Fleet Bridge Cistern
The Fleet Bridge Cistern, or the
Cistern at Fleet Bridgewas, according to Victor Belcher and Martha Carlin,
Built in 1478 by inhabitants of Fleet Street for receipt of waste water, carried above ground over the bridge(Carlin and Belcher 74). Stow records that
a Sestern was added to the Standerd in Fleetstreete, and a Sestern was made at Fleetebridge, and one other without Cripplegate in the yeare, 1478(Stow i. 17). The Fleet Street Conduit was made that same year (Harben 167).
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Carlin, Martha, and Victor Belcher.Gazetteer to the c.1270 and c.1520 Maps with Historical Notes.
The British Atlas of Historic Towns. Vol. 3. The City of London From Prehistoric Times to c.1520. Ed. Mary D. Lobel and W.H. Johns. Oxford: Oxford UP in conjunction with The Historic Towns Trust, 1989. Print. [Also available online at British Historic Towns Atlas. Gazetteer part 1. Gazetteer part 2. Gazetteer part 3.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ &nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. London: John Windet for John Wolfe, 1598. STC 23341. Huntington Library copy. Reprint. EEBO. Web.This item is cited in the following documents:
