VICTORIA EMBANKMENT

Victoria Embankment: translation

   West from Biackiriars Bridge to Westminster Bridge (P.O. Directory).

   The eastern end only, as far as the termination of the Temple Gardens, is in Farringdon Ward Without, within the City boundary.

   Project first under consideration 1860. Carried out under the Thames Embankment (North) Act, 1862. Embankment to be made with a road through, 100 ft. wide. Construction of railroad authorised by the Metropolitan District Railway Act, 1864, to be carried out in connection with the embankment scheme. Completed 1870. Thirty-seven and a quarter acres reclaimed from the river. Cost over £1,000,000. Paid for out of the coal and wine duties.

   Named in honour of Queen Victoria, in whose reign the work was planned and executed.