The junction at Cowcross Street marks the place where for centuries cattle were driven daily to London's Smithfield market. Nearby Cock Lane is another name linked to the meat and poultry trade centred here since the 12th century - although some accounts attribute its origin to it being the only licensed place for sex work in the medieval city.
Soon these will be among the last vestiges of a site in Farringdon that was central to London life, feeding people, dispensing justice as a place of public execution and even, in a shameful chapter from the early 19th century, providing a place where a man could sell his wife.
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