Step Into History
Walk London in 1600
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Step Into History · City walk
Shakespeare's London, 1600
London in 1600 is an overflowing, timber‑framed world at the height of Elizabethan energy: theatres and bear‑gardens crowd Bankside, the Thames carries a flotilla of wherries, and the City of London bristles with jettied houses and narrow markets. This walk moves from the rivered approach through Southwark and across Old London Bridge into the maze of streets, markets and quays that centre on St Paul's and the Tower.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of London as it stood in 1600 (“Tudor London”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Lambeth Marshes View
- 2. The Globe
- ↳ Main Stage and Tiring-House · interior
- ↳ Tavern Common Room · interior
- 3. Bear Garden, Bankside
- ↳ Bear Garden Gallery · interior
- 4. The Rose Theatre
- ↳ Rose Stage and Galleries · interior
- 5. Borough High Street
- ↳ Butchers' Shambles · interior
- 6. The Clink Prison
- ↳ Chapel and Wardrobe · interior
- 7. Southwark Stairs
- ↳ Wharfside Counting House · interior
- 8. London Bridge
- ↳ Nonsuch House Chamber · interior
- 9. Eastcheap
- 10. Billingsgate Wharf
- ↳ Fish Market Hall · interior
- 11. Tower Hill
- 12. Tower of London
- ↳ Royal Armoury · interior
- ↳ Menagerie Court · interior
- 13. St Katharine's
- 14. Leadenhall
- 15. Royal Exchange
- 16. Cheapside
- 17. Guildhall
- 18. Old St Paul's
- ↳ St Paul's Nave · interior
- 19. Paternoster Row
- ↳ Stationers' Workshop · interior
- 20. Fleet Street
- 21. Middle Temple
- ↳ Middle Temple Hall · interior
- 22. The Strand / Somerset House