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The Barge was a tenement building located in Cheap Ward. The structure was the remains of a medieval manor house.
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Located in Cheap Ward, The Barge was, in described as houses called Bukerelesbury
as it was formerly owned by
(Carlin and Belcher 65). Eilert Ekwall notes that [t]he wealthy and influential Bukerel family is recorded in London from about
and that the property had probably descended to [
(Ekwall 196). In as a manor or great house in a great stone building, then surviving [only] in part
(Carlin and Belcher 65). This Mannor or great house hath of long time béene diuided and letten out into many tenements: and it hath béene a common speech that when the Walbrooke did lie open, barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed vp so far, and therefore the place hath euer since béene called ye Old barge.
The
(Harben 46). Lastly, the houses [g]ave name to [the] street called Bokelersbury
(Carlin and Belcher 65), and, according to Harben, this name seems to have been formed early in the
(Harben 113).