{{Short description|Street in London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox street | name = Mansell Street | native_name = | marker_image = | image = File:Bus heading northwards up Mansell Street - geograph.org.uk - 1008833.jpg | caption = Bus heading northwards up Mansell Street | other_name = | former_names = | postal_code = {{postcode|E|1}} | metro_system=Tube | metro ={{rail-interchange|london|DLR}} | addresses = | length_m = | length_ft = | length_mi = | length_km = | length_ref = | width = | location =City of London, Tower Hamlets, London | client = | maint = | coordinates ={{Coord|51|30|52.1|N|0|4|26.12|W|scale:1563_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | direction_a =North | terminus_a =Aldgate | direction_b =South | terminus_b =East Smithfield | junction = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date =17th Century | completion_date = 17th Century | inauguration_date = | demolition_date = | north = | south = | west = | east = }} '''Mansell Street''' is a street in Central London, which is part of the London Inner Ring Road. For most of its length from the north, this street marks the boundary between the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. However, the southernmost part is entirely in Tower Hamlets.
==History== [[File:Goodman's fields on Roque's map 1746.png|thumb|right|Detail from John Rocque's Map of London, 1746]] Mansell Street was named after a relative of William Leman, whose great-uncle, John Leman had bought Goodman's Fields earlier in the seventeenth century.<ref name="rcpath">{{cite web|title=Alie Street Blog Post – July 2015|url=https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/news/alie-street-blog-post-july-2015.html|website=www.rcpath.org|publisher=Royal College of Pathologists|accessdate=19 March 2017}}</ref> Alie Street ran along the western side, with Leman Street to the east, Prescot Street to the south, and Alie Street to the North. These new streets were developed in the late seventeenth century while Goodman's Fields was used as a tenterground.<ref name="Marldon">{{cite web|title=Archaeology at 31-33 Prescot Street & 99 Mansell Street|url=http://www.marldon.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Archaeology-at-PH99.pdf|website=marldon.net|publisher=Marldon|accessdate=19 March 2017}}</ref>
== Mansell Street estate== This estate was built in 1977 by the Guinness Trust.<ref name="GP">{{cite web|title=Mansell Street, City of London - The Guinness Partnership|url=http://www.guinnesspartnership.com/case-study/mansell-street-city-london/|website=The Guinness Partnership|accessdate=20 March 2017}}</ref> It consists of 194 homes and in 2019 there were plans for its redevelopment.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Ben |title=Mansell Street Estate residents must have final say |url=https://www.citymatters.london/mansell-street-estate-residents-must-final-say |access-date=9 September 2022 |work=City Matters |date=11 June 2019}}</ref>
==See also== *R v Incedal
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Streets in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets