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Camomile Street
City, 104, Bishopsgate. (EC3) There is no indication as to the origin of the name. It suggests that the land immediately within the wall was waste and unbuilt on, and was covered with that hardy herb (camomile) which springs up so readily on unoccupied land.
The houses on the north side are on the site of the old Wall of London, and in excavations made for the foundations of warehouses in the street a bastion and other portions of the wall have been found, partly of Roman construction. (Harben's Dictionary of London, p. 120)
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