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In 1513 a wealthy widow, Agas Haringe, left land, tenements and gardens between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane to the Goldsmiths’ Company so that two poor goldsmiths’ widows could have 1d each a week. The goldsmiths built this and several surrounding streets on the land in the 1650s but hardly excelled themselves in originality naming them: Printer Street, East Harding Street, West Harding Street, New Street Square, New Street Hill, Great New Street and Pemberton Row. Most likely named simply as it was a new street, the prefix Little distinguishing it from the other new streets within the development.
