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Introduction

Broad Street Ward is west of Bishopsgate Ward. It is named after its principle street, Broad Street.
1720: Blome’s Map of Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.12
1720: Blome’s Map of Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.12

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Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Broad Street Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection.
Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Broad Street Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection.

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 bounds that 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).
The next is Brodeſtréete warde, which beginneth within Biſhopſgate, from the water conduit weſtward on both the ſides of the ſtréete, by Alhallowes church to an Iron grate on the channell which rūneth into the water courſe of Walbrooke before ye¦come to the Poſterne called Mooregate: and this is the fartheſt weſt part of that ward. Then haue ye Brodeſtréete, whereof the ward taketh name, which ſtretcheth out of the former ſtréet, from the Eaſt corner of Alhallowes churchyard, ſomewhat South to the pariſh Church of ſaint Peter the Poore on both ſides, and then by the ſouthgate of the Auguſtine Friers weſt, downe Throkmorton ſtréete by the Drapers hall into Lothburie, to another grate of Iron ouer the channell there, whereby the water runneth into the courſe of Walbrooke, under the Eaſt end of ſaint Margarets Church, certaine poſts of timber are there ſet up: and this is alſo the fartheſt weſt part of this ward, in the ſaid ſtréet. Out of the which ſtréete runneth up Bartholomew lane ſouth to the north ſide of the Exchange, then more Eaſt out of the former ſtréet from ouer againſt the Friers Auguſtines church ſouth gate, runneth up another part of Brodeſtréete, ſouth to a Pumpe ouer againſt Saint Bennets church. Then haue ye one other ſtréete called Three néedle ſtreete, beginning at the Well with two buckets, by ſaint Martins Otoſwich Church wall. This ſtréete runneth downe on both ſides to Finkes lane, and halfe way up that lane, to a gate of a Marchants houſe on the Weſt ſide, but not ſo farre on the Eaſt, then the foreſaid ſtréete, from this Finkes lane runneth downe by the Royall Exchange to the Stockes, and to a place formerly called Scalding houſe, or Scalding wicke, but now Scalding Alley, by the weſt ſide whereof under the pariſh Church of ſaint Mildred runneth the courſe of Walbrooke: and theſe bée the bounds of this 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

  1. The 1603 Survey is widely available in reprints of C.L. Kingsford’s two-volume 1908 edition (Kingsford) and also in the British History Online transcription of the Kingsford edition (BHO). MoEML is completing its editions of all four texts in the following order: 1598, 1633, 1618, and 1603. (JJ)↑

References

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MLA citation

Zabel, Jamie. Broad Street Ward. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/BROA3.htm.

Chicago citation

Zabel, Jamie. Broad Street Ward. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/BROA3.htm.

APA citation

Zabel, J. 2022. Broad Street Ward. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/BROA3.htm.

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TEI citation

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