Shepherdess Walk is a park in Hoxton, in the modern borough of Hackney, UK. It was originally a footpath and later became a pleasure garden with a pub in the 18th century.
Shakspeare Walk was a street in Shadwell, in the vicinity of Old Gravel Lane. Its location was in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets (London, England). The spelling of the street name differs slightly from the spelling of William Shakespeare's.
Shadwell is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, UK. It gained parish status in 1669 when Thomas Neale, a project-manager and politician, built a waterworks on large ponds in the area and developed the waterfront so that Shadwell became a maritime hamlet. In 1801, the waterworks were sold to the London Dock Company and later the East London Waterwork Company in 1808. It became the site of the London Docks and in the nineteenth century was a dangerous area associated with slums, prostitution, and opium dens.
Seven Dials is an area in the St Giles district of London, in the Covent Garden area of the modern borough of Camden (London, England). It is special for the seven converging streets at a roundabout, with a column at the centre with six sundials. In the 19th century, the area was the slum housing rookery of St. Giles.
