Queenhithe

It ran lastly along the riverbank to join its eastern extremity.

The river wall had openings or gates at Dowgate and Bishopsgate, and probably at Queenhithe.

The length of the wall, without counting the riverside, was two miles and 608 feet.

This formidable wall was originally about 12 feet thick, made of rubble and mortar, the latter very hard, and faced with stone.

Presently, the sheds became houses with shops in front and gardens behind.

The roadway on the south side of this open space was called the Side of Cheap.

There was another open space for salesmen called East Cheap, another at Billingsgate called Room Lane, another at Dowgate, both for purposes of exposing for sale imports landed on the quays and the ports of Queenhithe and Billingsgate.

Those who have seen a marketplace in a French town will understand what these places were like.

Twenty-eighth.

Early to wait on my lord, and after a little talk with him I took boat at Whitehall for Redriff, but in my way overtook Captain Cuttance and Teddiman in a boat, and so ashore with them at Queenhithe, and so to a tavern with them to a barrel of oysters, and so away.

Captain Cuttance and I walked from Redriff to Deptford, where I found both Sir Williams and Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Earthwaites, and there we dine, and notwithstanding my resolution, yet for want of other victuals I did eat flesh this Lent, but am resolved to eat as little as I can.

After dinner we went to Captain Bodilaw's, and there made sale of many old stores by the candle, and good sport it was to see how from a small matter bid at first they would come to double and treble the price of things.

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And now for this week's podcast… Queenhithe is a small and ancient ward of the City of London, situated by the River Thames and to the south of St Paul's Cathedral.

The Millennium Bridge crosses into the city at Queenhithe.

Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient dock and a minor street, which runs along that dock, both of which are within the ward.

The ward's name derives from the Queen's Dock, or Queen's Quay, which was probably a Roman dock or small harbour, but known in Saxon times, later Æthelred's Hyde.