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Puddle Wharf was a water gate along the north bank
of the Thames (Stow). Also known as Puddle Dock, it was located in Castle Baynard Ward, down from St. Andrew’s Hill. Puddle Wharf was built in
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Undergraduate Research Scholar, 2010–2011. Natalia Esling completed her BA honours in English with a major in French in 2011. She began an M.Sc. in Literature and Modernity at the University of Edinburgh in September 2011.
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Clergyman.
Playwright.
Historian and author of
Castle Baynard Ward is west of Queenhithe Ward and Bread Street Ward. The ward is named after Baynard’s Castle, one of its main ornaments.
The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in
The largest and wealthiest friary in England, Blackfriars was not only a
religious institution but also a cultural, intellectual, and political centre of London. The friary housed
London’s Dominican friars (known in England as the Black friars) after their move from
the smaller Blackfriars precincts in Holborn. The Dominicans’ aquisition of the site,
overseen by
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Puddle Wharf was a water gate along the north bank of the Thames (Stow). Also known as Puddle Dock, it was located in Castle Baynard Ward, down from St. Andrew’s Hill.
a small inlet(Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 668).just east of [what is now] Blackfriars Railway Bridge and formerly east of the mouth of Fleet River
The name of the site has been attributed both to its early
function and the name of a nearby
Londoner. This site served to water horses in medieval times. where horses vse to be watered, &
therefore being filed
. as also of one Puddle
dwelling there: it is called Puddle Wharfe
(Stow).
Puddle Wharf was built in
I shall nere forget him, when we had lost our child you know, it [the child] was straid almost alone, to Puddle Wharf and the criers were abroad for it(Beaumont 1613). This reference may suggest that Nell and George live near the Blackfriars theatre, yet have such an insular life that Puddle Wharf seems far away, or that they do not belong in the Blackfriars neighbourhood and that Puddle Wharf is thus out of their usual ambit.
A reference by Men drink so greedily
at the Popes Puddle Wharf
(Adams sig. P2r).
See also Chalfant 145.