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Not the one we know and love but Ludgate Hill, Cheapside, Fleet Street, Leadenhall, old streets opposite the market around fish street, lost in the redevelopement in about 1902. Anybody know why the london link or are they generic names that crop up i other places?

Some are - Cheapside is old English for market place: locally, Bradford, Halifax and Barnsley also have them. If there were streets called Fish Street, Milk Street, Bread Street and so on, then they were named for the products sold on them. However Ludgate, Fleet Street and Leadenhall do seem to only exist in London, so they would seem to have been named for their London equivalents.

Leadenhall had a market and the Leeds version hosted a market - possible link?

I think fleet st in london ran over the course of the river fleet.

chemimike wrote: I think fleet st in london ran over the course of the river fleet. That's right, Chemimike. Fleet Street becomes Ludgate Hill to the east, towards St Paul's, and The Strand to the west, towards Charing Cross.

'Shambles' , most famously in York, means where the butchers and slaughterhouses were, there are several streets so named in Yorkshire, and used to be one in Leeds (Briggate) of course.

The 1847 map shows the shambles as bieng in Cheapside and Fleet street, between Briggate and Vicar Lane.