Sometimes you come across a remnant of something from earlier London. It could be the Roman walls in Aldgate or the amphitheatre under the Guildhall. This is the York House Watergate by the Strand.
The watergate would have been a grand entrance, by boat, to the river Thames. It was built in 1626 for George Villiers the Duke of Buckingham. Sadly both his grand home and the water are now long gone and the watergate stands in Embankment Gardens, a reminder of when the River, not the road, was the centre of the city.
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