Cornhill and Lombard Street, from the Poultry

Cornhill is so-called because it was anciently a market for corn (grain). The "picturesque view presented here to the eye of the passenger, by a combination of architectural splendour, in the Tower of the Royal Exchange, the beautiful tower of St Michael, Cornhill, and the numerous spires of churches in the surrounding neighbourhood." Lombard street was so called because it was once the residence of Lombards (northern Italians), the great money lenders of medieval times, until Queen Elizabeth I expelled them from the country.