Steelyard
Trading post of the Hanseatic League in London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Steelyard (disambiguation).
The Steelyard, from the Middle Low German Stâlhof (sample yard),[1] was the kontor of the Hanseatic League in London, and their main trading base in England, between the 13th and 16th centuries. The main goods that the League exported from London were wool and from the 14th century woollen cloths. An important import good was beeswax. The kontor tended to be dominated by Rhenish and Westphalian traders, especially from Cologne.
The Steelyard was not the only Hanseatic trading post in England. There were a number of Hanseatic factories on the English east coast, like the remaining Hanseatic warehouse in King's Lynn, Norfolk.