The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel

notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel Pepys (of the Navy Board) and John Evelyn (whose home was Sayes Court)

Countless ships – among them the Mary Rose and Golden Hinde – were built

The excavated burials (647) are the largest sample from a Cistercian site in Europe and provide evidence for burial customs

and its contacts with Kent

The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel2010 Ian Grainger, Christopher Phillpotts Londons Royal Navy victualling yard, the first large scale naval food supply base in Britain, was founded in 1560 and closed in 1785, having proved inadequate for the needs of the expanding Georgian navy. A substantial part of the ground plan of the yard was recorded and combined with documentary evidence to identify slaughterhouses and yards, salt houses and pickling sheds, bakeries, coopers workshops,