History of the Monument With Some Account of the Great Fire of London, Which It Commemorates: Three Pence; Edition, Price (Classic Reprint)

Design and Construction. HIS famous pillar, built to commemorate the Great Fire of London, stands in the small open square known as Monument Yard, on the east side of Fish Street Hill. This thoroughfare is described by Stow as the northern continuation of Bridge Street, commonly called (of the Fishmarket) New Fishstreete, where, he says, be fishmongers and fayre tauerns; on Fishstreete hill and Grassestreete, men of diuer trades, grocers and habardashers.
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