Addle Street
Names
- Addle Street
- Addlestreete
- Adelane
- Adeistrete
- Addelane
- the lane leading from Aldermanburi
- Adelane
- Adellan
- Athelane
- Adlyngstrete
- Adlane
- Adellane
- Adlestreete
- Adle Street
Street/Area/District
- Addle Street
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Addle Street
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Adle steret
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Addle Street
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Addle Steet
- 1720 London (Strype): Addle Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Addle Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Addle Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Addle Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Addle Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Addle Street
West out of Aldermanbury to Wood Street at No. 43 and to Silver Street (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within.
First mention: "Addlestreete" (S. ed. 1598, p. 231). Earlier names and forms: "Adelane" or "Adeistrete," 1556 (Ct. H.W. II. 660). "Addelane," 33 Ed. I. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2451).
Described elsewhere in deeds relating to the same property as "The lane leading from Aldermanburi," 31 Ed. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2457 and 2459).
"Adelane," 4 Ed. III. (ib. 2452). "Adellane," 34 Ed. III. (ib. 2455). "Athelane," 1367 (Ct. H.W. II. 105). "Adlyngstrete," 1400 (Cal. P.R. H. IV. 1399–1401, p. 193).
It seems probable from the description of the property at the last-named reference, as situated "between the church of St. Mary at the end of Stanynglane end and Adlyngstrete," that this latter street is to be identified with Addle Street.
"Adlane," alias "Adellane," 2 Eliz. (1560). (Lond. I. p.m. I. 202). "Adlestreete," 1611 (Ct. H.W. II. 734). "Adle Street," Leake, 1666.
Stow says he does not know the origin of the name.
Inhabited by Joiners (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 90).
In 1633 ed. of Stow's Survey it is suggested that the name is derived from King Adelstane, who is said to have had a house with an entrance in Adel Street, and that in evidences the street is called "King Adel Street." There do not appear, however, to be any records giving this form of the name. The Saxon word "Atheling" means "noble," the word "ethel" = home, dwelling, etc. The earlier forms set out above suggest the derivation from the personal names "Ade," "Adel," or "Æthel," "Adda," all of which occur in early records.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Addle Street, betn Woodstr. W. and Aldermanbury (near the Church) E. L. 100 Yds. Stow says it was so called from Adelstan, one of the Saxon Kings Palaces formerly here; and in Evidences, says he, 'tis found King Adel street.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Addle Street. Lower down in Woodstreet, is Addle street; out of the which runneth Philip lane down to London Wall.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Addle-Street, Wood-Street, Cheapside,—at 43, the third on the R. and about ⅕ of a mile from 122, Cheapside, extending to 58, Aldermanbury.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Addle-St., Aldermanbury, extends from No. 58, Aldermanbury, to Wood-street, Cheapside.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Addle Street, between Wood Street and Aldermanbury.
Then is Adle Street, the reason of which name I know not.—Stow, p. 111.
Very probable it is that this church [St. Alban's, Wood Street] is at least of as ancient a standing as King Adelstane the Saxon; who, as the tradition says, had his house at the east end of this church. This King's house having a door also in Adel Street, gave name as 'tis thought unto the said Adel Street, which in all evidences to this day is written King Adel Street.—Antony Munday (Stow, ed. 1633).
The Saxon word Aþel or Adel is simply noble. No. 18 is Brewers' Hall. Next No. 23 was Plasterers' Hall.