground station), again part of the Aldgate one-way system. The A11 passes through Whitechapel, past Whitechapel station and the Royal London Hospital. The A11 is named Mile End Road where it runs through Mile End; the Green Bridge carries Mile End Park over the A11 / Mile End Road
For all or most of its time, the place of worship stood where Adler Street meets White Church Lane and Whitechapel High Street. The original form was the white chapel or, more formally, the chapel of St Mary, Stepney. [3] The white chapel stood by 1282 at some distance outside the bars at Aldgate, to which the high street leads. [3]
Aldgate East (/ ˈ ɔː l d ɡ eɪ t ˈ iː s t /) is a London Underground station on Whitechapel High Street in Whitechapel, in London, England.It takes its name from the City of London ward of Aldgate, the station lying to the east of the ward (and the City).