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Distaff Lane was in Bread
Street Ward. There is some discrepancy between the Agas Map and the information in Stow. On the Agas Map, Distaff
Lane (labelled Diſtaf la.
) appears to run south
off Maiden Lane, terminating before it reaches Knightrider Street. Stow tells us, in his delineation of the
bounds of Bread Street Ward, that Distaff Lane runneth downe to Knightriders street, or olde Fishstreete
(1.345). Our map truncates Distaff Lane before Knightrider Street.
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Distaff Lane was in Bread
Street Ward. There is some discrepancy between the Agas Map and the information in Stow. On the Agas Map, Distaff
Lane (labelled Diſtaf la.
) appears to run south
off Maiden Lane, terminating before it reaches Knightrider Street. Stow tells us, in his delineation of the
bounds of Bread Street Ward, that Distaff Lane runneth downe to Knightriders street, or olde Fishstreete
(1.345). Our map truncates Distaff Lane before Knightrider Street.
Stow’s
In this Fryday streete on the west side thereof is a Lane, commonly called Mayden Lane, or Distaffe Lane, corruptly for Distar Lane, which runneth west into the old Exchange: and in this lane is also one other lane, on the south side thereof, likewise called Distar Lane(1:345). Slightly later in his description of Bread Street Ward, Stow reiterates and augments this information:
On the west side of this Fryday Street, is Mayden lane, so named of such a signe, or Distaffe lane, for Distar lane, as I reade in record of a brewhouse, called the Lamb in Distar lane, the sixteenth of(1.351). Kingsford’s note on this passage explains that Stow misread[1437 or 1438]. In this Distar lane, on the north side thereof, is the Cordwayners or Shoomakers hall H. the sixt
Distaflaneas
Distarlane. Kingsford also notes mentions of
Distavlanein wills of 1260 and 1295. After 1301, the spelling was consistently
Distaflane(2.356n.).
On the south side of Knightrider Street, opposite Distaff Lane, stood the church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. According to Stow, in 1396 or 1397 (20
(398).
See also: Chalfant 67.