Neighbourhood · Sarrum and Its County
Ninefields
The largest and best-disciplined housing district of Sarrum, with a free surgery under Ellis Mow and an association that meets at the Ash and Barrow. Its cistern is the place where the names of the dead are read. Children born here fare worse than valley children but better than those of the Cinders.
Where the volumes speak of it
- Book IV › Chapter 4 — The Low City › 4.2 Water, Air, and the Cost of Living in It
- Book IV › Chapter 4 — The Low City › 4.3 Drink, Physic, and the Shabby Houses
- Book IV › Chapter 7 — What a Wage Buys, and What It Does Not › 7.2 The Bill of 4551
Powers seated here
- Ninefields association
- Ninefields mission room
- Ninefields surgical house
- Sarrum neighbourhood associations
In the Chronicle
Within Ninefields
Inn and venue The Ash and Barrow A Ninefields public house where all four functions of the Sarrum pub can be seen in one room. It opens at five for wharf men coming off shift, hosts the Ninefields… Inn and venue Cistern House The Cistern House is a lodging house in Ninefields, Sarrum, which rents rooms weekly at two shillings, and only to those who have someone to vouch for them. Mistress… Inn and venue The Cistern Tap The Cistern Tap is a public house in Ninefields, in the housing south of the wool quarter of Sarrum. It is one of four houses bonded by the Ninefields association and… Street and square Coffin Row Coffin Row is a street in Ninefields, in Sarrum, one of the narrow ways that run between the houses of that quarter. Building Fidler's Bakehouse Fidler's Bakehouse is a baker's shop in Ninefields where Josiah Fidler puts each loaf on the scale before the customer, checking it against the assize. Locals trust his… Building The Ninefields Cistern The Ninefields Cistern is the public tank from which the Ninefields district of Sarrum draws its water, supplied by one of the chalk-spring conduits. One September… Church and shrine Ninefields Mission Room The Ninefields mission room is one of Sarrum's eleven mission rooms and is kept by Sister Bridget Hale. She keeps a room book recording what households ask of it. The… Building Ninefields Surgical House The public surgical house of Ninefields, home of Surgeon Ellis Mow. Anyone may walk in; none is asked for payment or a name, and patients are taken as they arrive,… Road and way Ninepenny Row Ninepenny Row runs along the east side of Ninefields, the biggest and best-run district of Sarrum. It marks the smoke line, and every household that crosses it pays… Inn and venue Truelove's Truelove's is a tripe shop in Ninefields, in the housing south of Sarrum's wool quarter, run by the tripe-dresser Susan Truelove. It sells tripe with onions, cowheel,… 