East Smithfield
East Smithfield is a district located east of the
City of London and northeast of the Tower of
London. Its name derives from
smoothfield ,with the prefix
easthelping to differentiate it from the Smithfield northwest of Cripplegate (Harben). As time progressed, it transformed from what Stow describes as a
plot of groundwith very few houses into a densely populated area by the mid-seventeenth century(Stow; Harben).
The Agas map shows East Smithfield in its older,
less populated state. It is located east of Little Tower
Hill and is north of St. Katherine’s
Lane. The district is identified by the label
Easte Smith .
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References
- Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. Print. Rpt. British History Online. Web. [Harben’s Dictionary is organized alphabetically. One can also do keyword searches for words that occur within entries.
- Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Print. Rpt. British History Online. Web. Subscr. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]
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