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T1 - Billingsgate Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Tower Street Ward is east of Billingsgate Ward and west of the Tower of London.
Billingsgate (Bylynges gate or Belins Gate), a water-gate and harbour located on the north side
of the Thames between London Bridge
and the Tower of London, was
London’s principal dock in
Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.
One of the
The church of St. Magnus the Martyr, believed to be founded some time in the 11th century, was on the south side of Thames Street just north of London Bridge. According to Stow, in its churchyard haue béene buried many men of good worſhip, whoſe monumentes are now for the moſt part vtterly defaced
, including
As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until
Love Lane (Thames Street) was situated
within Billingsgate Ward (or Belingsgate
) (Hughson 91). Billingsgate Ward is two wards to the west of the Tower of London. The Agas map shows
that the lane goes from north to south—up to St. Andrew Hubbard and down to Thames Street. It runs parallel to the streets St. Mary at Hill Street and Botolph Lane.
Pudding Lane is most famously known as the
starting point of the Great Fire of 1666. Pudding Lane ran south from Little Eastcheap down to Thames Street, with New Fish Street
(Newfyshe Streat) framing it on the west and
Botolph Lane on the east. The only
intersecting street on Pudding Lane is St. George’s Lane, and the nearby parishes include
St. Margaret, New Fish Street, St.
Magnus, St. Botolph, Billingsgate, St. George, and St.
Leonard, Eastcheap. On Ekwall’s map it is labeled as Rother (Pudding) Lane
after
Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from
Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known as Great Eastcheap
. The portion of the street to the
east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known as Little Eastcheap
. Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.
Billingsgate Ward is west of Tower Street Ward. The ward is named after Billingsgate, a water-gate and harbour on the Thames.
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Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel is an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the
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Billingsgate Ward is west of Tower Street Ward. The ward is named after Billingsgate, a water-gate and harbour on the Thames.
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
BIllingſgate Ward, beginneth at the weſt ende of Towerſtreete warde in Thames ſtreete about Smarts key, and runneth downe along that ſtreete on the ſouthſide, to ſaint Magnus Church at the Bridge foote, and on the North ſide of the ſaide Thames ſtreet, frō ouer againſt Smarts key, till ouer againſt the north weſt corner of ſaint Magnus Church aforeſayd: on this north ſide of Thames ſtreete is ſaint Marie Hil lane, up to ſaint Margarets Church, and then part of ſaint Margarets Pattents ſtreete, at the ende of ſaint Marie hill lane: Next out of Thames ſtreete is Lucas lane, and then Buttolph lane, and at the North end thereof Philpot lane, then is Rotherlane, of olde time ſo called, and thwart the ſame lane is little Eaſtcheape, and theſe be the bounds of Billinſgate warde.
The boundaries of Billingsgate Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.