The Only Public Buildings In This Ward Are The Churches Of
Allhallows, Bread Street, And St. Mildred, Bread Street.
23. Queenhithe Ward includes part of Thames Street, Queenhithe,
with the several lanes running southward to the Thames, Lambeth
Hill, Fish Street Hill, Five Foot Lane, Little Trinity Lane, Bread
Street Hill, Huggin Lane, with the south side of Great Trinity Lane,
and part of Old Fish Streets.
Queenhithe lies to the westward of the Three Cranes, and is a
harbour for barges, lighters, and other vessels, that bring meal,
malt, and other provisions down the Thames; being a square inlet,
with wharves on three sides of it, where the greatest market in
England for meal, malt, &c., is held every day in the week, but
chiefly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It received the name
of Queenhithe, or harbour, from the duties anciently paid here to
the Queens of England.
24. Baynard's Castle Ward contains Peter's Hill, Bennet's Hill,
part of Thames Street, Paul's Wharf, Puddle Dock, Addle Hill,
Knightrider Street, Carter Lane, Wardrobe Court, Paul's Chain, part
of St. Paul's Churchyard, Dean's Court, part of Creed Lane, and part
of Warwick Lane.
The public buildings in this ward are Doctors' Commons, the Heralds'
Office, the churches of St. Bennet, Paul's Wharf, St. Andrew,
Wardrobe, and St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street.
Doctors' Commons, so called from the doctors of the civil law
commoning together here as in a college, is situated on the west
side of Bennet's Hill, and consists chiefly of one handsome square
court.
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