(St.) Nicholas Shambles Lane

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

Street leading from" St. Nicholas de Westmacekaria to the City wall, 1196 (Anc. Deeds, A. 2507).


"Via regia "from the gate of Newgate by the wall of the City to" vicum Sci Nicholai" by the friars minors, 3 Ed. I. (Rot. Hund. I. 404).

Lane of "S. Nicholas atte Flehsschameles," 1306 (Ct. H.W. I. 178).

An early name for the eastern end of the present Newgate Street shown in the "Plat of the Greyfriars," 1546-1617 in Trans., L. and M. Arch. Soc. V.421, in which it is called "Saint Nicholas flesh shambels."

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