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T1 - Langbourn Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Aldgate Ward is located within the London Wall and east of Lime Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Aldgate Street, are named after Aldgate, the eastern gate into the walled city (Stow 1633, sig. N6v).
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
Lombard Street was known by early modern Londoners as a place of commerce and trade. Running east to west from Gracechurch Street to Poultry, Lombard Street bordered Langbourn Ward, Walbrook Ward, Bridge Within Ward, and Candlewick Street Ward.
Lime Street is a street that ran north-south from Leadenhall Street in the north to Fenchurch Street in the south. It was west of St. Andrew Undershaft and east of Leadenhall. It appears that the street was so named because people made or sold Lime there (Stow). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).
Lime Street Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. The ward is named after its principle street, Lime Street, which takes its name from the making or ſelling of Lime there
, according to
Gracechurch Street ran north-south from Cornhill Street near Leadenhall Market to the bridge. At the southern end, it was called
New Fish Street
. North of Cornhill, Gracechurch
continued as Bishopsgate Street, leading through
Bishop’s Gate out of the walled city into the
suburb of Shoreditch.
The church is visible on the Agas map along Fenchurch Street. Before the
Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill
preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon
which the Roman city of Londinium was built.
Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature - thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in
Cornhill Ward is west of Bishopsgate Ward and south of Broad Street Ward. According to corne Market
once held there.
Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature - thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.
Langbourn Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. According to a long borne of ſweete water
which once broke out of the ground in Fenchurch Street, a street running through the middle of Langbourn Ward (Stow 1603). The long borne of ſweete water
no longer existed at the time of
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Parson of St. Gabriel Fenchurch.
Benefactor of Langbourn Ward.
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Husband of
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Langbourn Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. According to a long borne of ſweete water
which once broke out of the ground in Fenchurch Street, a street running through the middle of Langbourn Ward (Stow 1603). The long borne of ſweete water
no longer existed at the time of
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
LAngborne warde, ſo called of a long borne of ſweete water, which of olde time breaking out into Fenchurch ſtréete, ranne downe the ſame ſtreete, and Lombard ſtreet, to the Weſt end of S. Mary Woolnothes Church, where turning ſouth, and breaking into ſmal ſhares, rils or ſtreams, it left the name of Share borne lane, or South borne lane (as I haue read) becauſe it ran ſouth to the Riuer of Thames. This Warde beginneth at the Weſt ende of Aldgate Warde, in Fenne church ſtreete, by the Ironmongers hall, which is on the North ſide of that ſtréete, at a place called Culuer alley, where ſometime was a lane, through the which men went into Limeſtreete, but that being long ſince ſtopped vp for ſuſpition of theeues, that lurked there by night, as is ſhewed in Limeſtreete warde, there is now this ſaid alley a tennis court, &c.
Fenne-church ſtreete tooke that name of a Fennie or Mooriſh ground, ſo made by means of this borne which paſſed through it, and therfore vntill this day in the Guildhall of this citie, that ward is called by the name of Langborne, and fennie about and not otherwiſe: yet others be of opinion that it tooke that name of Fænum, that is hey ſolde there, as Graſſe ſtréet tooke the name of Graſſe or hearbes there ſolde.
In the midſt of this ſtréete ſtandeth a ſmall pariſh church called S. Gabriel Fenchurch, corruptly Fan church.
Then haue ye Lombardſtréete, ſo
called of the Longobards, and other Marchants, ſtrangers of diuerſe nations
aſſembling there twiſe euery day, of what originall, or continuance, I haue
not read of record, more then that
On the North ſide of this Warde, is Limeſtreete, one halfe whereof on both the ſides is of this Langborne Warde, and therein on the
Weſt ſide, is the Pewterers Hall,
which companie were admitted to bee a brotherhoode, in the
The boundaries of Langbourn Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.