Norton Folgate

Names

  • Norton Folgate
  • Norton Falgate
  • Northern Folgate

Street/Area/District

  • Norton Folgate

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Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Norton Folgate

Beyond the City boundary.

See St. Botolph Bishopsgate.

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Norton folgate, a spacious str. betn Bishopsgate str. without S. and Shore ditch N. L. 260 Yds (and very broad) and the Bars is from the T L. NWly, 1550 Yds.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Norton Falgate, a street which extends from the end of Bishopsgate without to Shoreditch.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Norton-Falgate,—the N. continuation of Bishopsgate-st. to Shoreditch High-st. it commences at Spital-square on the R. and extends to Worship-st. on the left.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Norton-Falgate, the street so called is the north continuation of Bishopsgate-street Without, and extends to Shoreditch. It is also the name of a small liberty or manor, which belonged to the cathedral of St. Paul as early as the Conquest. This district being extra-parochial, the inhabitants support their own poor, and bury and marry where they please, but they mostly use a chapel, built by Sir George Wheeler, a Prebendary of Durham, for his tenants in Spitalfields. In this liberty there are also a small workhouse, a girl's school, and a free school for boys.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Norton Folgate, a street extending north from Bishopsgate Street Without to Shoreditch.