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Born-digital file containing information about the ward and links to other parts of the project. 1603 transcription from Stow.
Coleman Street Ward is west of Broad Street Ward. It is named after its main street, Coleman Street (Stow 1633, sig. 2B6r).
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Coleman Street Ward is west of Broad Street Ward. It is named after its main street, Coleman Street (Stow 1633, sig. 2B6r).
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
NExt to Chepe Warde on the North ſide thereof is Colemanſtreete Ward, and beginneth alſo in the Eaſt, on the courſe of Walbrooke in Lothbury, and runneth weſt on the South ſide to the end of Ironmongers lane, and on the North ſide to the Weſt corner of Baſſinges hall ſtreete. On the South ſide of Lothbury is the ſtreete called the old Iury, the one half, and better on both ſides towardes Cheape is of this Warde. On the north ſide lyeth Colemanſtreete, whereof the Ward taketh name, wholy on both ſides North to London wall, and from that north ende along by the Wall, and Moregate Eaſt to the courſe of Walbrook. And again from Coleman ſtreete weſt to the Iron grates: and theſe bee the boundes of this Warde.
The boundaries of Coleman Street Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.