Bennet's Hill
Names
- Bennet's Hill
- St. Benet's Hill
- St. Benet Paul's Wharf
- Paul's Wharf Hill
- St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf
- St. Benet's Lane
- Godliman Street
Street/Area/District
- Bennet's Hill
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): St. Bennet's Hill
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): St. Bennet's Hill
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): St. Bennet's Hill
- 1720 London (Strype): St. Bennets Hill
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Bennets Hill
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): St. Bennet Hill
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Bennet's Hill
North out of Upper Thames Street at No. 225 to Queen Victoria Street (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
First mention: Horwood, 1799.
Former names: "St. Benet's Hill" (Leake, 1666–O.S. 1880). "St. Benet's Hill" or "Paul's Wharf Hill" and "St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf" (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 229 and maps). "St. Benet's Lane," 1341 (Cal. Close R. Ed. III. 1341–3, p. 277).
Until 1890 it extended further north to Knightrider Street, and in Strype's time as far as St. Paul's Churchyard.
The northern portion to St. Paul's Churchyard is now called Godliman Street (q.v.).
Named after the church of St. Benet, Paul's Wharf.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
St. Bennets hill, a considerable str. betn the meeting of Knight Rider str. without Paul's chain N. and Thames str. S.L. 120 Yds, and from P.C. [St. Paul's Cathedral] S. 120 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
St. Benet's Hill, or Pauls Wharf Hill, takes its rise out of Thames street, and runneth up to Pauls Chain into Pauls Churchyard. It is a Place much pestered by Carts to the Wharfs, which makes it not so well inhabited, as otherwise it would.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Bennet's hill, Thames street, thus named from the church of St. Bennet's Paul's Wharf.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
St. Bennet's-Hill, Upper Thames-Street,—at 217, the second on the L. from Earl-st. and 15, St. Paul's-church-yard.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
St. Bennet's-Hill, Upper Thames-street, is the second turning on the left hand from Earl-street, Blackfriars, and leads into Godliman-street, Doctors' Commons, and St. Paul's church-yard. It receives it name from the church of St. Bennet's, Paul's-wharf, which stands at its south-west corner. The college of Doctors' Commons has an entrance from this hill, and the ancient college of Heralds is on its eastern side.—[See Doctors' Commons, College of, and Herald's College.