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Wood Street ran north-south, connecting at its southernmost end with Cheapside and continuing northward to Little Wood Street, which led directly into Cripplegate. It crossed over Huggin Lane, Lad Lane, Maiden Lane, Love Lane, Addle Lane, and Silver Street, and ran parallel to Milk Street in the east and Gutter Lane in the west. Wood Street lay within Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Wood Streat
on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.
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.
There were as many as four streets in early modern London called Maiden Lane (Ekwall 122). The Maiden Lane to which this page refers
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.
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There were as many as four streets in early modern London called Maiden Lane (Ekwall 122). The Maiden Lane located in Bread Street
ward ran east-west, and was actually called Distaff Lane, a corruption of Distar
Lane, which Stow says he read in record of a brewhouse, called the
Lamb in Distar lane, the sixteenth of
(Stow 1:351). Stow says that the street likely came
to be called Maiden Lane from a sign located
there, though he does not elaborate. Perhaps it referred to a tavern or store
with a maiden as its sign. There was a need for an alternate name for the
street, because another street also called Distaff
or Distar Lane ran south from Distaff - or Maiden -
Lane (Stow 1:351-52).
The Maiden Lane to which this page refers
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.
Stow offers no explanation of the street’s name, though he mentions that it was
once called Ingenelane, or Inglane, which he also spells as Engain
Lane (Stow 1:298, 303).
Isaac D’Israeli, an English author and the father of nineteenth-century British
writer and prime minister Benjamin D’Israeli tried to explain the name by
postulating a statue of the Virgin here; a less genteel but more probable
explanation would be midden heaps
(Bebbington 210; see also Weinreb and Hibbert 505).
Important sites located in Maiden Lane were St. Michael’s Church, the Waxchandlers’ Hall on the south side of the street, and the Haberdashers’ Hall on the north side. The
Haberdashers Company was confirmed by
(Stow 1:298).
Though Maiden Lane was once a cul-de-sac, it was extended to link with Southampton Street in Victorian times so that the queen’s carriage would not have to turn around after leaving her at the Adelphi Theatre (Weinreb and Hibbert 505).