London’s Pocket Parks: St Olave Silver Street, EC2

This is a pocket park that sits next to the busy London Wall road, but still manages to look rather pleasant to sit in despite its location.From the name you’ve probably already realised, it’s the site of a former church that John Stow described as “a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments”. The first reference to the church, in the twelfth century, refers to it as “St Olave de Mukewellestrate”, and is likely named after King Olaf, later Saint Ola