Maiden Lane (Wood Street) Author James Campbell Encoder Melanie Chernyk Geo-Coordinate Researcher Catriona Duncan Copy Editor Joey Takeda Programmer Stewart Arneil Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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Maiden Lane (Wood Street) was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden (Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.

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 Removed old geo coordinates now superceded by GeoJSON. Changed title to better distinguish between this and other Maiden Lanes. Made minor changes to abstract/content to include the new location Great Distaff Street. Minor edit to abstract. (Citing Ekwall, I modiifed the number of potential streets sharing this name.) Added sourceDesc information for born-digital documents. Standardized respStmts for JENS1, MCFI1, and HOLM3 and added TAKE1 as Junior Programmer. Added XInclude for listPrefixDef in the header. Added abstract element and respstmt. Added global publicationStmt through XInclude. Eliminated superfluous catRef elements from the header. Added catRef elements based on the place/type values in the document. Put change elements inside revisionDesc into the correct (latest first) order. Added profileDesc containing document type information expressed in catRef elements. Converted @rend to @style, through XSLT transformation. Transformed existing byline elements into a respStmt element in the header. Left byline elements in place for the moment. Added front element with docTitle as part of a normalization process. This will be used as the definitive page title on rendering. Various updates and fixes made through XSLT, to standardize and normalize encoding practices. Data in the old INDEX1.xml was merged into this file in the form of a facsimile element and a listPlace in the body of the text. Various markup errors were fixed, and markup was normalized to some degree, to make it valid against tei_all. 19 July 2007 Melanie Chernyk marked as student project 5 February 2007 Melanie Chernyk updated byline format added "(Student Contributor)" to byline Maiden Lane (Wood Street)
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There were as many as four streets in early modern London called Maiden Lane (Ekwall 122). The lane labelled Maidenhed lane on Agas, located in Bread Street ward, ran east-west and was actually called Great Distaff Street. According to Stow, Distaff was a corruption of Distar Lane, which Stow says he read in record of a brewhouse, called the Lamb in Distar lane, the sixteenth of [Henry] the sixt (Stow 1:351). However, Harben and others have found this to be an error as the earliest form of Distaff was Distaue, not Distar (Stow 1633, sig. 2L6r; Harben Great Distaff Lane). Stow says that the street likely came to be called Maiden Lane from a sign located there, though he does not elaborate. Perhaps it referred to a tavern or store with a maiden as its sign. There was a need for an alternate name for the street because another street, also called Distaff or Distar Lane, ran south from Great Distaff Street or Maiden Lane (Stow 1:351-352).

Maiden Lane (Wood Street), the lane to which this page refers, was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood Street, to St. Martin’s Lane and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden (Bebbington 210). Stow offers no explanation of the street’s name, though he mentions that it was once called Ingenelane, or Inglane, which he also spells as Engain Lane (Stow 1:298, 303). Isaac D’Israeli, an English author and the father of nineteenth-century British writer and prime minister Benjamin D’Israeli tried to explain the name by postulating a statue of the Virgin here; a less genteel but more probable explanation would be midden heaps (Bebbington 210; see also Weinreb and Hibbert 505).

Important sites located in Maiden Lane (Wood Street) were St. Michael’s Church, the Waxchandlers’ Hall on the south side of the street, and the Haberdashers’ Hall on the north side. The Haberdashers Company was confirmed by Henrie the seaventh, the 17. of his raigne, the Cappers and Hat Marchantes or Hurrers being one Company of Haberdashers (Stow 1:298).

Though Maiden Lane (Wood Street) was once a cul-de-sac, it was extended to link with Southampton Street in Victorian times so that the queen’s carriage would not have to turn around after leaving her at the Adelphi Theatre (Weinreb and Hibbert 505).