Aldgate Bars
Agas MapList documents mentioning Aldgate Bars- A Survey of London
- Bethlehem Hospital
- Billiter Lane
- Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass
- Excerpts from The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Gazetteer (A)
- Gazetteer (B)
- Gazetteer (W)
- St. Mary Whitechapel
- Survey of London: Aldersgate Ward
- Survey of London: Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London: Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London: Spiritual Government of London
- Survey of London: Suburbs
- Variant spellings
- Whitechapel
The Aldgate Bars were posts that marked the eastern
limits of the City of London. They were located at the western end of Whitechapel and the eastern end of Aldgate Street. Stow makes no attempt to describe
them in detail apart from mentioning their geographic importance as boundary
markers (Stow). The bars were removed
in the eighteenth century (Harben).
The Aldgate Bars are represented on the Agas map by
two posts, one above the other, at the east end of Aldgate Street. There is no mistaking the landmarks because they are clearly
labelled
The Barres .
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.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. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]This item is cited in the following documents:
