Whitechapel
Agas MapList documents mentioning Whitechapel- A Survey of London
- Aldgate Bars
- Bethlehem Hospital
- Billiter Lane
- Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass
- Excerpts from The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Gazetteer (A)
- Gazetteer (B)
- Gazetteer (M)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Gazetteer (W)
- St. Mary Whitechapel
- Survey of London: Aldersgate Ward
- Survey of London: Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London: Parishes
- Survey of London: Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London: Spiritual Government of London
- Survey of London: Suburbs
- Variant spellings
Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the
Aldgate Bars from the east. Stow comments that
the street, like Aldgate Street, was
fully replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes, on eyther side(Stow). Whitechapel Street may have been another name for Aldgate Street (without Aldgate) (Harben). However, there is no indication that this was the case in 1598; in fact, Stow uses
high street(another name for Aldgate Street from the Aldgate Bars to Aldgate) and
Whitechapelindependently (Stow).
A small section of Whitechapel’s west end, though
not named, is drawn on the Agas map. It is found east of
TheBarresand runs to the edge of the map.
Whitechapel became a municipal district in the seventeenth century. It was in
this district that the 1888 Jack the Ripper murders took place (Harben).
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:
