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was built in the 1860s. Until 1872, it consisted of three distinct streets: Old Fish Street in the eastern portion, Little Knightrider Street in the middle portion and Great Knightrider Street in the western portion.
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is unrecorded and if it existed it ought to have meant either a horseman serving a knight or a knightly horseman." He suggests that the original name was "
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the term "rider" was synonymous with "knight", so people may have thought that "Rider Street" meant "Knight's Street" and prefixed it with
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pub on the street dates back to the 1660s, when it was known as the Horn; perhaps inevitably,
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that the street was named after "Knights well armed and mounted at the
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built in 1666–5 and demolished in 1867 to make way for
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View east along the eastern end of Knightrider Street
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King's Head Tavern, Mark Lane – Knyghttes Hill
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City of London
St Paul's Cathedral
German Church
Queen Victoria Street
District line
London Underground
Doctors' Commons
St Mary Magdelen
Thomas Linacre
Royal College of Physicians

Queen Victoria Street
The Centre Page
David Hasselhoff
Knight Rider
antiquarian
John Stow
Tower Royal
Ludgate
Smithfield
tourney
joust
Middle English

Admiralty Court
Weinreb, Ben
Hibbert, Christopher
The London Encyclopaedia
ISBN

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