Editing Cheapside (section)

==History==
[[File:Cheapside in 1823. Engraved by T.M. Baynes from a drawing by W. Duryer.JPG|thumb|Cheapside in 1823, looking west towards [[St Paul's Cathedral]]]]
[[File:Cheapside and Bow Church engraved by W.Albutt after T.H.Shepherd publ 1837 edited.jpg|thumb|A view of Cheapside published in 1837]]
[[File:Cheapside photochrom2.jpg|thumb|[[Photochrom]] of Cheapside, c. 1890–1900]]

Cheapside is the former site of one of the principal [[farmers' market|produce markets]] in London, ''cheap'' broadly meaning "market" in medieval English. Many of the streets feeding into the main thoroughfare are named after the produce that was once sold in those areas of the market, including Honey Lane, Milk Street, [[Bread Street]] and [[Poultry, London|Poultry]].

In medieval times, the royal processional route from the [[Tower of London]] to the [[Palace of Westminster]] would include Cheapside. During state occasions such as the first entry of [[Margaret of France, Queen of England|Margaret of France]] (second wife of [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]]), into London in September 1299, the conduits of Cheapside customarily flowed with wine.<ref>Williamson, D. (1986), ''Kings and Queens of Britain'', p. 75, Salem House, {{ISBN|0-88162-213-3}}.</ref>

During the reign of [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] in the 14th century, tournaments were held in adjacent fields. The dangers were, however, not limited to the participants: a wooden stand built to accommodate [[Philippa of Hainault|Queen Philippa]] and her companions collapsed during a tournament to celebrate the birth of the [[Edward, the Black Prince|Black Prince]] in 1330. No one died, but the King was greatly displeased, and the stand's builders would have been put to death but for the Queen's intercession.

In the early 1300s one of the armourers working in the area was [[Alice la Haubergere]], who owned an armour shop and made her role within the occupation part of her identity, which was unusual for the period.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-10 |title=The Women who Forged Medieval England {{!}} History Today |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/women-who-forged-medieval-england |access-date=2024-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910134319/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/women-who-forged-medieval-england |archive-date=10 September 2024 }}</ref>

On the day preceding her coronation, in January 1559, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] passed through a number of London streets in a pre-coronation procession and was entertained by a number of pageants, including one in Cheapside.

Meat was brought in to Cheapside from [[Smithfield, London|Smithfield market]], just outside [[Newgate]]. After the great [[St Michael-le-Querne|Church of St Michael-le-Querne]], the top end of the street broadened into a [[dual carriageway]] known as [[the Shambles]] (referring to an open-air [[slaughterhouse]] and meat market), with butcher shops on both sides and a dividing central area also containing butchers. Further down, on the right, was Goldsmiths Row, an area of [[commodity]] [[merchant|dealer]]s. From the 14th century to the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]], the eastern end of Cheapside was the location of the [[Great Conduit]].