Whitechapel
Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the
Aldgate Bars from the east. Stow comments that
the street, like Aldgate Street, was
fully replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes, on eyther side(Stow). Whitechapel Street may have been another name for Aldgate Street (without Aldgate) (Harben). However, there is no indication that this was the case in 1598; in fact, Stow uses
high street(another name for Aldgate Street from the Aldgate Bars to Aldgate) and
Whitechapelindependently (Stow).
A small section of Whitechapel’s west end, though
not named, is drawn on the Agas map. It is found east of
TheBarresand runs to the edge of the map.
Whitechapel became a municipal district in the seventeenth century. It was in
this district that the 1888 Jack the Ripper murders took place (Harben).
References
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Citation
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 Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents: