Bread Street Hill
Names
- Bread Street Hill
- Bredstreethill
Street/Area/District
- Bread Street Hill
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Bread Street Hill
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Bread streat
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Bread Street Hill
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Bread Street Hill
- 1720 London (Strype): Bread Street Hill
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Bread Street Hill
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Bread Street Hill
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Bread Street Hill
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Bread Street Hill
South out of Queen Victoria Street at No. 76 to Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Queenhithe Ward.
It was the southern continuation of Bread Street, and probably formed a portion of that street, which in earlier times extended into the parish of St. Nicholas Olave and into Queenhithe Ward.
First mention: "Bredstreethill" (S. ed. 1598, p. 286).
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Bread str. Hill, between the str. above [Bread str.] N, and Thames street S. L. 120 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Breadstreet Hill.] On Breadstreet hill, down to the Thames, on both sides, be divers fair Houses, inhabited by Fishmongers, Cheesemongers, and Merchants of divers Trades. …
Breadstreet Hill, a Place well built, and inhabited by good Tradesmen, mostly Wholesale.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Bread Street hill, Thames street.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Bread-Street-Hill, Upper Thames-Street,—at 201, it is continued by Bread-st. to 46, Cheapside.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Bread-St.-Hill, Upper Thames street, is at No. 201, and is continued by Bread-street into Cheapside.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Bread Street Hill, the southern extension of Bread Street, from Queen Victoria Street to Upper Thames Street. The burial-ground on the west side is that of St. Nicholas Olave, a church in the ward of Queenhithe, destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Dr. Dee's Letter to King James, 1603, was "printed by E. Short, dwelling on Brede Streete Hill, neere to the end of old Fish Streete, at the signe of the Starre."