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A1 - Adams, Neil
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - Whitechapel
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
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Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the
Aldgate Bars from the east. fully
replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes,
on eyther side
(Stow).
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The Aldgate Bars were posts that marked the eastern
limits of the City of London. They were located at the western end of Whitechapel and the eastern end of Aldgate Street.
Aldgate Street ran slightly south-west from Aldgate until it reached a pump, formerly a sweet well. At that point, the street forked into two streets. The northern branch, called Aldgate Street, ran west until it ran into Cornhill at Lime Street. At an earlier point in history, Cornhill seems to have extended east past Lime Street because the church of St. Andrew Undershaft was called St. Andrew upon Cornhill (Harben 10).
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
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Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the
Aldgate Bars from the east. 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
high
street
(another name for Aldgate
Street from the Aldgate Bars to Aldgate) and
Whitechapel
independently (Stow).
A small section of Whitechapel’s west end, though
not named, is drawn on the Agas map. It is found east of
The Barres
and 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).