Goodman's Fields
Names
- Goodman's Fields
Street/Area/District
- Goodman's Fields
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Goodman's Fields
- 1720 London (Strype): Goodmans Field
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Goodmans Fields
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Goodman's Fields
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Goodmans Fields
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Goodman's Fields
East of the Minories Precinct. In 35 H. VIII. Roland Goodman, fishmonger, had a tenement, with a garden and three closes of land abutting towards the garden east and towards the late priory of Minoresses west and two parcels of pasture leased with it and together with it lying in the parish of St. Mary Matfelon and belonging to the priory (L. and P. H. VIII. Dom. S. XVIII. Pt. 1, p. 538).
In Stow's time a farm, and still represented as open ground in O. and M. 1677. But when Strype wrote in 1720, the Fields had been converted into fair streets with very good brick houses well inhabited by merchants-Mansell Street, Prescott Street, Leman Street, and Alie Street.
Now converted into places of business, but the former name of the site is recorded in Bacon's map, 1912.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Goodmans fields, contains several str. &c. betn Whitechapel Nly, and Rosemary lane Sly, and betn the Minories Wly, and the Pasture Fields Ely.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Goodmans Fields.] Near unto this Nunnery, or Little Minories, was a large Field, which belonged unto it, called by the Name of Goodmans Fields, (the Reason whereof was shewn before) which name it yet retaineth, although the Field is now converted into fair Streets, with very good brick Houses well inhabited by several Merchants, and Persons of Repute.