Tower Street Ward
¶Introduction
¶Links to Chapters in the Survey of London
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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).
The firſt Warde in the Eaſt parte of this cittie within the wall, is called
Towerſtreete Ward, and extendeth
along the riuer of Thames from the ſaid Tower in the Eaſt, almoſt to Belinſgate in the Weſt: One halfe of the Tower, the ditch2 on the Weſt ſide, and bulwarkes
adioyning do ſtand within that parte, where the wall of the cittie of old
time went ſtraight from the Poſterne
gate ſouth to the riuer of Thames, before that the Tower was builded. From and without the Tower ditch
Weſt and by North, is the ſaide Tower
hill, ſometime a large plot of ground, now greatly ſtreightned by
incrochmentes, (vnlawfully made and ſuffered) for Gardens and Houſes, ſome
on the Banke of the Tower ditch, whereby the Tower ditch is marred, but more
neare vnto the Wall of the cittie from the Poſterne North till ouer againſt the principall foregate of the
Lord Lumleyes houſe, &c.
but the Tower Warde goeth no further
that way.
Upon this Hill is alwayes readily prepared at the charges of the cittie a
large Scaffolde and Gallowes of Timber, for the execution of ſuch Traytors
or Tranſgreſſors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwiſe to the Shiriffes of London by
writ there to be executed. I read that in the fift of king Edwarde the fourth a ſcaffold and gallowes was
there ſet up by other the kinges Officers, and not of the Citties charges,
whereupon the Mayor and his Brethren complayned, but were aunſwered by the
king that the Tower hill, was of the
libertie of the cittie: And whatſoeuer was done in that point, was not in
derogation of the cities Liberties, and therefore commaunded Proclamation to
bee made, aſwell within the Citie as in the Suburbes, as followeth: For as
much as the ſeauenth day of this
preſent Moneth of Nouember, Gallowes were erect and ſet vppe
beſides our Tower of London, within
the liberties and franchiſes of our cittie of London, in derogation and
preiudice of the liberties and franchiſes of this cittie, The king our
ſoueraigne Lord would it bee certainely underſtood that the erection and
ſetting vp of the ſaid gallowes was not done by his commaundement, wherefore the King
our soueraign Lord willeth that the erection and ſetting vp the ſaid Gallowes bee
not any preſident or example thereby
hereafter to be taken, in hurte, preiudice or derogation of the franchiſes,
liberties, & priuiledges, of the ſaide cittie, which hee at all
times hath had, & hath in his beneuolence, tender fauour and good
grace, &c. Apud Weſtminſt. 9. die Nouemb. Anno regni noſtri quinto. On
the North ſide of this hill, is the ſaide Lord Lumleyes houſe, and on the
weſt ſide diuers houſes lately builded, and other incrochmentes along ſouth
to Chicke lane, on the eaſt of
Barking church, at the end whereof you haue Tower Street ſtretching from the Tower hill, weſt to St. Margaret Pattens church Parſonage.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
By the Weſt ende of this Parriſh church and chappell,3 lyeth Sydon lane, now corruptly called Sything lane, from Towerſtreete vp North to Hart ſtreete. In this Sidon lane diuers fayre and large houſes are
builded, namely one by Sir Iohn
Allen, ſometime Mayor of London, and of counſell vnto king Henry the eight: Sir Frances VValſingham Knight
Principal Secretary to the Queenes
Maieſtie that now is, was lodged there, and ſo was the Earle of
Eſſex, &c. At the North Weſt corner of this lane, ſtandeth a proper
parriſh Church of Saint Olaue, which
Church together with ſome houſes adioyning, and alſo others ouer againſt it
in Hart ſtreete, are of the ſaide
Tower ſtreete Warde.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
Then haue yee out of Towerſtreete,
alſo on the North ſide, one other lane, called Marte lane, which runneth vp towardes the North,
and is for the moſt parte of this Towerſtreet warde, which lane is about the thirde quarter thereof
deuided, from Aldgate ward, by a
chaine to bee drawn, thwart the ſaide lane aboue the weſt ende of Harte ſtreete. Cokedon hall, ſometime
at the South weſt end of Marte lane
I reade of.
A third lane out of Towerſtreete on
the North ſide is called Mincheon
lane, ſo called of tenements there ſometime pertayning to the Minchuns
or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Biſhopſgate ſtreete: this lane is all
of the ſaide Warde, except the corner houſe towardes Fenchurch ſtreete.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
And therefore to begin againe at the Eaſt ende of Towerſtreete, on the South ſide, have ye Beare lane, wherein are many faire
houſes, and runneth downe to Thames
ſtreete. The next is Sporiar
lane, of old time ſo called, but ſince, and of later time named
Water lane, becauſe it runneth
downe to the Water gate by the Cuſtome houſe in Thames ſtreete: then is there Hart lane for Harpe lane, which likewiſe runneth downe into Thames ſtreete. In this Hart lane is the Bakers Hall, ſometime the dwelling houſe of Iohn Chichley Chamberlain of London, who was ſonne to
William Chichley, Alderman of
London, brother to Willian Chichley,
Archdeacon of Canterburie, nephew to Robert
Chichley Maior of London, and to Henrie Chichley Archbiſhop of Canterburie.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
In Tower ſtreete, betweene Hart lane, and Church lane, was a
quadrant called Galley row, becauſe
Galley men dwelled there. Then haue ye two lanes out of Tower ſtréete, both called Churchlanes, becauſe one
runneth downe by the Eaſt ende of Saint
Dunſtans Church, and the other by the weſt ende of the ſame: out
of the weſt lane, turneth another lane, weſt toward S. Marie Hill, and is called Fowle lane, which is for the moſt part of Tower ſtreete warde.
This Church of Saint Dunſtone in
called in the Eaſt, for difference from one other of the ſame name in the
weſt: it is a fayre and large Church of an auncient building, and within a
large Churchyarde: it hath a great pariſh of many rich Marchants, and other
occupiers of diuerſe trades, namely Saltars and Ironmongers.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
Now for the two Church lanes, they meeting on the Southſide of this Church
and Churchyarde, doe ioyne in one: and running downe to the Thames ſtreete: the ſame is called
Saint Dunſtans hill, at the
lower ende whereof the ſayd Thames
ſtreete towards the weſt on both ſides almoſt to Belins gate, but towardes the Eaſt vp to the water gate, by the Bulwarke of the
tower, is all of tower ſtreete
warde. In this ſtreete on the Thames ſide are diuers large landing
places called wharffes, or keyes, for Cranage vp of wares and Marchandiſe,
as alſo for ſhipping of wares from thence to be tranſported. Theſe wharffes
and keyes commonly beare the names of their owners, and are therefore
changeable.Gap in transcription. Reason: […]
Neare vnto this Cuſtomers key
towardes the Eaſt, is the ſayd watergate, and weſt from it Porters key, then Galley key, where the
Gallies were vſed to vnlade, and land their marchandizes and wares: and that
part of Thames ſtreete, was
therefore of ſome called Galley Row,
but more commonly petty Wales.
¶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
- 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)↑
- I.e., Tower Ditch (JZ)↑
- I.e., All Hallows Barking (JZ)↑
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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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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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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:
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Billingsgate Ward
Billingsgate Ward is west of Tower Street Ward. The ward is named after Billingsgate, a water-gate and harbour on the Thames.Billingsgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Wall
Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by Stow ashigh and great
(Stow 1:8), the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spacesoutside the wall.
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The Thames
Perhaps more than any other geophysical feature, the Thames river has directly affected London’s growth and rise to prominence; historically, the city’s economic, political, and military importance was dependent on its riverine location. As a tidal river, connected to the North Sea, the Thames allowed for transportation to and from the outside world; and, as the longest river in England, bordering on nine counties, it linked London to the country’s interior. Indeed, without the Thames, London would not exist as one of Europe’s most influential cities. The Thames, however, is notable for its dichotomous nature: it is both a natural phenomenon and a cultural construct; it lives in geological time but has been the measure of human history; and the city was built around the river, but the river has been reshaped by the city and its inhabitants.The Thames is mentioned in the following documents:
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Billingsgate
Billingsgate (Bylynges gate or Belins Gate), a water-gate and harbour located on the north side of the Thames between London Bridge and the Tower of London, was London’s principal dock in Shakespeare’s day. Its age and the origin of its name are uncertain. It was probably built ca. 1000 in response to the rebuilding of London Bridge in the tenth or eleventh century.Billingsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Ditch
The Tower Ditch, or Tower Moat, was part of the Tower of London’s medieval defences. It was built by the Bishop of Ely William de Longchamp while Richard I was crusading in the Holy Land (1187-1192) (Harben). The ditch was used as a dumping ground for plague victim corpses, human waste from the Tower, and meat carcasses from East Smithfield market.Tower Ditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Posterngate is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Hill
Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution; there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hillfor the execution of such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of London
(Stow).Tower Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lumley House
Lumley House was a large house on the west side of Woodroffe Lane, north of Tower Hill. It was built bySir Thomas Wiat the father, vpon one plotte of ground of late pertayning to the foresaid Crossed Fryers
during the reign of Henry VIII (Stow). For Stow, the house was an important boundary marker for Aldgate Ward; it was the most southern point. However, he did not record anything about the house itself.Lumley House is mentioned in the following documents:
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London is mentioned in the following documents:
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Westminster is mentioned in the following documents:
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Chick Lane (Tower Street Ward)
Chick Lane ran north-south from Tower Hill into Tower Street. Stow confirms that it ranon the east of Barking church
(Stow). It is likely that Chick Lane also featured thediuers houses lately builded, and other incrochmentes
found directly above the lane on the west side of Tower Hill (Stow).Chick Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows Barking
The church of All Hallows Barking is in Tower Street Ward on the southeast corner of Seething Lane and on the north side of Tower Street. Stow describes it as afayre parish Church.
All Hallows Barking is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Street
Tower Street ran east-west from Tower Hill in the east to St. Andrew Hubbard. It was the principal street of Tower Street Ward. That the ward is named after the street indicates the cultural significance of Tower Street, which was a key part of the processional route through London and home to many wealthy merchants who traded in the goods that were unloaded at the docks and quays immediately south of Tower Street (for example, Billingsgate, Wool Key, and Galley Key).Tower Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret Pattens is mentioned in the following documents:
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Seething Lane
Seething Lane ran north-south from the junction of Hart Street and Crutch Fryers through to Tower Street. The lane, in Tower Street Ward, was marked by a church at each end; on the northwest corner stood St. Olave, Hart Street and on the southeast corner was All Hallows Barking. Stow describes the lane as one withdiuers fayre and large houses
(Stow).Seething Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hart Street
Hart Street ran east-west from Crutched Fryers and the north end of Seething Lane to Mark Lane. In Stow’s time, the street began much further east, running from the north end of Woodroffe Lane to Mark Lane (Harben; Stow).Hart Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Olave (Hart Street)
The church of St. Olave, Hart Street is found on the south side of Hart Street and the northwest corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded and built before the Norman conquest of 1066 (Harben). Aside from mentioning the nobility buried in St. Olave’s, Stow is kind enough to describe the church asa proper parrish
(Stow). Samuel Pepys is buried in this church.St. Olave (Hart Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mark Lane
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower Street. It wasfor the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart Street was divided between Aldgate Ward and Landbourn Ward. Stow says Mark Lane wasso called of a Priuiledge sometime enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten, so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).Mark Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Aldgate Ward
Aldgate Ward is located within the London Wall and east of Lime Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Aldgate Street, are named after Aldgate, the eastern gate into the walled city (Stow 1633, sig. N6v).Aldgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cokedon Hall
Little is known about Cokedon Hall, but Carlin and Belcher note that it was in existence around 1316 (Carlin and Belcher 69). Stow records the location of the site in noting that the hall wassometime at the South west end of Marte lane I reade of
(Stow 1:132).Cokedon Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mincing Lane
Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower Street. All of the street was part of Tower Street Wardexcept the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch streete,
which were in Langbourn Ward (Stow). Stow notes that the street was named aftertenements there sometime pertayning to the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete
(Stow). Stow also makes a definitive link between the lane and London’s commercial history.Mincing Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate)
St. Helen’s was a priory of Benedictine nuns located in Bishopsgate Ward between St. Mary Axe Street and Bishopsgate Street. St. Helen’s is visible on the Agas map with the labelS. Elen
written in the churchyard. Stow and Harben inform us that the priory was set up in 1212 by William Basing, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Stow; Harben).St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishopsgate Street
Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to Shoreditch. Important sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, a mental hospital, and Bull Inn, a place where plays were performedbefore Shakespeare’s time
(Weinreb and Hibbert 67).Bishopsgate Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street (often called Fennieabout) ran east-west from the pump on Aldgate High Street to Gracechurch Street in Langbourne Ward, crossing Mark Lane, Mincing Lane, and Rodd Lane along the way. Fenchurch Street was home to several famous landmarks, including the King’s Head Tavern, where the then-Princess Elizabeth is said to have partaken inpork and peas
after her sister, Mary I, released her from the Tower of London in May of 1554 (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 288). Fenchurch Street was on the royal processional route through the city, toured by monarchs on the day before their coronations.Fenchurch Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Beer Lane
Beer Lane ran north-south from Tower Street to Thames Street in Tower Street Ward. Stow notes that Beer Lane includedmany faire houses
(Stow).Beer Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Thames Street
Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.Thames Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Water Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Watergate is mentioned in the following documents:
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Custom House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Harp Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bakers’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Church Lane (Tower Street Ward)
Church Lane was a semi-circular lane that wrapped around the south side of the parish church of St. Dunstan in the East, in Tower Street Ward. Both ends of Church Lane led south off Tower Street.Church Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Petty Wales is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan in the East is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary at Hill Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fowle Lane (Tower Street Ward)
Fowle Lane, Tower Street Ward was later known as Cross Lane. Harben records it running west to east from St. Mary at Hill Street to Harp Lane (Harben, Cross Lane). Stow locates Fowle Lane, Tower Street Ward mostly in Tower Street Ward, though it is also in Billingsgate Ward (Stow 1633, sig. N3v; Harben Cross Lane).Fowle Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan’s Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Porter’s Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Galley Key
Galley Key was a port on the north bank of the Thames, east of London Bridge, and south of Lower Thames Street in Tower Ward.Galley Key is mentioned in the following documents:
Organizations
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Salters’ Company
Worshipful Company of Salters
The Salters’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Salters were ninth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Salters is still active and maintains a website at http://www.salters.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ironmongers’ Company
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
The Ironmongers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Ironmongers were tenth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.ironmongers.org/ that includes a history of the company.This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
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- St. Olave (Hart Street)
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- Beer Lane
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- All Hallows Barking
- Church Lane (Tower Street Ward)
- Crutched Friars
- Billingsgate Ward
- Andro Morris Key
- Seething Lane
- Tower Street Ward
- Tower Street
- Thames Street
- Dune’s House
- Fowle Lane (Tower Street Ward)
- Mapography of Early Modern London
- Quays on the Thames
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