Walbrook Ward
Agas MapList documents mentioning Walbrook Ward- Dowgate Street
- Dowgate Ward
- Historical Personography
- Lombard Street
- London Stone
- Oxford House
- Simon Eyre
- Survey of London (1598): Candlewick Street Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Downgate Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Parish Churches
- Survey of London (1598): Table of the Chapters
- Survey of London (1598): The City Divided into Parts
- Survey of London (1598): Vintry Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Walbrook Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Downgate Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Walbrook Ward
- Variant spellings
¶Introduction
Walbrook Ward is west of Candlewick Street Ward. The ward is named after the Walbrook, a river that ran through the heart of London from north to south. The river was filled in and paved over so that it was hardly
discernable by Stow’s time (Harben, Walbrook (The)).
¶Links to Chapters in the Survey of London
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1603 (see below for excerpt)
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1618 (forthcoming)
¶1603 Description of Ward Boundaries
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 Survey.1 Each ward chapter opens with a narrative circumnavigation of the ward—a verbal
beating of the boundsthat MoEML first transcribed in 2004 and later used to facilitate the drawing of approximate ward boundaries on our edition of the Agas map. Source: John Stow, A Survey of London (London, 1603; STC #23343).
WAlbrooke warde beginneth at the Weſt
end of Candlewicke ſtreete ward. It
runneth downe Candlewick ſtreet weſt
towards Budge row. It hath on the
northſide thereof S. Swithens lane,
ſo called of S. Swithens a pariſh Church by London ſtone: This lane is repleniſhed on both the
ſides with faire builded houſes, and is wholy of Walbrooke warde.
¶Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map
Ward boundaries drawn on the Agas map are approximate. The Agas map does not lend
itself well to georeferencing or georectification, which means that we have not been
able to import the raster-based or vector-based shapes that have been generously offered
to us by other projects. We have therefore used our drawing tools to draw polygons
on the map surface that follow the lines traced verbally in the opening paragraph(s)
of each ward chapter in the Survey. Read more about the cartographic genres of the Agas map.
Notes
References
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Citation
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.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A suruay of London· Conteyning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that city, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Since by the same author increased, with diuers rare notes of antiquity, and published in the yeare, 1603. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. VVith an appendix, contayning in Latine Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. London: John Windet, 1603. STC 23343. U of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) copy.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. See also the digital transcription of this edition at British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written after 2011 cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
