Street sign for Honey Lane, located in the City of London, with a coat of arms, EC2 postcode, and a clear day with modern buildings and trees in the background.

Honey

Honey Lane in the City of London has existed for several hundred years, although the current location is about 140 feet to the east of where it originally was. The Great Fire of London destroyed a church named All Hallows Honey Lane, so the site then became the Honey Lane Market, which actually sold meat not honey. Other honey-named streets in London include a Honey Close, Honey Hill, three Honey Mews’ and another Honey Lane in Hounslow.

Clear glass jar filled with honey against a white background.

Honey

Over its history as a food, the main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, desserts, as a spread on bread, as an addition to various beverages such as tea, and as a sweetener in some commercial beverages. It’s also used to make the fermented beverage mead, by adding yeast to honey-water must and fermenting it for weeks or months.

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