Thames Street

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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. It passed through seven wards: Tower Street Ward, Billingsgate Ward, Bridge (within) Ward, Downgate Ward, Vintry Ward, Queenhithe Ward, and Castle Baynard Ward.

Archaeological finds suggest that it followed an old Roman road beside the river, from which it takes its name. The street today, twenty-five feet above the level of the Roman road (Harben), is divided into Lower Thames Street (the section east of Southwark Bridge) and Upper Thames Street (the section west of Southwark Bridge).

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Chalfant, Fran C. Ben Jonson’s London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1978. Print.
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]
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Jenstad, Janelle. Thames Street. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/THAM1.htm.

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Jenstad, Janelle. Thames Street. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/THAM1.htm.

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Jenstad, J. 2022. Thames Street. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/THAM1.htm.

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Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).
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- Jenstad, Janelle. The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody. The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop. Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
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- Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment. Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage. Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London. GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?. Janelle Jenstad Blog. https://janellejenstad.com/2013/03/20/versioning-john-stows-a-survey-of-london-or-whats-new-in-1618-and-1633/.
- Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
- Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
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Locations

Variant spellings

Documents using the spelling Lower Thames Street
- Galley Key
- Thames Street
Documents using the spelling Stock-fishmonger Row
- Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within
Documents using the spelling Stocke Fiſhmonger Row
- Survey of London (1598): Bridge Ward Within
Documents using the spelling Stockfishmonger row
- Survey of London (1633): Orders and Customs
Documents using the spelling Stockfiſhmonger row
- Survey of London (1598): Orders and Customs
- Survey of London (1598): Bridge Ward Within
Documents using the spelling Stockfiſhmonger Row
- Survey of London (1598): Queen Hithe Ward
Documents using the spelling Stockfiſhmonger Rowe
- Survey of London (1633): Queen Hithe Ward
Documents using the spelling Stockfishmongers Row
- Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within
Documents using the spelling Thame Street
- Huggin Lane (Upper Thames Street)
Documents using the spelling Thames
Documents using the spelling Thames ſteeete
- Survey of London (1598): Billingsgate Ward
Documents using the spelling Thames street
Documents using the spelling Thames ſtreet
Documents using the spelling Thames Street
Documents using the spelling Thames ſtreete
Documents using the spelling Thames streete
Documents using the spelling Thames Streete
- Love Lane (Thames Street)
Documents using the spelling Thames ſtréet
- Survey of London (1598): Castle Baynard Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Bridge Ward Within
Documents using the spelling Thames ſtréete
Documents using the spelling Thames Stréete
- Survey of London (1598): Queen Hithe Ward
Documents using the spelling Thames stréete
- Fish Wharf
Documents using the spelling Thames-ſtreet
- Survey of London (1633): Tower Street Ward
Documents using the spelling Thameſtreet
- Survey of London (1598): Orders and Customs
Documents using the spelling Thamestreet
- Articles for the Plague
Documents using the spelling Thameſtréete
- Survey of London (1598): Candlewick Street Ward
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Thames Street

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Variant spellings

Documents using the spelling Lower Thames Street

Documents using the spelling Stock-fishmonger Row

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