OLD PLACE NAMES OF CHESTER
| Present name or location |
Former Names & Past Places of Interest. |
| Abbey Square ( Cathedral ) | Abbey Court ---- The Querester's Houses ( Houses formerly west side passage to the |
| Cathedral ), Abbey St. -- The Stamp Office ( Choristers School Abbey Square ) --- The Choristers Old School ( No11 Abbey Street ) ---- St. Thomas Chapel ( The Deanery ) The Parvise Apartment ( over south-west porch of the Cathedral ) --- Little Abbey Court ( Cathedral Close , Abbey Street ) ---- The Sprice, or Preese ( The Cloister Green ) | |
| Abbey Gateway | The Prison House ---- St. Thomas Court ( north side of Nortgate Street and adjoining the |
| Abbey Gateway ) ---- The Meat Shambles ( opposite the Abbey Gateway ) | |
| The Assize Courts | The Shire Hall or Hall of Hugh Lupus ---- Court of Exchequer ( south end of Shire Hall ) |
| The Refectory | The Old King's School |
| Bache Hall | The Abbey Corn Mill ----- The Beach Pool, The Bache Pool |
| ( now fiiled and enclosed opposite the entrance to Bache Hall ) | |
| Bridge St. Row East | The site of le Coruyserrowe 1356, C'orvisor's Row 1651, 'the shoemakers' row and Mercers Row 1656, - le Mcrcerrowe1503 the mercers row |
| Bridge St. Row West | Had no distinctive name in medieval times unless it be the location of le Sadelererowe, |
| Sadelerisrowe 1342, Sadelesrowe 1304, 'the saddlers' row') ------ Scotch Row ( from the cross to Commonhall Street ) | |
| Bridge St. north end | On the corner of Bridge Street and Water-gate Street, stood the Seldes-' the stalls'; |
| le Seldez | |
| c. 154O undecim selde vocat' selde sutorum in Bruuaestrete 1278 'eleven stalls called the shoemakers' shops'. In 1425 | |
| Bridge St ( Fountain ) | St Michael's Row ---- The Two churches --- St. Michaels Cross ---- St. Brides Cross ( St. |
| Bridget's Church was taken down 1828 rebuilt in 1827 opposite the barracks taken down 1892 ) | |
| Baths St ( east side ) | Edwards Court |
| Black Friars | Arderne Lane ----- Walls Lane |
| Barrel Well ( entrance ) | Gallows Hill ---- Prussia Blue Factory |
| Boughton | The Barres ( Gate ) taken down c. 1776 |
| Boughton Lane Hoole | St. Anne's Rake --- St. Annes Cross |
| Bunce Street | Bunnes Lane --- Bise Lane --- Bunse Lane ---- |
| ( Ran from Grovenor Rd to the Fox & Barrel ) | |
| Spital Boughton | St. Giles Well --- Hospital of St.Giles |
| The Castle | Julian Tower , Julias Caesar Tower |
| Castle Street | Castle Lane ----- S. Maries Lane ( between Castle St and St. Mary's Church ) |
| Castle Drive | The site of the Mustardhouses 1415 to 1597 Mustard makers at Chester are mentioned in |
| 1392-3 . In 1544 this property was called Glover-houses, a name persisting until 1713 and alternating with the name Skinners Lane and Skinners Houses. | |
| Canal St. | The Port-Pool Way ---- Dee Lane ---- West Dee Lane |
| ( now the Shropshire Union Canal premises ) | |
| Christleton Road | London road |
| Charles St ( Brook St ). | Foundry Lane |
| Cheyney Road | Chain or Chainy lane ( a lane formerly blocked by chains ) |
| Commonhall Street | Norman's Lane --- Common Hall Lane --- Shot Tower |
| Commonhall St | Pontz Lane ( Passage between Common Hall St & Pierpoint Lane ) |
| Corn Exchange Buildings | Manchester Hall |
| The Cross | The Conduit (Water House ) --- The Pillory --- The Stocks ---- Leen Lane |
| ( Between The Cross and God-stall Lane ) | |
| The Crane | The Ship-builing Yards |
| Cupping Street | Cupping Lane --- Little Cuppin Street |
| Curzon Park Woods | Billy Gamon's Rough |
| Duke St | Capel Lane ---- Capel Gate ---- Clayton's Lane ----- Claxton's Lane ----- Claverton Lane |
| Clavering lane ------ The Skinner's Hall ( Sth East Angle of Duke St ) | |
| The Deanery Field | Laudamus Field |
| Dee Bridge | Pin Manufactory ( House on river side, south-west ) Old Bridge ---- Tyrer's Tower |
| ( erected 1600 on the western tower of the Old Bridgegate taken down 1781 ) ------ Gateway (Handbridge end of Old Bridge taken down 1782 ) ---- Toll-Bar ( Handbridge end of Old Bridge ) | |
| Dee lane | The Barrs --- Paynes Lodge --- Peenes Lane |
| Eastgate / Foregate St | Bold Square ( named after the adjoining Mansion of Mrs Bold ) |
| Eastgate St.Row | Grosvenor Hotel Row --- Talbot Row ---- Royal Hotel Row |
| Eastgate St. Row South | Was le Cornmarketrowe 1343. |
| Eastgate St. | From 1279 to 1439 The Cornmarket |
| Eastgate St. Row north side | recorded often is Pepper Alley Row in 1894 - Pepper Alley in 1831 . |
| and the east side of | From the name of the alleyway towards St. Werburgh's churchyard, it is probably an |
| Northgate St. | instance of the modern use of 'pepper' for a rowdy person, a hooligan. The row has had |
| many names given it. It was the site of The Butter Shops from 1280 to 1590 - It was Baxter Row or Baker's Row from 1293 to 1502 - also le Cokesrows the cook's row from 1330 to 1449 . Pepper Alley Row belonged to Reginald de Thlene of Leen Lane. 1330 Another name for Pepper Alley Row is The Dark(e) Row 1591 to 1650 .- The earlier form of this name was le Dirke Loftez 1488, - le Darke Loftes 1541 | |
| Eastgate and Foregate St. | Watling Street |
| East end Eastgate Row | The Dark Entry --- Pepper Alley Row --- The Dark Row |
| Eastgate St. Row, North | Baxter Row --- The Country Bakers' Row --- The Butter Shops |
| Farndon Road Dee banks | Huntington Lane |
| Foregate St. | Forest Street |
| Frodsham St. | Cockfight Hill --- Canal Bridge |
| Frodsham St. | Coole's Lane -- Cowes Lane -- Warrington Street --Canal Street --- Cow lane Turnpike |
| Gamul Terrace | Gamul House ----- Boarding School Yard ---- Gamul Terrace ; site of the temporary |
| residence of King Charles, at the Siege | |
| Garden Lane | Stone bridge Lane ---- Cottage lane |
| George St | The Sandy Way ---- Old Poor House Lane ---- Gorst stacks ---- Henwaldes Lone |
| Grey Friars | Smith's Walk |
| Godstal Lane | lnodscall Lane --- Saint Goddestall Lane |
| Gloverstone. | First noted as Gloueriston it means ' the glover ' s stone' or ' the glovers ' stone'. It was the |
| name of an irregular polygon of ground outside the castle gate and north-west of St. Mary on the Hill churchyard, containing part of the top end of St. Mary's Hill, and a short street which led from Castle Street opposite Bunce Street to the Castle Ditch and the Outer Gate of the castle. Most of the area is now occupied by the castle barracks block. This patch of ground enjoyed the status of a manor, township and village in 1678. It was a township of Broxton Hundred. It was named from a large stone which stood in front of the castle gate and which marked the limit of the city jurisdiction down to at least 1879 | |
| Goss Street | Gos Lane ---- Gorst Lane |
| Grosvenor Park | Billy Hobby's field ---- The Headlands ----- The Headlands Walk ( Between Grosvenor |
| Park entrance and Dee Lane ) ---- Billy Hobby's Well ( Drinking Fountain , river side of Park ) The Earl's Eye ( Meadows opposite Grosvenor Park ) | |
| Handbridge | Paradise ( South side of Handbridge Quarry ) ---- Stile Lane , Sty Lane ( Greenway St |
| named after W.m Styles mayoe 1582-3 ) ---- The May - Pole ( Handbridge Institute there wer two May-poles on the river side at Sty Lane ) | |
| Hough Green | Toll-Bar |
| (GrosvenorRoad end ) | |
| Hoole | Flookersbrook ( A Hamlet between chester and Hoole ) ---- St. Anne's Lake , |
| Flookersbrook Pits ( opposite the Bee Hotel Hoole ) | |
| The Hermitage | St. James Chapel / St. James Cell ( the Anchorite's Cell , used by the tanners and |
| Cordwainers Guilds ) ---- Jacob's Well ( West of the Hermitage ) | |
| Heron Bridge | Iron Bridge , Higher Handbridge |
| Hunters Walk | Hunters Walk |
| Infirmary Field | Barrow Field ---- Lady barrow's Hey ---- Higginson's Field |
| St. Johns | Redcliff ( Southern face of St. John's Churchyard ) ---- Chapel of St. Anne , Cholmondeley |
| Hall ( North-east corner of St.John's Churchyard ) St. John's Dee ( River , Souters Lane to Suspension Bridge ) | |
| St. Johns St | Iremongers lane ---- St. Johns Lane ---- the situation of the Old post Office - |
| The Blossoms Hotel | |
| John Street | Was Irnmonger Strete 1228-40 'ironmongers' street' ; it settled down as 'St. John's Lane' |
| after vicus Sancti Johannis 1238. | |
| King Charles Tower | Newton Tower , Phoenix Tower ---- Rope Walk ( from Kaleyards to King Harles Tower ) |
| The sadlers Tower ( a few feet north of The Kaleyards taken down 1779 ) | |
| King St. | Barne Lane ---- Ox lane ( between King street and water Tower street ) |
| Linenhall Street west side | St. Chad's Lane |
| The Linenhall | The Yacht Field ---- The Monastery of the Grey Friars ( Franciscans ) |
| Linenhall Street & St. | Bereward Street ---- Lower Lane |
| Martins in the Fields | |
| Liverpool / Parkgate Roads | The Maypole ---- The Toll-House |
| ( corner of ) | |
| Little St John's St | Church lane |
| Love Street | Off Foregate Street, was Love Lane Edw. III (1574) the oldest professional trade of all. |
| Lower Bridge St | Lambs Row top of Lower Bridge St facing Pepper St ( fell May 1821 ) |
| The area of 'the beastmarket' in 1533. ---- Capel Lane, Capel Gate ( east side of the | |
| Bridgegate now destroyed ) ---- The Old Coach Row, Rotten Row ( Opposite Gamul Terrace destroyed ; stone colums and portions of upper houses existing | |
| Morgan's Mount | Gun Mount ---- The Mount |
| The Newgate | Wolf gate , Wolf-field Gate , St. John's Gate , Pepper Gate |
| Nun's Road | The Sally-port Steps |
| Pemberton's Parlour | Goblin Tower ---- Dill's Tower ---- Alcove |
| Queens Park ( river front ) | The Bottoms Field |
| Shipgate St. | Sheeps Lane ---- The Sheepegate --- The Shipgate ---- The-Hole- in-the-Wall |
| Stanley Place Mews | Dog Lane |
| Stanley Place | Grey Friars Croft |
| Tower Warf | The Canal Hotel , The Canal Packet House ( Canal Company's Offices ) |
| Union St | Barker's lane |
| St. Peters Church (South side) | The High Cross --- The Pentice (Court House South side & adjoining St. Peter's Church |
| taken down 1803) --- The Parsonage House ( Over St. Peter's Church Porch ) | |
| Souter's Lane | Souter's lane --- Souter's lodge --- Dee Lane --- |
| St Martins Church to | Nunnes Lane |
| Grosvenor Road | |
| The Newgate | Cock-pit Yard ---- The Cock - pit |
| Northgate St. Row ( East ) | Broken Shin Row ( 1817 and 1831) |
| Northgate St. ( West ) | The site of Iremonger Rowe 1330 - le Irnemongerrowe 1330 'iron-mongers' row . This row |
| also housed the Shoemakers Row 1740 / 1860 which adjoined St. Peter's churchyard. --- The Bridge of Sighs ( small bridge over the Canal 1793 ) | |
| Northgate St. | From 1533 to 1610. The Cornmarket ---- The Milk stoups |
| ( angle of Northgate and Eastgate Streets) ----- Cooks Row ( adjoining the Milk Stoups ) ---- The Commercial Buildings --- Broaken Shin Row ( Northgate Row East ) ---- Ironmonger's Row ( Under the Pentice ) ----- Shoemaker's Row ( Northgate Row ) ---- Smith's or Crump Passage ( Between nos 16 and 22 ) ---- The Old Exchange, The Wool Hall, Common Hall, St. Nicholas Chapel, ( The Music Hall ) | |
| Northgate Street ( East End ) | The Pentice adjoing St. Peters |
| Northgate Terrace | House of Correction |
| Northgate St. ( Upper ) | The Bache Way --- St. John's Street ---- Further Nortgate Street |
| Nortgate St. / Princess St | The Old Kings School, The Abbots House, The Bishops Palace |
| The Pentice adjoining St. Peters Church taken down 1780 | |
| Newgate St. | ' flesh-mongers' lane', ' butchers' lane', from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, becoming |
| Newgate Street in 1745 | |
| Paradise Row ( entrance ) | Pentice - on - the - Roodeye |
| Park Street (Newgate ) | Nine Houses --- Newgate Street |
| Pepper Street | Has never changed its name Peperstrete c.1258 - adjacent to it was venella de Pepurstreete |
| 1374 the lane of Peper Street 1458 ----- Pepur Street | |
| Pierpoint Lane | Perpoyntz Lane ----- Mill Lane ---- Dirty Lane ---- The Pulpit |
| Princess Street | Persones Lane ----- Pason's Lane |
| Queen St. (Neighbourhood ) | The Jousting Croft |
| Roodeye | Lowse Tower ---- Lousy Hill ---- Rope Walk ( East embankment ) ---- Lyniall's |
| Embankment ( Roodeye Cop ) | |
| Seller St (canal bridge ). | Lunt's Bridge |
| St.Bridget's Rectory, | Nuns Gaerdens |
| Barracks &c. | |
| St. Marys Church | The Mustard Houses ---- The Skinners Houses ( outside the walls ) |
| St. Martins in the Fields | The Crafts |
| Water Tower Steps | Cotton Mill , The City Baths |
| St.Werburgh Street | St Werburgh's Mount --- Bedpost Row ---- S. Wereburg Lane |
| St Werburgh Street | The Old Linen Hall |
| ( Abbey Buildings ) | |
| Seller St | Built 1818-1819 ; named after Alderman Seller |
| Souters Lane | Souterlode 1272 ' shoemakers ' |
| St. Olave Street | St. Olas Lane ---- Tooler's Lane ---- Tooloy's Lane |
| St Nicholas St. ( North end ) | Black Friars Lane ---- The Monastery of the Black Friars |
| ( Dominicans or Preaching Friars St. Nicholas street to the Watergate ) | |
| Trinity Street | Trinitie Lane |
| Victororia Road | Windmill Lane ---- Bessome Lane |
| The Wishing Steps | Erected 1785 ----- Watch Tower ( taken down 1826 ) ---- Little Windsor |
| ( foot of the Wishing steps ) | |
| Watergate - Eastgate & | High Street |
| Foregate St. | |
| White Friars | Was written Foster's Lane ( Fuster sadddle tree maker ) and Fustard's Lane I574 which is |
| reported as Forster's Lane, in 1656, ----- Custard's Lane ---- White Fryer's Lane --- The Dark Entry | |
| The Water Tower | New Tower |
| Water Tower St | Bagge Lane ------ Walls Lane --- |
| Watergate Street | On the corner of Bridge Street were the Stonesseldes which means 'shops or stalls made of |
| stone or built of stone'. By contrast with the stone-built seldae we find, just round the corner in Watergate Street but adjoining Bridge Street, le Staven Sildes., le Stavyn Seldes I508, two cellars and vacant ground on the south side of Watergate Street near the west side of Bridge Street; which were 'stalls built of, or furnished with, staves or poles'. | |
| Watergate Flags | Linenhall Field |
| Watergate St. Row ( South ) | Appears as le Fleshrewe Edward III - Flessherowe 1356 - le Flessheuer Rowe 1420 Fleshers Row 1578 ( the butchers row ) |
| Watergate St. ( North ) | Had no distinctive name in medieval times |
| Watergate St. | The King's Fish Board ---- Fleshmongers Row |
| Weaver's Street | St. Alban's Lane --- Weaver's Lane ----- The Sugar House ( Weaver's Street east side ) |
| White Frars | The monastery of the White Friars Carmelites ( north side ) |
From information by : Place-Names and Street - Names at Chester By JOHN McNEAL DODGSON 1968 - & - GEORGE W. HASWELL Chester Archaeological Journals - ( available Chester County Council Libary )
