City Road

For the road in Sydney, see City Road, Sydney.

The Eagle pub on the City Road, mentioned in the Nursery rhyme Pop goes the Weasel

City Road is a road in central London, usually referred to by Londoners as "the City Road".

At its western extremity it starts at the Angel, Islington, as the continuation of Pentonville Road and continues roughly south-east, up an unusually (for London) long and steep hill, till it passes Moorfields Eye Hospital, when it bears closer to south, and has a junction with Old Street at a large roundabout. After Old Street it continues south, continuing past Bunhill Fields and the Honourable Artillery Company, then in quick succession turns into Finsbury Square, Finsbury Pavement, then Moorgate, the latter beginning at the border with the City of London.

The part of the road north of Old Street is on the London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone. The ringroad continues east along Old Street. Most of the road is in the London Borough of Islington although the stretch from Wharf Road down to the Old Street roundabout is the border between Islington and Hackney so the two sides are in different boroughs.

Nearby London Underground stations are Angel, Old Street and Moorgate. The disused City Road tube station was on City Road itself.

London Bus routes serving the length of City Road include 43, 205, 214, 394.

The road is mentioned in the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel.

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