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Chiswell Street is in the London Borough of Islington. It includes several buildings listed by Historic England.^[1]

The street, in St Luke's, Islington, runs east-west and forms part of the B100 road. At the west end it becomes Beech Street, with Silk Street running from the south of that junction, and Whitecross Street heading north. At its east end it meets Finsbury Square.

The western junction marks the boundary of the City of London with the London Borough of Islington: Whitecross Street and Chiswell Street (north and east) are in Islington, while Beech Street and Silk Street (west and south) are in the City.

The southern block between Silk Street and Milton Street (once Grub Street) is occupied by the Grade II-listed Whitbread Brewery building. In 1750, Samuel Whitbread consolidated production from two smaller breweries, the Goat Brewhouse, where porter was produced, and a brewery in Brick Lane used to produce pale ale and amber ale, on a much larger site. Considerable expansion followed, and beer was brewed here for 225 years, until Whitbread Brewery closed in 1976.^[2]

Part of the complex is now The Brewery, a conference and events venue, and part of it the Montcalm London City Hotel.

The Jugged Hare pub on the corner with Silk Street is also Grade II listed.^[3]

William Caslon's Caslon Type Foundry was based on Chiswell Street for almost exactly two hundred years.^[4]

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