ROUND LONDON

Sightseeing Tour

WELCOME TO LONDON1. The most interesting streets

2. The history of these streets

3. It is interesting to know

Streets of London

• Victoria Еmbankment

• Waterloo Road• Old Kent Road

• Queen street

• Union street

Victoria Еmbankment• The Victoria

Embankment's construction started in 1865. Victoria Embankment is in the London area of Theatreland. Theatreland: London's main theatre district contains around 40 stages and is located in the heart of The West End.

Waterloo Road • Waterloo Road is a

road straddling Lambeth and Southwark, London, England

• The road is designated as the A301, which continues across Waterloo Bridge

Old Kent Road

• The Old Kent Road is a road in South East London, England and forms part of Watling Street. The street is famous as the equal cheapest property on the London Monopoly board and as the only one in South London.

• Chaucer's pilgrims travelled along this route from London and Southwark on their way to Canterbury.

Queen street• Queen Street is a

street in the City of London, which runs from Upper Thames Street north to Cheapside

Union street• Union Street is a major

street in the London Borough of Southwark

• It was made for "making a carriage way from the … High Street, through the Greyhound Inn, into Queen Street, and for improving the passage from thence into Gravel Lane, leading towards the Black Friars Bridge Road, in the parish of Christ Church. In 1813, Queen Street and Duke Street were renamed Union Street

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