Camomile Street
Names
- Camomile Street
- Camamile Street
Street/Area/District
- Camomile Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Camomile Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Cammomile Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Camomile Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Camomile Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Camomile Street
East out of Bishopsgate at 104 (P.O. Directory). From Wormwood Street west to Bevis Marks east. In Aldgate, Lime Street and Bishopsgate Wards (O.S.).
First mention: "Camamile Street" (O. and M. 1677).
The houses on the north side are on the site of the old Wall of London, and in excavations made for the foundations of warehouses in the street, a bastion and other portions of the wall have been found, partly of Roman construction. Described in Antiquary, X. 134; Journal, Br. Arch. Assoc. XXXII. 389; Price, pp. 5, 16.
Some portion at least of the street seems to have been known as Bevis Marks in early days. See Bevis Marks.
A tablet on the house at the north-east corner of the street marks the former site of Bishopsgate.
There is no indication as to the origin of the name, and the street seems to have been unnamed in Stow's time. It suggests that the land immediately within the wall was waste and unbuilt on, and was covered with that hardy herb, which springs up so readily on all unoccupied land to this day, or it may possibly have been named after an owner or builder.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Camomile str. is just within the City Wall, betn Bishopsgate W. and the Nly [northerly] End of St. Mary Ax, W. L. 150 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Camomile Street.] The places East of Bishopsgate Street, beginning at the Gate within, are as followeth;
Camomile Street, which runneth beyond Saint Mary Axe, but the part in this Ward goeth but a little beyond Cook's Court. This is a Street but of small account either as to its Buildings or Inhabitants. Clark's Alley, but ordinary, especially that part which leadeth to Camomile Street.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Camomile street, Bishopsgate street.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Camomile-Street, Bishopsgate,—the first on the R. near ¼ of a mile N. from Cornhill, or a few doors S. from Houndsditch, it leads into St. Mary Axe.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Camomile-St., Bishopsgate, is the first turning on the right hand, nearly a quarter of a mile northward of Cornhill, and opposite Wormwood-street, a few doors south from Houndsditch, and leads into St. Mary-Axe, nearly opposite Bevis Marks.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Camomile Street, Bishopsgate, from opposite Wormwood Street to St. Mary Axe. Follows the line of the old wall of London to the east, as Wormwood Street does to the west. In recent excavations for the foundations of some large warehouses in Camomile Street portions of a bastion and other vestiges of the wall were found; and in the early part of the last century, on taking down some houses in this street, a tessellated pavement was discovered, and 4 feet below it were funeral urns containing bones and ashes. A tablet on the front of the house at the north-east corner of Camomile Street records that here stood Bishops Gate.