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drovers trail via Hackney

The route to Bishopsgate can still be seen clearly on a current map, wending its way fairly directly via roads and footpaths from Mare Street Narroway down to Virginia Road which, prior redevelopment, joined Shoreditch High Street. We couldn't resist drawing it on a map. The route to Cheapside would have carried on and entered the City at Bishops Gate. The route to Smithfield is less obvious, but there is a stone bench there that refers to the drovers.

2018: Spitalfields Life walked what they call the Black Path, but they started it way up at the junction of Forest Road with Hoe Street, pretty close to the North Circular. The route from there to where Lea Bridge Road crosses The Lea (what else?) is not so clear to see but the route from the River Lea down to join up with our line at Mare Street, via Powerscroft Road, can be seen on the map.

2025: In a lovely Londonist piece about how maps can reveal history, this drovers trail is one of the examples.

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drovers trail via Hackney

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Greengrocers and sheep

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J. Collingbridge

J. Collingbridge

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
William Harris

William Harris

Butcher, active 1897.

Person, Commerce

2 memorials
Gaston Berlemont

Gaston Berlemont

Publican. Born in the Middlesex Hospital. Took over The French House from his Belgian father and ran it until he retired on 1989. The French House is a pub and dining room at 49 Dean Street which d...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Belgium

1 memorial
Lord Ritchie of Dundee

Lord Ritchie of Dundee

Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial