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A New History of London
… a market; and one being antiently held in the principal street of this ward, Cheapside, it was known by the name of … it from the market also kept in Eastcheap 1: the street now called the Poultry was the Poultry market, and Milk street, the milk market, belonging to Westcheap. Plan of …
A New History of London
… Book 2, Ch. 16 Coleman Street Ward CHAP. XVI. Coleman-street ward. Boundaries. Coleman-street ward obtains its name from the principal street in it, …
A New History of London
… Boundaries. The antient name of this ward was Cordwainers-street ward, from Cordwainers-street, now Bow-lane; which formerly was chiefly inhabited by … is bounded on the north by Cheapward; on the west by Bread-street-ward; on the south by Vintry-ward; and on the east by …
A New History of London
… XVIII. Cornhill-ward. Boundaries.; Extent. The principal street in this ward having been originally the corn market … on the east by Bishopsgate-ward; on the north by Broad-street ward; on the west by Cheap-ward, and on the south by … corner of St. Martin Outwich's church in Bishopsgate-street, and runs by several windings south-west as far as the …
A New History of London
… there. It is bounded on the east by Moorfields, Coleman-street-ward, Bassishaw-ward, and-Cheap ward; on the north by the parish of St. Luke, Old street; on the west by Aldersgate-ward; on the south by … to beyond Bridgewater square in the north; and from Jewin street in the west, to Backstreet, or Little Moorfields, in …
A New History of London
… Pickaxstreet, at the end of Fan-alley, and in St. John's-street: on the west, by bars in Holborn, at the east end of Middle-row; and at the west end of Fleet-street by the gate called Temple-bar: on the south we may … every Wednesday and Friday, for actions entered at Wood-street compter; and on Thursdays and Saturdays for those …
A New History of London
… The whole is divided into eight precincts. Thames street. Thames street, which crosses this ward from east to west, is the … Allhallows the Great, situated on the south side of Thames-street, between Allhallows-lane, and Hay wharf lane. It was …
A New History of London
… from thence to the stone wall on the west side of Noble-street is all in Aldersgate ward. Then from the said wall, … down to Windsor-house, or Nevil's-inn, and down Monkwell-street, on the west side, and by London-wall to Cripplegate, … to Newgate, including both sides of the way in Newgate-street, which terminates the north side of this ward. From …
A New History of London
… and all Smithfield, to the bars in St. John's-street. The north side of Holborn up to the bars at the east … the safety of the goods deposited there; and the narrow street or lane afterward built where the cloth was sold, … brick, with warehouses on each side, which ran under the street, and were designed to be used for the laying in of …
A New History of London
… that produced a rivulet or bourn, which ran down the street westward, and through Lombard-street as far as the church of St. Mary Woolnoth. Here … this stream spreading near the Spring-head, the contiguous street became so swampy, or fenny, especially about the …