A short street or passage going south-east from Cheapside to Walbrook at St Stephen Walbrook church. Now partly where One Poultry is positioned. It can be seen on this 18th century map.
Bucklersbury
Map
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- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
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References
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4 Annotations
First Reading
TerryF • Link
Bucklersbury (a street) peels off Cheapside toward the SE and Wallbrook, dead-ends into the [newly-built] Lord Mayor's Mansion House on the right side of this segment of the 1746 map of London. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Pedro • Link
Bucklersbury
Where Sir Thomas More lived, and where his daughter Margaret was born, was a famous place for druggists, apothecaries, herbalists, and dealers in 'simples'. (Book of Days)
Second Reading
Bill • Link
It is remarkable, that when the Plague reigned in London, Bucklers-Bury, which stood in the very Heart of the City, was free from that Distemper: The Reason given for it is, that it was chiefly inhabited by Druggists and Apothecaries, the Scent of whose Drugs kept away the Infection; which, according to my Notion, were so unnatural to the pestilential Insects, that they were kill'd or driven away by the strong Smell of some sort of Drugs.
---New Improvements of Planting and Gardening. R. Bradley, 1739.
Falstaff. Come, I cannot cog, and say thou art this and that, like a-many of these lisping haw-thorn buds, that come like women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklers-bury ...
---Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor.
Bill • Link
There is more information about Bucklersbury in the annotations of 30 July 1660: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…