Goswell Road

In the north it splits Clerkenwell from Finsbury;[1] the south was sometimes used as a demarcator but all but the southern corporate/legal/financial end in the modern era forms the heart of the highly developed mixed-use district Barbican.

London Bus routes serving the street: Some sources claim the road was named after the estate or garden written variously 'Goswelle' or 'Goderell' of (medieval noble) Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk;[3] others single out "Gos-wel" to be the meaningful phonemes and so posit a very local "God's Well" (a sacred well).

Some (notably Olympic medallist Peter Radford)[7] contend the first successful four-minute mile was run by James Parrott on 9 May 1770.

Old Street has a c. 11 foot downward fall (but note intermittent gentle undulations),[9] and the record is not recognised by modern sporting bodies.

A large parachute bomb squarely hit the building, causing majority-collapse and blocking access to the damaged basement.