Leadenhall Street is a street in the City of London, formerly part of the A11. It runs between Cornhill in the west and Aldgate in the east. The Aldgate Pump is located at the junction with Aldgate. During much of the 18th and 19th centuries its name was synonymous with the East India Company which had its heaquarters there.
The nearest London Underground station is Aldgate (Circle and Metropolitan lines) and the closest mainline railway station is Fenchurch Street.
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“And in these dark cells,
packed street after street,
souls live, hideous yet
O disfigured, defaced,
with no trace of the beauty
men once held so light.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)