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Born digital. Contains information about the ward and links to other parts of the project. 1603 transcription from Stow.
Bishopsgate Ward shares its western boundary with the eastern boundaries of Shoreditch and Broad Street Ward and, thus, encompasses area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward and its main street, Bishopsgate Street, are named after Bishopsgate.
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Bishopsgate Ward shares its western boundary with the eastern boundaries of Shoreditch and Broad Street Ward and, thus, encompasses area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward and its main street, Bishopsgate Street, are named after Bishopsgate.
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
The next is Biſhopſgate warde, whereof a parte is without the gate and of the ſuburbes from the barres, by S. Mary Spittle, to Biſhopſgate, and a part of Hounds ditch, almoſt halfe thereof, alſo without the wall is of the ſame Warde. Then within the gate is Biſhopſgate ſtreete, ſo called of the gate, to a Pumpe, where ſometime was a fayre wel with two buckets by the Eaſt ende of the parriſh Church of S. Martin Otoſwich, and then winding by the Weſt corner of Leaden hall down Graſſe ſtreet to the corner ouer againſt Graſſe Church, and this is the boundes of that Warde.
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