Street sign reading 'Cinnamon St., E.I.' on a brick wall.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is featured on five of London’s street signs: this example in Wapping as well as a pair of Cinnamon Closes, a Cinnamon Mews and a Cinnamon Row. The name of Wapping’s Cinnamon Street first appears at the end of the 17th century and was related to a warehouse that stored the spice on the site.

Cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon spice

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic spice and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, biscuits, breakfast cereals, snack foods, bagels, teas, hot chocolate and traditional foods.

Various colorful spices on a dark surface with spoons and measuring cups.

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Colorful plastic magnetic letters scattered on a surface.

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Street sign indicating 'Clementine Close' on West 13th Street, with a blue and red no-through traffic sign on the right, mounted on a pole in front of a brick building.

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