Eastcheap, London

E63921

historic street street

Eastcheap, London is a historic street in the City of London, famed in literature as the lively setting of Shakespeare’s Boar’s Head Tavern frequented by Falstaff and Prince Hal.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bucklersbury	1
Cheapside	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic street ⓘ street ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currentCharacter	commercial street ⓘ
currentUse	offices ⓘ retail units ⓘ
damagedIn	Great Fire of London ⓘ
fictionalAssociation	Boar’s Head Tavern ⓘ surface form: Boar's Head Tavern Prince Hal ⓘ Sir John Falstaff ⓘ
governedBy	Corporation of London ⓘ surface form: City of London Corporation
hasNameEtymology	derived from Old English "cheap" meaning market ⓘ
hasNearbyLandmark	All Hallows-by-the-Tower church ⓘ St Clement Eastcheap church ⓘ St Margaret Pattens church ⓘ The Monument ⓘ
hasNearbyUndergroundStation	Bank station ⓘ surface form: Bank tube station Cannon Street station ⓘ Monument tube station ⓘ
hasPostcode	EC3 ⓘ
historicalFunction	meat market ⓘ provision market ⓘ
historicallyKnownFor	alehouses ⓘ inns ⓘ taverns ⓘ
historicalParish	St Clement Eastcheap ⓘ St Leonard Eastcheap ⓘ
inLiteraryTradition	associated with boisterous low-life London culture ⓘ
locatedIn	City of London ⓘ England ⓘ Greater London ⓘ City of London ⓘ surface form: London
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	Corporation of London ⓘ surface form: City of London Corporation
mentionedIn	Henry IV, Part 1 ⓘ Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ
mentionedInWorkBy	William Shakespeare ⓘ
near	Cannon Street ⓘ Fish Street Hill ⓘ Gracechurch Street ⓘ King William Street ⓘ London Bridge ⓘ Monument to the Great Fire of London (with Robert Hooke) ⓘ surface form: Monument to the Great Fire of London
partOf	City of London ⓘ surface form: City of London financial district
roadClassification	A1213 ⓘ
runsBetween	Great Tower Street ⓘ Monument Street NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingFor	scenes in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap → fictionalAddress → Eastcheap, London ⓘ

City of London → hasDistrict → Eastcheap, London ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cheapside

Queen Victoria Street → hasJunctionWith → Eastcheap, London ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bucklersbury