West Fish Market

Ekwall notes that [a]nother name-form [for Old Fish Street] is Westpiscaria; ‘Piscaria’ or ‘Pisconaria’ meaning ‘the Fish-Market’ and the ‘West-’ affix being a distinction from the fish-market [on] [the London Bridge] (Ekwall 74). Carlin and Belcher suggest that Old Fish Street may have been called, in 1252, the west fish market (Carlin and Belcher 82).

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