Seething Lane
Seething Lane is a narrow street in the City of London . The street is in the southeast of the city in the Tower Ward . The narrow street takes its name from the grain that was once threshed in the street and that came to London from Tower Hamlets through the nearby city gate . Seething is an old English word for chaff .
Seething Lane is one of the few streets in the city that was not affected by the Great Fire of London. Seething Lane was home to many of London's notables. Also there are the Grade II listed St Olave Hart Street , one of the few surviving medieval churches, and the Grade II listed building of the Corn Exchange Chambers .
In Seething Lane lived John Allen, Lord Mayor of London at the beginning of the 16th century , Francis Walsingham , close confidante of Queen Elizabeth, the Baron Howard of Effingham and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex .
literature
- Percival Hunt: Samuel Pepys in the Diary University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1958 ISBN 0-8229-6050-8 pp. 40-45
