Includes descriptions of the locale from the 1603 book A Survey of London by John Stow.
The area of Cornhill, the highest part of the city and site of a medieval grain market.
The extent of the ward is as described by Stow, since then many of the wards of London have changed, also Stow's boundaries often do not match those shown on old maps;
The Agas Map is good for visualising how London looked at the time: mapoflondon.uv... . Also Google comes up with detailed old maps of the individual wards.
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