Inscription
Historic Site
City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736.
London Borough of Islington
Site: City Pest House (1 memorial)
EC1, Bath Street
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City Pest House
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City Pest House
From Islington:The Pest House was built in 1594, in the fields where Bath Str...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
City Pest House
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Islington Council
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
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