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Cheapside. Coordinates: 51.5141°N 0.0937°W. Cheapside in 1909 (left), looking west and in 2005 (right), looking east. The church in the background of each is St Mary-le-Bow. Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.
Cheapside, also referred to as West Cheap, was a street and market dating back to the late ninth century. It was one of two great markets that may have been established during Alfred's reign (871-899) as part of an urban restoration project. In her book on the mercantile community of medieval London, Pamela Nightingale describes early Cheapside ...
Feb 10, 2024 · The bustling medieval Cheapside presented a spectacle of horseback travellers, carts, and pedestrians selling water or milk. The Great Conduit, a source of both utility and hindrance, brought fresh water into London and occupied the centre of the road. In 1290, the Eleanor Cross, built by Edward I in memory of his wife, joined the Great Conduit.
The house No. 73, Cheapside, shown in our illustration on page 343, was erected, from the design of Sir Christopher Wren, for Sir William Turner, Knight, who served the office of Lord Mayor in the year 1668–9, and here he kept his mayoralty. At the "Queen's Arms Tavern," No. 71, Cheapside, the poet Keats once lived.
CHAPTER XXVI. CHEAPSIDE—INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL. Ancient Reminiscences of Cheapside—Stormy Days therein—The Westchepe Market—Something about the Pillory—The Cheapside Conduits—The Goldsmiths' Monopoly—Cheapside Market—Gossip anent Cheapside by Mr. Pepys—A Saxon Rienzi—Anti-Free-Trade Riots in Cheapside—Arrest of the Rioters—A Royal Pardon—Jane Shore.
Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St. Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank junction, where it becomes Poultry, is Mansion House, the Bank of England, and Bank station.
The historic location. The seventh-century foundation of St Paul's stood within the Roman walls of the former Londinium.The routes leading from the Barbican or Cripplegate in the north down towards Queenhithe on the river, and from Aldgate in the east passing north of St Paul's towards Ludgate and later Newgate in the west, crossed at the junction of Wood Street with the western part of ...
