Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . t-dyers,hat-lining and leather cutters, hat shag-makers,hat-tip makers, hat-bowstring makers, hat-furriers, Bermondsey.] HORSELYDOWN. 109 hat-trimming makers, &c, we must visit the dis-trict included between the Borough High Streetand lilackfriars Road. A glance at that curiousrecord of statistical facts, a London Directory,will show to what an extent this manufacture iscarried on in the district just marked out. It istrue that Bermondsey still contains one hat-factory,whit h has been characterised as the largest int
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . t-dyers,hat-lining and leather cutters, hat shag-makers,hat-tip makers, hat-bowstring makers, hat-furriers, Bermondsey.] HORSELYDOWN. 109 hat-trimming makers, &c, we must visit the dis-trict included between the Borough High Streetand lilackfriars Road. A glance at that curiousrecord of statistical facts, a London Directory,will show to what an extent this manufacture iscarried on in the district just marked out. It istrue that Bermondsey still contains one hat-factory,whit h has been characterised as the largest inthe world, and that Tooley Street still exhibits a and, agreeably to an Act of the 6th Geo. II.,r733> the district of Horsey-down, Horsa-d wn,or Horsley-down (so called from its having beenused by the inhabitants as a grazing-field for theirhorses and cattle), was appointed for the newparish. Elmes observes, very absurdly : Popularlegends derive its name from a belief that thehorse of King John lay down with that monarchupon his back, and hence horse-lye-doum; but as. MILL POND BRIDGE, IN 1826. sprinking of smaller firms; but the manufacture isno longer a feature to be numbered among thepeculiarities of Bermondsey. Passing from Snows Fields, under the railwayarches, by way of Crucifix , a name whichsavours of the olden time, we enter ArtilleryStreet, Horselydown, or, as it was formerly called,Horsey Down. The parish of St. Olaves havinggreatly increased both in houses and population,the commissioners for erecting fifty new churcheswithin the bills of mortality purchased a sitefor a church and cemetery, consisting of a field,which was walled in and called the ArtilleryGround, from the fact that the train-bands ofSouthwark used to practise therein. The churchwas accordingly built, and dedicated to St. John,250 the entire tract so called was, according to Stow,a grazing-ground, called Horse-down, it is moreprobably a corruption of that title. In speakingof the derivation of
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