Broadway, SW1H
Broadway SW1
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Broadway - formerly the location of the headquarters of both London Transport and the Metropolitan Police.

Morgan’s map of 1682 shows the beginnings of the modern street pattern in this part of Westminster.

On that map, Tothill Street and Petty France formed the principal route west from the Abbey, with Strutton Ground leading southwards towards open countryside. To the north of Strutton Ground, the wide street that is now Broadway was the site of a haymarket, formed in the time of James I until about 1720.

Broadway’s coming into being being as a name has an unclear history being simply a wide space between Petty France and Tothill Street. It is marked as ’The Broadway’ on Rocque’s mid-eighteenth century map.

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