In its place three shops were built on the Cheapside frontage in 1687 , and the land behind continued to be used as a burial-ground and garden , which was enclosed with railings in 1712 . The ancient Cheapside plane tree grows there , and with the group of houses and garden survived the Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 . The garden is still maintained for public use . Here William Wordsworth was moved to write of " Poor Susan " who , hearing the song of a thrush in the busy London thoroughfare , was transported by the vision of a stream flowing through the fields and her solitary cottage in the countryside
Second Great Fire of London
Second Great Fire of London
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