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2 Charterhouse Hackney
The square contains the
remnants of a medieval Islington
monastery and a school where
John Wesley (see p172) studied. SMITHFIELD &
SPITALFIELDS

THE CITY
Barbican Locator Map
station See Central London Map pp16–17
C A R T H U S I A N S T

9 . Barbican
World War II
C H A R T E R H O U S E S Q U A R E
bombs flattened
this immense
site, which was
B E E C H rebuilt as a housing
S T R E E T development in
the 1960s. It
contains the
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Two of its houses are survivors
of the 1666 Great Fire.
5 St Bartholomew-the-Great
This has the best-preserved medieval
interior of any London church.

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6 . Museum of London
The city’s history is told vividly through
fascinating exhibits.

To St Paul’s station Christ Church tower is all that
remains of one of Wren’s most
splendid churches (1704).

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