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Show "Cheap" Only in Name American visitors to London learn to their sorrow that Cheapside Is "cheap" only In name. Cheapside was the principal London street market, when retail trade was carried on around old St. Paul's cathedral. cathe-dral. The names of many of the thoroughfares leading Into the western west-ern end of Cheapside as, for Instance, Mill; street, Broad street, Wood street and Honey lane, are reminiscent of this period. "Cheape" was the old English name for market. In the Sixteenth centurj the form Chepessyd appears, from which the present selling originated |