City Road City Road City Road or The City Road is a road that runs through central London. The northwestern extremity of the road is at Angel where it forms a continuation of Pentonville Road. Pentonville Road itself is the modern name for London's first bypass, the New Road from Paddington to Islington, which was constructed in 1756. The City Road was built in 1761 as a continuation of that route to the City of London. From Angel, City Road runs roughly south-east and downhill past the City Road Basin of Regent's Canal and Moorfields Eye Hospital, after which it bears closer
Angel, London Street is Angel Underground station on the London Underground's Northern line (the station entrance was in a building on the corner of City Road and Torrens Street until the station was rebuilt in the 1990s). The Islington Tunnel of the Regent's Canal runs underneath the area from east to west. Angel, London Angel is a locality of Islington in Central and North London, England, within the London Borough of Islington. It is located north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road at a busy transport intersection. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major