Cheapside

City. (EC2) Name derived from chepe, "a market," formerly called Westcheap. From the Poultry to St. Paul's, famous for its Ridings, its Eleanor Cross, its Conduit, and its Standard, the ancient Guildhall near by, and the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (Bow Church) , built in the reign of William the Conqueror. In a large house nearly opposite the church was Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and widow of the poet Shelley. (Wheatley's London Past and Present, vol. I, p. 387)

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