Pepys Street, EC3N
Tower Hill - a place of executions
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Pepys Street links Seething Lane in the west to Cooper’s Row in the east.

When the Port of London Authority Building was built in 1923, Colchester Street was extended to Seething Lane and renamed after the diarist Samuel Pepys, who lived in the street during the Great Fire of London.

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