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| Length | 0.2 mi (0.32 km) |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Postal code | EC3 |
| Nearest train station |     Liverpool Street |
| North end | Outwich Street/Bishopsgate |
| South end | St. Botolph Street |
Houndsditch is a street running through parts of the Portsoken and Bishopsgate Without wards of the City of London; areas which are also a part of the East End of London.[1] The road follows the line of the outside edge of the ditch which once ran outside the London Wall. The road took its name from the section of ditch between Bishopsgate and Aldgate. The name may derive from the widespread dumping of rubbish in this stretch of ditch; relating to the dumping of dead dogs, or the scavenging of the waste by feral dogs.
- ^ The line of the former wall is usually taken as the inner edge of the East End, but in its absence the Encyclopaedia Britannica uses Houndsditch