Maps Of Old London

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Chapter of Westminster, are nothing but trees and fields. Pa.s.sing on quickly down the Strand, we find Temple Bar blocking the way to the City. This is the old Temple Bar, replaced after the Great Fire by the one much more familiar to us, which stood until 1878. A very fine ill.u.s.tration of the old one is given in Sir Walter Besant"s _London in the Time of the Tudors_, p. 245. This book should certainly be studied by anyone desirous of understanding the map. From Temple Bar past the back of St. Clement"s Church runs a broad road roughly corresponding with our new Kingsway. Further eastward the Fleet River still flows strongly down from its northern heights, crossed by many bridges, and just where it joins the Thames is Bridewell Prison. Further along, on the other side, is Baynard"s Castle, and in front of it, in the river, the Queen"s barge, with the royal arms of Elizabeth in the centre. Some way back from Baynard"s Castle a bridge crosses a street, and is marked "The Wardrop." This was in very truth the wardrobe or repository of the royal clothes! Drawing a line northward for some way, we come to Smithfield, where tilting is represented as in animated progress. Not far northward is St. John"s, Clerkenwell, and its neighbouring nunnery; to the west is the Charterhouse. Turning south again, past St. Bartholomew"s Church, we see the building of Christ"s Hospital, founded by Edward VI. This, it may be noted, is one of the buildings erected since Wyngaerde"s time. Then we come to St. Paul"s, shorn of its spire, with St. Gregory"s Church, quite recognizable, in front of it. There were continual edicts against building in the Tudor and Stuart reigns, for it was feared London would grow out of hand; but, in spite of this, houses have enormously increased since Wyngaerde made his survey. The battlemented wall still encloses the City, but hamlets have sprung up outside, notably at Cripplegate.
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