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Grub Street could be found outside the walled City of London. It ran north-south, between Everades Well Street in the north and Fore Lane in the south. Grub Street was partially in Cripplegate ward, and partially outside the limits of the City of London.
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Cripplegate Ward is east of Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward, encompassing area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward is named after Cripplegate.
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Grub Street could be found outside the walled City of London. It ran north-south, between Everades Well Street in the north and Fore Lane in the south. Grub Street was partially in Cripplegate ward, and partially outside the limits of the City of London.
Alhough possibly meant a street infested with worms, or more probably it
was named after a man called Grubbe
(Weinreb and Hibbert 353). One of the street’s famous denizens was
In
of late yeares inhabited for the most part by Bowyers, Fletchers, and bowstring makers, and such like, now little occupied, Archerie giving place to a number of bowling Allies, and Dicing houses, which in al places are increased and too much frequented(Stow 2:79). Kingsford offers an explanation of the archery trades locating themselves in Grub Street:
It was convenient for bowyers, since it lay near the Archery-butts in Finsbury Fields(Kingsford 2:370).
Grub Street is now known as Milton
Street; it was renamed in