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Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many
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Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many
Both the street and Cheap Ward through which it ran were named for the market located there. Cheapside Street or West Cheap was the site of a great medieval food market. West Cheap and East Cheap were the two principal market areas of London, both created during chepe
, which has also been spelled cepe
and cheop
, and which means a market, or bargaining place (
The importance of Cheapside Street increased greatly after All manner of victuals that are sold by persons in Chepe, upon Cornhulle, and elsewhere in the City, such as bread, cheese, poultry, fruit, hides and skins, onions and garlic, and all other small victuals, for sale as well by denizens as by strangers, shall stand midway between the kennels [gutters] of the streets, so as to be a nuisance to no one under pain of forfeiture of the article.
Bebbington 82
By
Also on Cheapside Street was Cheapside Cross, three stories tall, erected by decree of
The most sacred segment of the coronation processional route was along Cheapside Street. It was here that the most expensive and elaborate pageants took place, as can be seen in
The part of Cheapside known as becoming one of the City of London’s most prestigious shopping destinations
, according to the Cheapside Initiative project.
Eventually,
The infrastructure on Cheapside Street was destroyed in the Great Fire of