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| | St. Monica's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The first are the highly suspicious links between the names: St. Monica was the mother of St. Augustine,* and the Roman road that became the Edgware Road became known as Watling Steet in Saxon times (so that Watling Street might be regarded as the progenator of the Edgware Road). |
 | | The original Roman road ran to the south of London (through what is now Southwark, all the way from Dover), and forded the Thames at Westminster, where it turned north to become the future Edgware Road. |
 | | Once a bridge had been built futher downstream, the road crossed over (about where the famous "London Bridge" was), and ran first north, then west, passing by the site now occupied by St Paul's, and continuing along the line of the present Holborn Viaduct, Holborn, and Oxford Street, where it rejoined the present Edgware Road. |
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