Shipwrights street, Rotherhith.
Shitten alley, Chamber street, Shadwell.‖
Shoe lane, extends from Fleet street to Holborn.
Shoemaker row, 1. By Aldgate. 2. Black friars.
Shoemakers. See the article Cordwainers.
Shoemakers yard, Deadman’s place.
Shooter’s court, Basinghall street.
Shoreditch, extends from Nortonfalgate to the end of Old street. Shoreditch was anciently a village situated along the Roman highway, by the Saxons denominated Eald street, or Old street, and according to Maitland, owes its name to one of the predecessors of Sir John Sordig, or Sordich, who was Lord thereof in the year 1339, and not, as vulgarly supposed, to Jane Shore, concubine to Edward IV. This village was at a considerable distance north of the city of London, though it is now joined to it.
Shoreditch alley, Shoreditch.
Shoreditch church, at the north end of Shoreditch. See the article St. Leonard Shoreditch.