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The line of Cowcross and Turnmill Streets marks the south and west boundary of the precincts of the Hospitaller priory of St John of Jerusalem. The area was radically changed by construction of the Metropolitan Line and Farringdon Road. In there Elizabethan era it was "the most disreputable street in London", notorious as a centre of crime and prostitution.
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34 Turnmill Street is one of the oldest streets in London. Originally named Trylmyl Street, but renamed “Turnmill” because it was close to the River Fleet, where a number of mills had been built. In the Elizabethan era, (under the name Turnbull Street) it became a byword for depravity, and was regularly referred to in the works of playwrights of the era – “the most disreputable street in London”, notorious as a centre of crime and prostitution.
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