Walbrook Ward

Introduction

Walbrook Ward is west of Candlewick Street Ward. The ward is named after the Walbrook, a river that ran through the heart of London from north to south. The river was filled in and paved over so that it was hardly discernable by Stow’s time (Harben, Walbrook (The)).
1720: Blome’s Map of Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. 
                © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.40
1720: Blome’s Map of Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.40

Links to Chapters in the Survey of London

1603 Description of Ward Boundaries

The following diplomatic transcription of the opening paragraph(s) of the 1603 chapter on this ward will eventually be subsumed into the MoEML edition of the 1603 Survey.1 Each ward chapter opens with a narrative circumnavigation of the ward—a verbal beating of the bounds that MoEML first transcribed in 2004 and later used to facilitate the drawing of approximate ward boundaries on our edition of the Agas map. Source: John Stow, A Survey of London (London, 1603; STC #23343).
WAlbrooke warde beginneth at the Weſt end of Candlewicke ſtreete ward. It runneth downe Candlewick ſtreet weſt towards Budge row. It hath on the northſide thereof S. Swithens lane, ſo called of S. Swithens a pariſh Church by London ſtone: This lane is repleniſhed on both the ſides with faire builded houſes, and is wholy of Walbrooke warde.

Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map

Ward boundaries drawn on the Agas map are approximate. The Agas map does not lend itself well to georeferencing or georectification, which means that we have not been able to import the raster-based or vector-based shapes that have been generously offered to us by other projects. We have therefore used our drawing tools to draw polygons on the map surface that follow the lines traced verbally in the opening paragraph(s) of each ward chapter in the Survey. Read more about the cartographic genres of the Agas map.

Notes

  1. The 1603 Survey is widely available in reprints of C.L. Kingsford’s two-volume 1908 edition (Kingsford) and also in the British History Online transcription of the Kingsford edition (BHO). MoEML is completing its editions of all four texts in the following order: 1598, 1633, 1618, and 1603. (JJ)

References

Cite this page

MLA citation

Zabel, Jamie. Walbrook Ward. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WALB2.htm.

Chicago citation

Zabel, Jamie. Walbrook Ward. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WALB2.htm.

APA citation

Zabel, J. 2022. Walbrook Ward. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/WALB2.htm.

RIS file (for RefMan, RefWorks, EndNote etc.)

Provider: University of Victoria
Database: The Map of Early Modern London
Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

TY  - ELEC
A1  - Zabel, Jamie
ED  - Jenstad, Janelle
T1  - Walbrook Ward
T2  - The Map of Early Modern London
ET  - 7.0
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/05
CY  - Victoria
PB  - University of Victoria
LA  - English
UR  - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WALB2.htm
UR  - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/WALB2.xml
ER  - 

TEI citation

<bibl type="mla"><author><name ref="#ZABE1"><surname>Zabel</surname>, <forename>Jamie</forename></name></author>. <title level="a">Walbrook Ward</title>. <title level="m">The Map of Early Modern London</title>, Edition <edition>7.0</edition>, edited by <editor><name ref="#JENS1"><forename>Janelle</forename> <surname>Jenstad</surname></name></editor>, <publisher>U of Victoria</publisher>, <date when="2022-05-05">05 May 2022</date>, <ref target="https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WALB2.htm">mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WALB2.htm</ref>.</bibl>

Personography

Locations

Variant spellings