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    Ludgate Hill is a street and surrounding area, on a small hill in the City of London, England. The street passes through the former site of Ludgate, a...
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    demolished in 1760. The name survives in Ludgate Hill, an eastward continuation of Fleet Street, Ludgate Circus and Ludgate Square. According to legend, recorded...
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    Ludgate Hill was a railway station in the City of London that was opened on 1 June 1865 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR) as its City terminus...
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    Ludgate Circus is a road junction in the City of London where Farringdon Street/New Bridge Street (the A201) crosses Fleet Street/Ludgate Hill. (Ludgate...
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    St Martin, Ludgate, also known as St Martin within Ludgate, is an Anglican church on Ludgate Hill in the ward of Farringdon, in the City of London. The...
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    Albert de Courville (1936) East of Ludgate Hill, directed by Manning Haynes (1937, based on the play East of Ludgate Hill) De Spooktrein, directed by Karel...
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    opened at Ludgate Hill on 1 June 1865 (closed 3 March 1929). Snow Hill tunnel opened on 1 January 1866, enabling trains from Ludgate Hill to reach the...
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    the western end of Ludgate Hill and in the adjacent junction of Ludgate Circus were raised several feet. Southern end of Snow Hill tunnel in 1953, on...
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    High Holborn and Chancery Lane. Two small but notable hills are within the historic core, Ludgate Hill to the west and Cornhill to the east. Between them...
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  • East of Ludgate Hill is a 1937 British drama film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Hal Gordon, Aubrey Mallalieu and Nancy O'Neil. It was a quota...
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    Hill station to Knights Hill Junction, on the LBSCR three miles north of Streatham Junction. The LCDR connection gave direct access to Ludgate Hill,...
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    increased usage of the nearby Ludgate Hill station. It was originally a through station, with services continuing through the Snow Hill Tunnel to Farringdon and...
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  • and/or spelt Mountfitchet's or Mountfiquit's) was a Norman fortress on Ludgate Hill in London, between where St Paul's Cathedral and City Thameslink railway...
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    Paul, this building was perhaps the fourth such church at this site on Ludgate Hill, going back to the 7th century. Work on the cathedral began after a fire...
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    way to the plaza. The square is near the top of a modest rise known as Ludgate Hill, formerly one of the two highest points in the City of London. It is...
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    long-closed Ludgate Hill station, over Ludgate Hill to Holborn Viaduct was abandoned and demolished. The replacement route under Ludgate Hill was opened...
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    that Popular meeting. It was first held at the London Coffee House, on Ludgate Hill, but the room being found too small, it was removed to the Crown and...
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    replaced by Ludgate Hill on 1 June 1865. A further station, Holborn Viaduct, opened on 2 March 1874 and the LC&DR line ran via the Snow Hill tunnel to a...
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    where the line connected to other railway lines, which gave access to Ludgate Hill in the City of London, as well as to Waterloo. When the main line was...
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    London railway station within the City of London, with entrances on Ludgate Hill and Holborn Viaduct. The station is on the Thameslink route between Blackfriars...
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    east to Moorgate and Snow Hill tunnel was built to join the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) City Branch at Ludgate Hill. In 1868 a second pair of...
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    cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. Its dedication in honour...
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    Publishing, Inc., 1990 "The music of the Star-spangled banner from Ludgate Hill to Capitol Hill". Retrieved 26 February 2018. Martin J. Manning, Herbert Romerstein...
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  • hundred metres south to be between the tidal Thames and the west of Ludgate Hill, a modest rise, but the highest in the city proper, in about 1276. Edward...
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    Religion, Geography, History and Literature. London: Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill. p. 294. Retrieved 19 September 2021. Chakravarti 2007. www.wisdomlib...
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    London, capital of Roman Britain, was established on two hills, now known as Cornhill and Ludgate Hill. These provided a firm base for a trading centre at...
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    English & Amoy Hokkien). Amoy & London: A. A. Marcal and Trubner & Co. 57 Ludgate Hill. p. 287.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) Macgowan...
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    Tyburn (redirect from Tyburn hill)
    (Charing Cross), along Fleet Street and over the Fleet Bridge, climbing Ludgate Hill (by gravitational pressure) to a public conduit at Cheapside. Water was...
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    the Britons lived on Cornhill to the east, while the Saxons lived on Ludgate Hill to the west. Another theory is that it was so named because it ran through...
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  • including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710. According to Kerry Downes, "there is considerable...
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