Lime Street
Names
- Lime Street
- Limstrate
- Lymstrate
- Lyme Street
Street/Area/District
- Lime Street
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Lime Street
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Lime Street
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Lyme street
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Lime Street
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - British Library): Lime Street
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - Folger): Lime Street
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Lime Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Lime Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Lyme Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Lyme Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Lime Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Lime Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Lime Street
South out of Leadenhall Street, at No. 159 to Fenchurch Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate, Lime Street and Langbourn Wards.
Earliest mention: "Limstrate," 12th century (Anc. Deeds, A. 5853). "Lymstrate," 32 H. III. (ib. A. 1470).
According to Stow the name is derived from the making or selling of lime there, and we certainly read in early times of a messuage there belonging to Gilbert, son of Fulk, and lands of Ailnoth the limeburner (calcerii) (Anc. Deeds, A. 11559, n.d.).
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Lime street, a very considerable str. (somewhat crooked) betn Leaden hall str. and Fanchurch str. (near against Filpot lane) S. L. 270 Yds. This str. (Stow believes) was called so, from being a place where Lime was Made, or Sold; but 'tis now mostly inhabited by Eminent Merchants and Traders, and the Ward had its Name from the str. Her is also Lime str. square, which, tho' small, is good Buildings, Inhabited as afore said, &c.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Lime Street on the South Side of Leadenhall Street leads into Fenchurch Street, and is for the generality taken up by Merchants, and Persons of Repute. The West Side of this Street lieth in Lime Street Ward; some part in Langborn Ward; there being in this Ward but the East Side, from Leadenhall Street Corner unto a late built Street, called Cullum Street from the Builder.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Lime-Street, Fenchurch-Street,—at 160, the first on the L. from 66, Gracechurch-street it extends to Leadenhall-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Lime-St., Fenchurch-street, is the first turning on the left hand going from Grace-church-street, and extends into Leadenhall-street. It derives its name, according to Maitland, from being a place where lime was anciently sold.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Lime Street runs from Leadenhall Street into Fenchurch Street, and was so called, as is supposed, "of making or selling of lime there." No. 15, on the west side, is Pewterers' Hall. In this street, in the reign of Charles II., in the house of one Dockwra (the originator), the Penny Post Office was first established. Lime Street escaped the Great Fire. A large house, No. 46 on the east side, had a pair of wooden folding gates, dated 1631. The chimneypieces were fine specimens of the work of that period. The house, which belonged to the Fishmongers' and Carpenters' Companies, was pulled down in April 1875. A large portion of the east side has been pulled down. On the west side, by Fenchurch Street, stood the church of St. Dionis Backchurch.
I told her in plain terms that I had a warrant to search from the Sherifif of Limbo. "How! from the Sheriff of Lime Street?" replied Mistress Wimblechin (for so she understood the word Limbo, as if Limbo had been Latin for Lime Street).—Middleton's Black Book, 1604 (Works, vol. v. p. 514).
Dr. Hawkesworth, author of the Adventurer, and the friend of Johnson, died in this street, November 17, 1773; and Frederic Reynolds, the dramatist, was born in it, November 1, 1764.