Ropemaker Street, EC2M

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Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.



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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.
Honourable Artillery Company Museum The Honourable Artillery Company Museum opened in 1987.
Moorgate Moorgate was one of the gates in the London Wall but was one of the later gates of London, dating from the early 15th century.
Tenter Ground Tenter Ground harks back to the seventeenth century when this patch of land was surrounded by weavers’ houses and workshops and used to wash and stretch their fabrics on ’tenters’ to dry.

NEARBY STREETS
99 Bishopsgate, EC2N 99 Bishopsgate is a commercial skyscraper located on Bishopsgate, a major thoroughfare in the City of London financial district. (City of London)
Addle Street, EC2V Addle Street, there from ancient times, was a victim of the bulldozer after the Second World War (City of London)
Alder Castle House, EC2V Alder Castle House can be found on Noble Street (City of London)
Aldermanbury Square, EC2V At the centre of Saxon London, the aldermen (elder statesmen of City wards) met in a ’bury’ (house) in a time before the Guildhall was built (City of London)
Aldermanbury, EC2V Aldermanbury is the Saxon name for ’Eldermen’ (elder statesmen) and ’bury’ (house) (City of London)
Alderman’s Walk, EC2M Alderman’s Walk was formerly Dashwood’s Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century (Liverpool Street)
Alders Court, EC1Y Ball Court, EC1 was renamed as Alders Court, EC1 in 1936 (City of London)
Alfred Close, EC2Y Alfred Close (Alfred’s Close) was a 1939 renaming of the former Alfred’s Place (Barbican)
Alleyn House, EC1Y Alleyn House is a block on Chequer Street (Clerkenwell)
Alleyne Park, EC2N 100 Bishopsgate is a development of two mixed-use buildings on Bishopsgate in London. (City of London)
Alphabeta Building, EC2A Alphabeta Building is sited on Worship Street (Shoreditch)
Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church (Barbican)
Andrewes House, EC2Y Andrewes House is a block on Fore Street (Barbican)
Appold Street, EC2A Appold Street runs north-south on the City of London side of Liverpool Street station (City of London)
Astrix House, EC2A Astrix House is a block on Holywell Row (Shoreditch)
Australian Avenue, EC2Y Australian Avenue ran north out of The Crescent (Jewin Crescent) to the road formerly known as Barbican (now Beech Street) (Barbican)
Banner House, EC1Y Banner House is a block on Banner Street (Clerkenwell)
Barbican, EC2Y Before becoming part of Beech Street, a road called Barbican had its own presence (Barbican)
Baroda House, EC1Y Baroda House is located on City Road (Clerkenwell)
Bartletts Place, EC2A Bartletts Place was Bartletts Buildings on the 1860s mapping, not appearing before then (City of London)
Basinghall Avenue, EC2V Basinghall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Basinghall Street, EC2V Basinghall Street joins Gresham Street to the south (City of London)
Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2V Bassishaw Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Basterfield House, EC1Y Basterfield House is located on Unnamed Road (City of London)
Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y Bastion Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Bavaria House, EC2A Bavaria House is sited on Appold Street (City of London)
Beech Street, EC2Y Beech Street is the western extension of Chiswell Street (Barbican)
Bells Alley, EC2N Bells Alley is a road in the SW6 postcode area (City of London)
Ben Jonson House, EC1Y Ben Jonson House is sited on Golden Lane (Barbican)
Ben Jonson House, EC2Y Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane (Barbican)
Bishopsgate Churchyard, EC2M Bishopsgate Churchyard is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Liverpool Street)
Blacksea House, EC2A Blacksea House is a block on Wilson Street (Shoreditch)
Blomfield Street, EC2M Charles James Blomfield was an energetic churchman who became Bishop of London in 1828 (City of London)
Bonhill Street, EC2A Bonhill Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Clerkenwell)
Bornhill Street, EC2A Bornhill Street is a location in London (Clerkenwell)
Boston House, EC2M Boston House is a building on New Broad Street (City of London)
Bowater House, EC1Y Bowater House is sited on Fann Street (City of London)
Brackley Street, EC2Y Brackley Street was named after Viscount Brackley - the title given to the eldest sons of the Earl of Bridgewater who owned a townhouse on Bridgewater Square (Barbican)
Bradford Avenue, EC2Y Bradford Avenue was a street of warehouses (Barbican)
Brandon Mews, EC2Y Brandon Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Breton House, EC2Y Breton House is a block on Golden Lane (Barbican)
Brewers Hall Gardens, EC2V Brewers Hall Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Bridgewater Square, EC1Y Bridgewater Square is an historic square near to the Barbican (Barbican)
Britannic House, EC2M Britannic House is a block on Finsbury Circus (City of London)
Broad Street House, EC2M Broad Street House is a block on Old Broad Street (Liverpool Street)
Broad Street Place, EC2M Broad Street Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Broadgate Circle, EC2M Broadgate Circle is situated at the centre of the Broadgate development (City of London)
Broadwalk House, EC2A Broadwalk House is a block on Appold Street (City of London)
Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is a block on Bridgewater Square (Barbican)
Bunhill Row, EC1Y Bunhill Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Chapel Street, EC2Y In 1939, Chapel Street briefly became Chapel Lane (Barbican)
Chequer Street, EC1Y Chequer Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y Cherry Tree Walk is a road in the EC1Y postcode area (Barbican)
Chiswell Street, EC1Y Chiswell Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Christopher Street, EC2A Christopher Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
City Gate House, EC2A City Gate House is a block on Finsbury Square (Clerkenwell)
City Greenyard, EC2Y City Greenyard - or simply Green Yard - was swept away to build the Barbican area (Barbican)
City Place House, EC2V City Place House is a block on Basinghall Street (City of London)
City Tower, EC2V City Tower is a block on Unnamed Road (City of London)
Clifton House, EC2A Clifton House is a block on Holywell Row (Shoreditch)
Clifton Street, EC2A Clifton Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Coleman Street, EC2V Coleman Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Compter Passage, EC2V Compter Passage is a location in London (City of London)
Copthall Avenue, EC2N Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area (City of London)
Copthall Avenue, EC2R Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area (City of London)
Cotton Street, EC2Y Cotton Street was situated off Australian Avenue (Barbican)
Cripplegate Street, EC1Y Cripplegate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Barbican)
Cromwell Tower, EC2Y Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street (Barbican)
Cross Key Court, EC2R After 1939, the new name for Sun Court, Great Swan Alley was Cross Key Court, EC2 (City of London)
Crown Place, EC2A Crown Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Curzon House, EC2A Curzon House is a block on Clifton Street (Shoreditch)
Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y Cuthbert Harrowing House is a block on Fann Street (Barbican)
Cutlers Gardens Arcade, EC2M Cutlers Gardens Arcade is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Liverpool Street)
Dashwood House, EC2M Dashwood House is a block on Old Broad Street (Liverpool Street)
Davies House, EC2A Davies House is a block on Sun Street (Shoreditch)
Defoe House, EC2Y Defoe House is part of the Barbican development, north of Thomas More Garden (Barbican)
Dominion Street, EC2M Dominion Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Drapers Gardens, EC2N Drapers Gardens is a block in Copthall Avenue (City of London)
Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y Dufferin Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Dufferin Street, EC1Y Dufferin Street runs between Bunhill Row and Whitecross Street (Clerkenwell)
Earl Street, EC2A Earl Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
East Street, EC2M East Street was the name of the road leading out of Finsbury Circus (City of London)
Eldon Street, EC2M Eldon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Elephant Yard, EC2Y Elephant Yard was the coaching yard which used to belong to the Elephant Inn, demolished in the 1840s (Barbican)
Epworth Street, EC2A Epworth Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Clerkenwell)
Errol Street, EC1Y Errol Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Exchange Place, EC2M Exchange Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Liverpool Street)
Fann Street, EC1Y Fann Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Barbican)
Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House (Barbican)
Finsbury Avenue, EC2M Finsbury Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M Finsbury Circus Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Finsbury Circus House, EC2M Finsbury Circus House is a block on Eldon Street (City of London)
Finsbury Circus, EC2M Finsbury Circus replaced the last of the open Moorfields in 1812 (City of London)
Finsbury Court, EC2A Finsbury Court was obliterated in a redevelopment programme taking in Finsbury Pavement (Clerkenwell)
Finsbury Pavement, EC2M Finsbury Pavement was the first pavement of firm ground north of the marshy Moorfields (Moorgate)
Finsbury Square, EC2A Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green (Clerkenwell)
Finsbury Street, EC2A Finsbury Street is a road in the EC2Y postcode area (Clerkenwell)
Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y Fore Street Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Fore Street, EC2Y Located near the Barbican Centre in the City of London, Fore Street stretches from Wood Street to Fore Street Avenue, with Moor Lane joining its northern side. (Barbican)
Fortune House, EC1Y Fortune House is a block on Fortune Street (Clerkenwell)
Fortune Street, EC1Y Fortune Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y Gilbert Bridge is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Gilbert House, EC2Y Gilbert House is a block on Gilbert Bridge (Barbican)
Glyn House, EC1Y Glyn House is a block on City Road (Clerkenwell)
Golden Lane, EC1Y Golden Lane connects Old Street and Beech Street (Clerkenwell)
Great Arthur House, EC1Y Great Arthur House is a building on Fann Street (City of London)
Great Swan Alley, EC2R Great Swan Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area (City of London)
Great Winchester Street, EC2N Great Winchester Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area (City of London)
Guildhall Yard, EC2V Guildhall Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Habib House, EC2R Habib House is a block on Moorgate (City of London)
Hackney House, EC2A Hackney House is a block on Curtain Road (Shoreditch)
Heron Tower, EC2N Heron Tower is a block on Bishopsgate (City of London)
Holderness House, EC2A Holderness House is a block on Clifton Street (Shoreditch)
Holywell Row, EC2A Holywell Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Honey Lane, EC2V Honey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Invicta House, EC1Y Invicta House is a block on Banner Street (Clerkenwell)
Jacob’s Well Passage, EC2Y This seems to have been named after a Jacob’s Well sign, which seems to have been a familiar one in the 17th and 18th centuries (Barbican)
Jewin Crescent, EC2Y Jewin Crescent - as The Crescent - existed from the end of the eighteenth century (Barbican)
Jewin Street, EC2Y Jewin Street was a street was lined with warehouses by firms related to the garment trade, including drapery, button, straw hat and sewing machine importers and furriers. (Barbican)
Kayam House, EC2A Kayam House is a block on Paul Street (Shoreditch)
Lackington Street, EC2M Lackington Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area (City of London)
Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y Lamb’s Passage was formerly Great Swordbearers (Sword Bearers) Alley (Clerkenwell)
Langthorn Court, EC2N Langthorn Court is an historic courtyard in the City of London (City of London)
Leonard Circus, EC2A Leonard Circus is a location in London (Shoreditch)
Life Line House, EC2A Life Line House is sited on Clifton Street (Shoreditch)
Little Winchester Street, EC2N Little Winchester Street used to run south off London Wall (City of London)
Liverpool Street, EC2M Liverpool Street commemorates Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Liverpool Street)
London Wall Buildings, EC2M London Wall Buildings are a commercial development (Liverpool Street)
London Wall, EC2M London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (City of London)
Longbow House, EC1Y Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street (Clerkenwell)
Love Lane, EC2V Love Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Lowndes House, EC1Y Lowndes House is located on City Road (Clerkenwell)
Mason’s Avenue, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode (City of London)
Michael House, EC1Y Michael House is a block on Chiswell Street (Clerkenwell)
Milton Court, EC2Y Milton Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Milton Street, EC2Y Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street (Barbican)
Mitre Court, EC2V Mitre Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Monkwell House, EC2Y Monkwell House is a building on Barbican Highwalk (City of London)
Monkwell Square, EC2Y Monkwell Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Moor House, EC2Y Moor House is a block on Fore Street Avenue (City of London)
Moor Place, EC2M Moor Place is the successor street to Short Street (City of London)
Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y Moorfields Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Moorfields, EC2M Moorfields is the successor street to Little Moorfields which dated from the mid eighteenth century (City of London)
Moorgate Hall, EC2M Moorgate Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Moorgate House, EC2A Moorgate House is a block on Dysart Street (Shoreditch)
Moorgate Place, EC2R Moorgate Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area (City of London)
Moorgate, EC2R Moorgate takes its name from a gate in the wall around London and is a rather late-built street within the City of London (City of London)
New Broad Street House, EC2M New Broad Street House is a block on Old Broad Street (City of London)
New Broad Street, EC2M New Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
New Liverpool House, EC2M New Liverpool House can be found on Eldon Street (City of London)
New Union Street, EC2Y New Union Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (City of London)
Newgate Street, EC2V Newgate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Noble Street, EC2V Noble Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Oat Lane, EC2V Oat Lane has been marked on London maps since 1600 and before (City of London)
Octagon Arcade, EC2M Octagon Arcade is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Liverpool Street)
Old Broad Street, EC2M Old Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
One Ropemaker Street, EC2Y One Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (City of London)
Park House, EC2M Park House is a block on Finsbury Circus (City of London)
Paul’s Alley, EC2Y Paul’s Alley ran along the former northern edge of London’s main Jewish cemetary (Barbican)
Peabody Tower, EC1Y Peabody Tower is a block on Golden Lane (Clerkenwell)
Pindar Street, EC2A Pindar Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area (City of London)
Plough Court, EC2Y Plough Court was renamed as part of Barbican in 1939 (Barbican)
Preachers Court, EC1M Mountjoy House is a building on Monkwell Square (Barbican)
Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is a location in London (Clerkenwell)
Red Cross Street, EC2Y Red Cross Street once ran to the junction of Beech Street and Golden Lane (Barbican)
River Plate House, EC2M River Plate House is a block on Finsbury Circus (City of London)
Roman House, EC2Y Roman House is a building on St Alphage Garden (Barbican)
Ropemaker Street, EC2M Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Moorgate)
Roscoe Street, EC1Y Roscoe Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area (Clerkenwell)
Salesforce Tower, EC2N Salesforce Tower is a block on Bishopsgate (City of London)
Salisbury House, EC2M Salisbury House can be found on London Wall (City of London)
Scrutton Street, EC2A Scrutton Street is the eastern extension of Epworth Street (Shoreditch)
Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y Seddon Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Seddon House, EC2Y Seddon House is a block on Aldersgate Street (Barbican)
Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y Shakespeare Tower can be found on Beech Street (Barbican)
Silk Street, EC2Y Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London (City of London)
Snowden Street, EC2A Snowden Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area (Shoreditch)
South Place, EC2M South Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Moorgate)
Speed House, EC2Y Speed House is a block on Speed Highwalk (Barbican)
St Alphage Garden, EC2Y St Alphage Garden is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (City of London)
St Alphage Highwalk, EC2V St Alphage Highwalk is part of the Barbican (City of London)
St Ann’s Lane, EC2V St Ann’s Lane was the name for the west end of Gresham Street until the 1860s (City of London)
St Giles Terrace, EC2Y St Giles Terrace lies alongside St Giles Cripplegate church (Barbican)
St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y St Mary’s Tower is a block on Fortune Street (Clerkenwell)
Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y Stanley Cohen House is a block on Golden Lane (City of London)
Stapleton House, EC2A Stapleton House is a block on Clifton Street (Shoreditch)
Sun Street Passage, EC2M Sun Street Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (Liverpool Street)
Sun Street, EC2M Sun Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Swedbank House, EC2M Swedbank House is a block on New Broad Street (City of London)
Technico House, EC2A Technico House is located on Christopher Street (City of London)
Telegraph Street, EC2R Telegraph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area (City of London)
Templeton House, EC1Y Templeton House is a block on Chiswell Street (Barbican)
The Postern, EC2Y The Postern is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y Thomas More Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Thomas More House, EC2Y Thomas More House is a block on Shaftesbury Place (Barbican)
Three Nun Court, EC2V Three Nun Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area (City of London)
Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N Throgmorton Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area (City of London)
Union Court, EC2N Union Court is an alleyway off of Broad Street (City of London)
Vandy Street, EC2A Vandy Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Victoria House, EC2A Victoria House is a location in London (Shoreditch)
Viscount Street, EC1Y Viscount Street was a new name for Charles Street after 1939 (Barbican)
Wallside, EC2Y Wallside is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Warwick Yard, EC1Y Warwick Yard is a road in the EC1Y postcode area (Clerkenwell)
Well Street, EC2Y Well Street ran from Jewin Street to Nicholl Square, taking its name from Crowder’s Well which, according to Stow, featured a pristine pool of water west of the parsonage (Barbican)
West Street, EC2M West Street led into Finsbury Circus (City of London)
Whitecross Place, EC2M Whitecross Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Whitecross Street, EC1Y Whitecross Street was formerly a longer street in inner London. It now features a street market and a large housing estate (Clerkenwell)
Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y Willoughby Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area (Barbican)
Willoughby House, EC2Y Willoughby House is a building on Willoughby Highwalk (Barbican)
Wilson Street, EC2A Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Wilson Street, EC2M Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area (City of London)
Wood Street, EC2V Wood Street was originally the main north–south route through the Roman Fort, discovered after Second World War bombing. (City of London)
Wood Street, EC2Y The northern section Wood Street lies between London Wall and the Barbican (Barbican)
Wormwood Street, EC2N Wormwood Street refers to the wormwood plant which used to grow on the London Wall and in other areas of wasteland in the City (Liverpool Street)
Worship Mews, EC2A Worship Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)
Worship Street, EC2A Worship Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area (Shoreditch)


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