Little Tower Hill
Agas MapList documents mentioning Little Tower Hill- A Survey of London
- Abbey of St. Mary Graces
- Dodding Pond
- East Smithfield
- Gazetteer (A)
- Gazetteer (B)
- Gazetteer (C)
- Gazetteer (E)
- Gazetteer (H)
- Gazetteer (L)
- Gazetteer (N)
- Gazetteer (R)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Historical Personography
- Hog Lane (East Smithfield)
- Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield)
- Survey of London: Coleman Street Ward
- Survey of London: Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London: Suburbs
- Tower Hill
- Variant spellings
Little Tower Hill was a common northeast of the Tower of London, between East Smithfield and the Minories.
According to Stow, it had become
greatly diminished by building of tenements and garden plotsby 1593, flanked to the north and west by
certaine faire Almes houses, strongly builded of Bricke and timber, and couered with slate for the poore(Stow).
The
Littlein its name is a modern addition that distinguishes it from Tower Hill to the west, beyond Posterngate. In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, Tower Hill and Little Tower Hill were known by the same name (Harben).
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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:
