Editing Shoreditch (section)

===Origins===
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[[File:Shoreditch church.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Shoreditch church]]
Though now part of [[Inner London]], Shoreditch was previously an extramural suburb of the City of London, centred on [[Shoreditch Church]] at the old crossroads where [[Shoreditch High Street]] and [[Kingsland Road]] are crossed by [[Old Street]] and [[Hackney Road]].

Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road are a small sector of the Roman [[Ermine Street]] and modern [[A10 road (Great Britain)|A10]]. Known also as the Old North Road, it was a major coaching route to the north, exiting the City at [[Bishopsgate]]. The east–west course of Old Street–Hackney Road was also probably originally a Roman Road, connecting [[Calleva Atrebatum|Silchester]] with [[Camulodunum|Colchester]], bypassing the City of London to the south.<ref>Sugden n.d.</ref>

Shoreditch Church (officially known as [[St Leonard's, Shoreditch]]) is of ancient origin. It is featured in the famous line "when I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch", from the English nursery rhyme "[[Oranges and Lemons]]".

Shoreditch was the site of a house of canonesses, the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Holywell Priory]] (named after a Holy Well on the site), from the 12th century until its [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution]] in 1539. This priory was located between Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road to east and west, and Batemans Row and Holywell Lane to north and south. Nothing remains of it today.<ref>Wood 2003.</ref>