Goswell Road

Goswell Road is a road in the south of the London Borough of Islington. It runs north from the border of the City of London through Clerkenwell, crossing Old Street to Angel.

Notable places along the road include the main campus of City University to the west and the Headquarters of DB Schenker Rail (UK) at 310 Goswell Road.

London Bus routes 4 and 56 serve Goswell Road.

There is dispute over the origins of the name, with some sources claiming the road was named after a nearby garden called 'Goswelle' or 'Goderell' which belonged to Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk, whilst others state it derives from "God's Well", and the traditional pagan practice of well-worship. Until 1864 named Goswell Street, as refererred in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers (in the novel, the protagonist Samuel Pickwick actually lodged there with Mrs Bardell).

It is mostly occupied by offices and shops, and by the main campus of City University London. It also contains the central library of the Society of Genealogists, one of London's most important reference collections, the Headquarters of DB Schenker Rail (UK) at 310 Goswell Road and the UK office of the International Medical Corps.

The New River originally passed along Goswell Road before turning to terminate at New River Head on Rosebery Avenue. The course of the river at this point is now entirely underground, and no trace of it can be seen at the surface.

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